The Redwood gazette., 1936-12-10
z Sleepy Eye
MenKilled in
Car Accident
THIRD BADLY HURT AS
TRUCK RAMS CAR
ON BRIDGE


ked highway four south or toWn
Thursday evening, claiming the
lives of two men and severely m
turing another.
KILLED in the accident were
Conrad Weiss, AZ, Stark township
farmer and Victor Kleinschmldt,
18. son of Mrs. Lillian klelnscn-
midi four and one-half miles
south of town. Ben Schumacner
of Leavenworth was severely N
i,1red but has good chance OF re-
covery.
The tragedy, according to de-
cision reached by coronerS jury
Friday afternoon, came as result
off a collision between heavny
loaded Ford Truck driven Dy re-
lix Hillesheim and a Ford sedan
owned by Ben Schumacner'
which was stalled and parked on
the Windhorn bridge. Accom-
nanyins Hillesheim in the truck
was his hired man, Ed MeldL
Although the stories as told py
HiIlesheim and his hired man
conf1icted with those told by hay
Kleinschmidt, brother OF VICTOR,
and Sylvester Soukup, who also
witnessed the crash, the jury De.
lieyed that Hillesheim shouio
have exercised more caution.
Many Testify
Testimony of IA people who ell
ther witnessed or arrived after
the accident was taken at the m
quest which lasted all afternoon
and evening.
Prior to the inquest at the Buen-
ger Undertaking parlors the jury,
comprised of j. r. Hauser, Ru-
dolph Jensen, Joseph Koessler, 3.
E.. Sauter, N. D. Underhlu ana
Earl Meyer went to the scene OF
the accident to better acqualnt
themselves with the situation.
DIR. A. P. Goblirsch, who at
tended the Kleinschmidt lad, stat
ed that he first saw him in the car
which brought him to town. The
youth was taken to the ParkvleW
hospital and a short time later
was taken by ambulance to New
Ulm. His life ebbed, however,
before they reached the hospital.
Several ribs had been fractured
and had punctured the lungs,
which together with shock and
hemorrhages caused death.
Coroner G. E. Reineke testified
that he arrived at the scene short
Iy after $50. The Ford belonging
to Schumacher, he said, and the
Weiss truck were interlocked and
Weiss, who apparently was killed
instantly, was lying beneath the
Schumacher car. The coroner said
he had a severe injury over his
right eye, bad bruises on the nose
and chest, two cuts on the fore
head, fracture of three ribs above
the heart, two bruises over the pit
of the stomach, large bruises on
his back and under his right arm
and fracture of his right knee
below the joint. His face was
scalded with hot water and al
cohol which evidently came from
the radiator of the Schumacher
car.
The Ford was driven under
meath the rear of the truck and
it appeared tllat the Ford had
been hit in the rear, he stated.
Summon Garagemen
Peter Fischer and William
Ruegger testified that they had
inspected the brakes on the Hille-
shiem Ford truck and found them
to be satisfactory. The grill on
the truck, they said was smashed.
At that point in the proceedings
Felix HilleSheim was called, but
did not testify upon advice of his
attorney, Henry Flor. He did,
however, later.
Ray Kleinschmidt, who with
Sylvester Soukup and Victor
Kleinschmidt were saving wood
east of the river bridge, said that
the three were attracted to the
bridge when they heard crash.
This, it developed, occurred when
a car driven by Donald Schiller
collided with the Schumacher car,
which was stalled on the bridge.
After Schiller had helped Schu-
macher push his car to the side,
he continued on his way and was
followed by Otto Sellner, who al
so happened along after the acci-
dent.
Weiss, it appears, approached
with his truck, and was about to
pull Schumacher's car off the
bridge when the fatal crash oc-
Cured.
Kleinschmidt said his brother
and Schumacher, seeing the Hill
lesheim truck coming down the
hill at speed he estimated at SO
miles per hour, tried to signal for
the driver to stop. Hillesheim's
truck, he said. hit his brother and
Schumacher, throwing his brother
approximately 13 feet. Victor,
he said was lying about 10 feet
behind the Schumacher car, while
Schumacher lay few feet from
him.
Schumacher's car had been
pushed beneath the Weiss truck,
indicating that in the crash it had
been pushed forward killing
Weiss who apparently had been
standing between the two cars.
Continuing with his testimony
Ray Kleinschmidt said that after
the accident he asked Hillesheim
to take the injured men to town,
but he refused. He then got into
the truck, backed up, and drove
away. Another man came along q
short time later and took the men
to town.
Sylvester Soulxup gave testi-
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