Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-01-04
)ns Death Every Minutes From Automobile Crashes in IS

BKo&orcar Accidents Of Last Week
sIg ooo IN DAMAGES AWARDED
FOR DEATH OF BOY IN CRASH
A iury in federal district court at
Havre returned q verdict IN which
damages Of S16,se0 were awarded 70
James 4. TamIbee Of P0ls9n against
the Great Northern Railway Co. for
the death of his sea- Russell. Ia
train-autO collision la 1883 at WhoSa
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 be was
q passenger collided with another at
Great Falls. He was a student at the
Junior high school.
Clifford Conlin, member Of a Saco
dance orchestra, was killed, ana ms
two companions, Lyle Larson Of Malta
and Norman Anderson Of Maseftelo.
Sask., were seriously injured when a
car driven by Larson went off the
highway near BoWdoin lake.
The three we're on their way 70 Ralta
from Cole, where Conlin and Larson
had played for a dance.
Mrs. Fred Carlson, Al, mother Of
three children, is dead and her nus
band, Fred Carlson, 81, Is IN q critical
condition at a Butte hospital as q
result of an automobile accident which
occurred on the Divide Wisdom high
way near Dewey.
Mrs. Carlson was killed instantly
when the automobile plunged of 8
75-foot embankment into the Big Hole
river. The woman was pinned Deneath
NrFoC
thrown clear and half way across the
ice-covered stream.
Arthur Semingsen, %, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Sid Semingsen OF Conrad,
died at q Conrad hospital as the result
Of injuries received IN an automoole
accident six miles north OF Conrad,
when the car in which he and VIII and
Ed Bell were riding collided with q
truck bearing q ToOle county license.
The two Bel boys were seriously In
tuFed. The truck was overturned, but
the driver was unhurt
Gail Nelson, Is, of Ennis died in a
Bozeman hospital from injuries re-
ceiVed when the car he was driving
left the road west Of Bozeman, landing
In a roadside borrow pit. His COM
panion, j. II. Pankey Jr 80, teacher
In the Ennis schools, is In q critical
condition.
Nelson suffered fractured skull,
a crushed chest and other injuries.
Thomas D. schall, blind Minnesota
republican senator, died as the result
Of injuries received in an automobile
accident near Washington, d. O.
Gertrude Neyenhause of Shelby was
injured when the car in which she and
three companions were riding was
struck by another car driven by Al
Laprairie. She is in a critical condition
at Shelby hospital.
William Ray, 60, formerly foreman
at the Spokane ranch near Helena, Is
In critical condition at 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 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
Ashland to spend Christmas with rela-
tives, their auto and 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
Cox Jr., son of Glen Cox, were seri-
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 co1ne Thomas SwenSon
was driving through bingham struck
q dog recently, 1t blew out q tire, I
catapulted across a borrow pit, sped !
so feet, and crashed through the front
OF Jerry Griffin's residence. TheIma [
Swenson, teacher at Clifford and
daughter of the driver, was taken to /
a Havre hospital. The front OF the !
Griffin home was torn off and the car [
was wrecked.
Walter Gugler, SIS, Of Shawmut, was
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
5ection who pleaded guilty recently to
\ hit and run" driving charge filed c
after the death Of 10-year-old Tommie
Trotchie, was sentenced to one year
10 the county Jail with II months Of
The term suspended.
With the arrival of spring, the Mon ),
ANA highway commission viii begin =
1gid enforcement of the law govern 3
ing operation Of trucks on the high
ways. Drivers will be cautioned to OBJ
IerVe the regulations designed to pro-
iect Montana highways, In which the =
tate has millions of dollars invested. :.
Overloaded trucks cut up the paved y
Dads and knock them to pieces to the |,
ietriment of the motoring public, &C :;
,ording to highway officials. y
Following a weekend open season d
mat resulted in a kill OF so elk, which Z,
lr0ught the herd within range limits, Ii
state Game Warden Kenneth MacDon-
Id has ordered the Carbon and Still n
Bater county districts closed to hunt
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