The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-05-05
Young People
Die Instantly
In Car Crash
ACCIDENT EPIDEMIC
IN SOUTH COUNTY
INVOLVES Is

hAiiCa 4AtoO1AltAy dllu 4OuI pCl.
sons injured in an automo-
bile crash four miles west of
Revere between 1 and 1::30 a.
m. Wednesday in the worst
of four southern Redwood
county accidents this week
involving 25 persons and in
juring a total of Is.
Leslie Colburn, %, bar
tender at the Revere night
club and Maria Wander Lin
den, 20, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Wander Linden
of Walnut Grove, died as the
car in which they were trav-
cling at a high rate of speed
plowed into the rear end of
a bread truck.
County Attorney George A.
Barnes, who investigated the ac-
cident with the highway patrol
shortly afterward, said negligence
was entirely on the part of Col
burn, by all evidence, and that no
inquest would be held.
The fatal accident occurred
near the Lucan corner on high
way IA. Persons involved, all
friends, were going from the Re-
we're night club to the Box Car
night club at Tracy.
A Dodge car driven by Phillip
Bolts, proprietor of the Revere
spot, became stalled on the high
way. Bolts had Dorothy Moots,
l9, of Lamberton, employed at the
Exchange hotel in Tracy and
Adella Williamson, 10, of Tracy
as passengers in the auto, owned
by Lloyd Christensen of Tracy.
Was Pushing Car
Fred Main, A, of Tracy, driver
of a. Regain Holsum bread truck
came up behind Bolts and offered
to push his car to the Box Car,
doing so at the rate of Is to 10
miles per hour.
Truck passengers were Flor
ence Fowler, "a, of Westbrook,
employed at Tracy and Mrs. Ker-
NIT Olson, "a, of Tracy.
After the truck, also a Dodge,
had proceeded about mile and
a half, pushing the car, the Col
burn machine, owned by Bolts,
crashed into it. The speed of the
Colburn car, 1886 Ford V-8,
was estimated at between 20 and
80 miles an hour.
The truck was hurtled into a
ditch and the front car pushed
800 feet down the highway in
the impact
Colburn died instantly Of a
skull fracture and internal injur-
les as the front end of the car
was completely demolished and
showed backward.
Miss Wander Linden suffered a
crushed head and chest and her
throat was slashed as she was
shot through the windshield. Her
father is state highway main
tenance man. She has been at
home caring for her mother who
is i'll.
Others Injured
Main, in the truck ahead, was
uninjured. Miss Fowler is in the
Clinic hospital at Tracy suffering
a scalp wound on the back of the
head which required five stitches,
a bruise on the back and severe
shock. Mrs. Olson was treated
at the same hospital for a bump
on the forehead and released.
Bolts, driver Of the front car,
was also uninjured. Miss Moots
received a bump on the forehead
and back injuries and Miss Will
hanson suffered similar fore
head injury and body bruises.
Curtis Engen of Walnut Grove
who arrived on the scene shortly
afterward assisted in pulling the
bodies of Colburn and Miss Van
der Linden from the wreckage.
They were rushed to the Tracy
hospital where they were pro-
dead.
Double funeral services will be
held at Garvin Saturday after
noon for the victims who had
planned to be married this month.
Rites at both the home of Col
burns parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Al
Colburn and at the Norwegian
Lutheran church are planned.
Miss Wander Linden was born
at Niobrara, Nebraska December
Is, 1917. Besides her parents six
sisters survive her. They are
Mrs. C. A. Carlson of Albert Lea,
Mrs. Ray Nybo and Mrs. Melvin
Pletten both of Tracy and Violet,
Nellie and Ferne at home. She
had been resident of Walnut
Grove for six years.
Six brothers and his parents
Colburn. The brothers are
Arthur of Havana, South Dakota
and A. H Colburn, Ernest, Cor
don, Palmer and Lucien of Gar
vim.
SLEEPY EYE, NORTON
PEOPLE HURT SUNDAY
Morton-Mrs Peter Hillescheim,
So. of Sleepy Eye is in the SPRING
field hospital suffering severe
shock, brain conclusion, a gashed
forehead and injuries of the knee
and wrist sustained in an automo-
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