Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1949-03-11
Three YOUTHS.
KILLED IN AUTO.
CRASH NEAR 0. H..
Three Others Are Seriously
Hurt When Auto Crashes
Into Concrete Bridge

eu instantly, q fremont youth was
drowned, and three other young
people were seriously hurt shortly
before midnight Saturday when a
car being driven by Carl Wolf, 10,
Fremont, smashed into the con-
crete bridge abutment over Turtle
Creek in Route l63, six miles
west of Oak Harbor.
Killed in the crash were Miss
Virginia X. Hetrick, 10, and Miss
Beverly Smith, 18, well-known
Oak Harbor girls. Believed to
have drowned when he was thrown
unconscious into the nearby wat
er-filled ditch was Theodore STREET
eel, 10, Fremont.
Seriously hurt were the driver.
Carl Wolf, and Kenneth Carnicom,
20, also of Fremont, and Miss
Shirley Fought, Is, Oak Harbor.
Carnicom was taken to St. Vim
cents Hospital in Toledo where he
is being treated for a broken leg
and other injuries. Miss Fought
and Wolf are patients in Magrud-
er Hospital. She also sustained
broken leg and severe cuts, while
Wolf, believed to be the most ser
iously hurt, is being treated for
severe head cuts and leg injuries.
Conditions of the trio were report
ed as fair.
Ambulances from Oak Harbor,
Elmore and Genoa were called
to the scene. Stetzel was dead
on arrival at st. Vincent's Hospital
where doctors said he was drown
I'd, Deputy Sheriff Myron Hetrick
stated. Stetzel had suffered null
tiple injuries in the accident. He
had been thrown from the auto
and was found lying face down in
the water.
Wolf regained consciousness for
time Sunday when he told Het-
rick that he did not know how the
accident took place, but that he
might have fallen asleep. He said
the girls had been shopping in To-
ledo and that the three Fremont
youths had met them in that city
and were returning the girls to
Oak Harbor when the crash occur
red.
The auto crashed into the
bridge with such force that the
motor was showed into the front
seat. All three girls, employees
of the Philco Corp. in Sandusky,
We're recent graduates of the Oak
Harbor high school.
The accident happened where
the highway narrows from 20 to
16 feet, a mile west of the Stanky
Road.
Services for Beverly Smith were
held Tuesday afternoon in the
Robinson Funeral home and ST.
Paul's Evangelical and Reform
ed Church, Oak Harbor.
Beverly Smith is survived by
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Smith; one brother, Glenn; one
sister, Norma; grandparents, Mr.,
and Mrs. William E. Hyde, Oak
Harbor, and Mrs. Ella Smith, To-
ledo.
Services for Virginia Hetrick
were held Wednesday in the resi-
dence and st. Johns Lutheran
Church, Oak Harbor. She is sur
vived by her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Luther F. Hetrick; sisters, Mrs.
Harold Diehler, Fremont, Judith
and Sandra, at home; and grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. M. ]. Barn
holt, Catawba Island, and Harmon
Hetrick, Oak Harbor.
Theodore "Ted" Stetzel lived
with his grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Emery Sevitts, Sr., in Ere
mont. He was member of the
1947 Ross graduating class and
was employed at the Consolite
Corp. plant, where his uncle, En-
cry Sevitts, Jr., is general mana
ger.
Also surviving are his twin
brother, Fred, another brother,
Edward, and two sisters, Mrs.
Robert Collins, Grand junction,
Colorado, and Sydelle, Fremont.
Funeral services were held We'd
nesday in Weller Wonderley funer-
al home, Fremont.
The Wolf auto was demolished
in the terrific crash. II was ne
cessary to use a wrecker to pull
the vehicle apart so that the bodies
of the two girls could be removed,