The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-07-17

more of road to the north to the
Henry Sethre farm, declines very
gently to the dip. Below, or south
of the dip, the road still declines
but instead of being almost level,
as it is above the little hill, there
7 a series of pronounced undul-
atoms with dips between large
enough to conceal a car.
Fate had timed and speeded the
cars exactly right to keep them
hidden from each other until the
last moment and to bring them
together at a spot which well
thought out design could not have
made a more cunning trap. A
place where, with the stage set
right a tragedy was virtually un-
avoidable, yet where, with due
precaution on the part of both
drivers, accidents r easily avoid
ed. There are no pronounced
tracks or ruts. The road is fairly
good clear across and is plenty
wide for passing if each keeps to
the right. 1t was on this road
less than a mile from this spot
that Bob White met death in a
car accident in July, 1929.
Just what each driver did after
sighting each other is impossible
to establish. Indications + that
the cars came together in a half
way front to front crash neal the
top of the hill. Both cars were
smashed into a mass Of ~wreckage.
Vernon Cave was riding in a
box on the e a of the Ford with
Myers and Fee and was thrown
with great force to the side of the
ditch. The skull was deeply dent
ed from contact with a small
stone. Hanson was in the front
seat with Francis Cave who was
seriously but not critically injur-
ed and was taken to the Ferguson
hospital here.
Howard Wood, %, driving, and
his mother yer in the front seat
of the Hudson and Earl was in
the rear seat. Mrs. Wood was
severely cut and bruised but was
able to attend the investigation
held Saturday evening.
The Wood boys and Hanson,
Fee and Myers all suffered slight
injuries. Francis Cave was in
condition to be taken home Tues
day. Victor Cave, it is said,
brought a horse to Wolf Point in
tending to enter it in some of the
races. His father decided it was
too dangerous and took the horse
home. The father seemed to have
a premonition of a fatal accident.
investigation
A coroner's Investigation was
held Saturday evening at which
time about a dozen witnesses
we're examined. The verdict of
the jury was to the effect that the
accident was unavoidable and that
no blame attached to the driver
Of either car. The jury was com
posed of Charles Gordon, Ed.
Nichol, John Mcleod, Fred Hert-
ing, Chas. Warmbrod and A. C.
Honn. Frank Catlin, deputy coun-
ty attorney questioned the witness
ses.
Both Howard Wood and Leonard
Hanson, testified that the Wood
ear was going at between 40 and
As miles an hour. The Cave car,
climbing the little knoll, was not
going fast. They also agreed that
the collision was almost directly
head on. Hanson was rendered un-
conscious by the crash and did not
know what happened Immediately
after. Ernest Fee told of Hanson
being under the car, Joe Myers ly-
ing in the middle of the road and
Vernon Cave lying beside the
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head up and tried to get him to
speak and when he found he could
MT do that ne tried to revive
Myers. He said that he did not
see the approaching car as he and
Myers and Vernon Cave were sit
ting in a box on the back of the
and were riding backward,
but that as it was a one-track road,
he assumed that both ears were
in that track.
Testimony showed that the Cave
boy was alive when they started
to bring him to town, but that he
died or the way in. DR.. DeWane
testified that he was dead when
they brought him in. He said
here was a depression of from
0neIhalf to three-quarters of an
nch deep in the back of the boys
lead and that this injury was suf-
icient to have caused death.
Francis Cave and Joe Myers
we're unable to be present at the
Investigation, but the jury went to
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