Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-02-23
PEDESTRIAN HIT
BY TRUCK, DIES
F R 0 N AT ACX
two Motorists Narrowly
Avert Death When Train
Hits Car

1
week, and two others narrowly
escaped being killed by a freight
train when their car stalled at a
crossing in Oak HaTbor.
Oscar Flinner, AZ, employed by
a construction company putting in
the U. S. Gypsum Co. gas main,
died February Is from injuries
suffered a day previously when a
heavy drill fell on him, crushing
his lower body.
The remains were removed to
the victims home in Shreve, O.,
where services and burial took
place.
Heart Attack Fatal
Three hours after he was adj
mitted in Magruder Hospital Sat
urday for injuries suffered when
he was struck by a truck on
route 500, west of Oak Harbor,
William F. Reese, At, of Lime
stone, died.
In the truck mishap, Reese suf-
fered a broken arm, but was be-
lieved to have actually died from
heart attack, produced by
shock. Driver of the truck, JOS
eph Yelinsky, of Vermilion, was
not detained ty state patrolmen,
who removed Reese to the hos
pital.
Reese, who was employed as 4
machiniSt in Toledo, was walking
in route near the junction of
route 500, when he was struck.
Services we're held Wednesday
at the Robinson funeral home,
Oak Harbor and burial was in
Limestone cemetery. Rev. H. F.
Heidemann Officiated.
Surviving arethe widow. Mrs.
Alyina Reese, of Oak Harbor; his
; father, Frank Reese; daughter,
Mrs. Ida Mae Greene, of Lime
: stone; three sisters, Mrs. Harry
Smith, Mrs. E. l.. Wilson and Mrs.
John Patterson, all OF Toledo, and
one grandson.
Another heart attack case was
that of Abram Tasch, n, of To-
ledo, whose body was found in
Gypsum road by passing truck
driver at 4 p. m. Wednesday
Tasch was removed to Magruder
\ Hospital in a Niedecker ambu-
lance. He was dead on arrival.
, The deceased had been visit
ing his brother, Lester Tasch,
!. and was preparing to return to
his son Clyde's home in Toledo
{ at the time of his death.
' Services will be held Saturday
! here, with burial in Lakeviepg
|. Cemetery.
, Jump To Safety
!. Jumping to safety after a Nick
o elplate Railroad freight train
. struck her car, Miss Esther Unck-
rich, 36, and her brother, Wayne,
!. 38, of 1926 Camp street, Sandusky,
r escaped injury late Sunday after
$ noon in Oak Harbor.
n According to sheriff deputies
i who investigated the mishap, Miss
Unckrich was following closely
|. behind a car ahead of her which
had cleared the track, when she
4 noticed the freight train hearing
s down on them. Unable to lurch
/. the car forward, she and her bro-
t. ther leaped to the ground seconds
l. before the locomotive crashed into
the vehicle, dcmoliShing it, 1949
o Ford sedan.
d The wreckage was towed to
h Port Clinton by the Amato Wreck
:. ing Service. The car belonged to
: Charles Unckrich, father of the two
= UnckricheS.
!. Seriously Injured
In serious condition in a Tole.
do Hospital, is Charles Schiewe,
46, an employee of the Port Clin-
ton Water Works Department,
whose automobile was struck by
semi-trailer on route 2 east of
, the city.
> riding with SchleWe, ana also
injured, was another city en-
> ployee, Dominic Ferrari, AZ.
Force of the impact was re-
: ported to have partially drawn the
: automobile under the truck.
> Driver unhurt
Il The accident occurred on route
;. a mile east of the city February
/ Is. The truck was driven by
Leroy Bachelor, of Conneaut,
s Ohio, who was unhurt.
Deputy Sheriff Clarence Step
r ems was kept busy Monday night
directing traffic on Route 120.
! when a large truck carrying a
cargo of linoleum cement turned
r over north of Genoa. The con-
n tents of the large cans was dis
tributed over portion of the
highway when the cans broke
+ open. The accident was said to