Milford chronicle., 1955-07-15
TlUO SnsOthered In Black
Mud OF BrO1dkiu
Marsh On Sat.
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Travelling on Route Is, the death
car approached a curve, the driver
apparently lost control, and the
machine skidded. ran off TO the left
side of the road and overturned in
the ditch. The ditch was about sew
en- feet deep with thick black mud
and about IL feet wide
Mr.. Reed. 30. a veteran of World
War III. was a passenger in the
front seat. His 27-year-old wife,
Helen Marie Reed, was sitting in
the rear seat The death scene is
five miles east of Milton.
They were taken to Beebe Hos
pitaI, Lewes, in ambulances of the
Milton Fire Company and George
town American Legion. and pro-
nounced dead on arrival by DIR.
James Beebe. Jr.
Officers said the mud quickly
flowed into the car as it over
turned, and the heads of the two
victims were plunged into the thick
to extricate the pinned-in bodies.
Heroes of the bizarre crash-be-
lieved one of the most unusual and
one of the potentially most tragic
accidents in Delaware highway his
toTy-were Sgt. Clarence Reed (no
relation to the deceased Reho-
both Beach policeman who lives at
Broadkill, and Clifford Lawson, also
of Broadkill.
Tbau ro,,aa rpcu tho c1ono min
utes after the crash, edged into the
ditch and pulled out the seven
other occupants, all nine were in
bathing suits, with their wallets
and papers of identification in the
glove compartment. That and the
mucky condition of the car made
investigation difficult for police.
A trooper said sounds of tremen-
dous suction were audible when a.
wrecker pulled the car out of the
ooZe. The crash scene is near the
of dirt road, Sussex
County Route No. 237.
Survivors Listed
In the car with Mr.. Wynes were
his wife and child. The others were
fs
by a prior marriage, Nathaniel Ed
gar, 10, and Barbara Jean Edgar,
s, children of previous marriage
of Mrs. Reed. Not in the car and
also orphaned were Margaret Ann
Edgar, 8, and Helen Marie Reed, 8.
Double funeral services were held
Wednesday at 2 D. m. at the Berry
Funeral Home, FELTON,.
Mr.. Reed worked at the plant of
Latex Corporation,
Dover. In the Army 20 months, he
was a sergeant in the Philippines
with the 670th Medical Port Com
pany. In addition to his children,
he is survived by his mother, Mrs.
Lottie Reed of Hazletville: a sister,
Mrs. Betty McDouiall, Frederick,
and brother, Herbie Reed, Dover.
Mrs. Reed worked at Delaware
Mills. a wool factory at Frederick |
Her other survivors include four |
sisters. Mrs. Gertrude Merchant, |
FELTON,; Mrs. Oracle Cox, Dover:
Mrs. Lillian Moore, Viola, and Mrs. /
dildred Booker. Frederick, and
hree brothers. Herbert Glanden,
yyoming;' William Glanden, Cheri-
on, Va, and Dawson Glanden,
dagnolia.
The Rev. G. Leonard Taylor, pas
or of the Dover Church of God,
,fficiated at the funeral. Interment
3arratt's Chapel Cemetery.
Thirteen persons were sent to the
Kent General Hospital as result |
Of a crash between a bus and a
truck at the intersection of the dual
highway and Woodside Road about |
1927 p. m, last Sunday.
Ten of the passengers are still |
IN Kent General Hospital, Dover, |
where their collective condition |
was described as fair.
Ten of the injured persons
brought to the hospital were pass
angers on the bus. It was said that |
he seven other passengers on the |
bus were shaken up but did not |
need treatment.
According to the state police the |
bus was going south and at the |
Woodside intersection an itinerant |
farm labor truck, carrying four
persons stopped, and then started |
the intersection.