The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-01-03
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ONE DEATH EVERY Is MINUTES
LAST YEAR FROM CAR CRASHES
Motorcar Accidents of Last Week
$4,000 IN DAMAGES AWARDED
FOR DEATH OF BOY IN CRASH

FOR DEATH OF BOY IN CRASH
A jury in federal district court at
Havre returned a verdict in which
damages of $4,000 were awarded to
James L. Taulbee of Poison against
the Great Northern Railway Co. for
train-autO collision in 1894 at WiOta
junction. United States district
Judge James Baldwin presided at
the hearing Of the suit.
William Charles Campbell IA, Great
Falls, died as the result of injuries re-
ceived when a truck in which he was
a passenger collided with another at
Great Falls. He was a student at the
Junior high school.
Clifford Conlin, member of a Saco
dance orchestral, was killed, and his
two companions, Lyle Larson of Malta
and Norman Anderson of Masefield:
Sask.. were seriously injured when a
highway near Bowdoin lake.
The three were OF their way to Malta
from Cole, where Conlin and Larson
had played for a dance.
Mrs. Fred Carlson, Al, mother of
three children, is dead and her US;
condition at a Butte hospital as a
result of an automobile accident which
occurred on the Divide WiSdom high
way near Dewey.
Mrs. Carlson was killed instantly
when the automobile plunged off q
75-foot embankment into the Big Hole
the automobile while her husband was
thrown clear and half way across the
~ice-covered stream.
Arthur Semingsen, %, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Sid SemingSen of Conrad,
died at a Conrad hospital as the result
of injuries received in an automobile
accident six miles north of Conrad,
when the a in which he and Will and
Ed Bell were riding collided with q
truck bearing a Toole county license.
The two Bell boys were seriously in
jured. The truck was overturned, but
the driver was unhurt.-
Gail Nelson, Is, of Ennis died in q
Bozeman hospital from injuries re-
ceived when the a he was driving
left the road west of Bozeman, landing
in a roadside borrow pit. His com-
panion, j. H. Pankey Jr, 80, teacher
in the Ennis schools, is in a critical
condition.
Nelson suffered a fractured skull,
a crushed chest and other injuries.
Thomas D. Schan, blind Minnesota
republican senator, died as the result
of injuries received in an automobile
accident near Washington, D. G.
Gertrude Neyenhause Of Shelby was
injured when the car in which she and
three companions were riding was
struck by another a driven by. Al
Laprairie. She Is in a critical condition
at a Shelby hospital.
William Ray, 60, formerly a foreman
at the Spokane ranch ear Helena, is
in a critical condition at a Helena hos
pital as the result of being struck by
an automobile, at which time he re-
ceived compound fractures Of the skull
and left leg. An operation was per-
formed to remove a blood clot formed
on the brain.
Mrs. A. T. Lindgren and her daugh-
ter, Miss Jane Logue, Of Billings, are
in a Forsyth hospital in a serious con-
ditions as the result of injuries received
in a highway smashup. Enroute to
tives, their auto and a westbound bus
cOllided six miles west of Forsyth. The
smaller machine was demolished.
Two Shelby boys, Max Mallette, son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. E. Mallette, and Glen
WA Ol., Dull VI S4CQ IVA, WCIC oCA4.
ously injured in an auto accident while
returning to Shelby from Waller. The
accident took place as they were driv-
ing onto the Sunshine trail. The wind
shield had become frosted, and the
driver was unable to see the turn.
When the coupe Thomas Swenson
was driving through bingham struck
a dog, recently, It blew out a tire,
catapulted across q borrow pit, sped
so feet, and crashed through the front
of Jerry Griffin's residence. Thelma
Swenson, teacher at Clifford and
daughter Of the driver, was taken to
a HaVe hospital. The front Of the
Griffin home vas torn off and the a
was wrecked.
struck by an automobile at Billings a
few days ago suffering fractures Of his
nose and both legs below the knees.
Edward Gomke, farmer Of the Havre
section who pleaded guilty recently to
a hit and run" driving charge filed
after the death Of 10-year-old Tommie
in the county jail with II months Of
the term suspended.
With the arrival Of spring, the Mon
tana highway commission will begin q
rigid enforcement Of the Law govern
ing operation Of trucks m the high
ways. Drivers Will be cautioned to OBJ
serve the regulations designed to pro-
tect Montana highways, IN which the
state has millions Of dollars invested.
Overloaded trucks cut up the paved
roads and knock them to pieces to the
detriment Of the motoring public, &C.
cOrd1ng to highway officials.