"MAN KILLED IN CAR ACCIDENT
30 MILES SOUTH OF BAKER
ROYAL BEESON OF MEDICINE ROCK
IS FATALLY INJURED WHEN STRUCK
WHILE REPAIRING A TIRE The victim of a Saturday night auto accident, Royal Beeson of Medicine Rock died at the Baker Hospital Sunday morning. Death came as a result of injuries sustained when, while changing a tire on his own car, he was run into by a truck driven by Fred Martin of Ekalaka. The accident occurred about thirty miles south of Baker.
The coroner's inquest held Monday at Ekalaka for investigation into the accident, resulted in the finding that Royal Beeson met his death entirely by accident as a result of being struck by a truck driven by Fred Martin of Ekalaka.
Details as to the accident are few save for the fact that Mr. Beeson with his nephew **(instead of his nephew this was probably his 1st cousin, Paul Morgan, who was 18 at the time and living with Mr. Beeson and his wife) was on his way home Saturday night from the Johnson coal mine where he was employed, and had stopped to change a tire on the Chevrolet touring car which he was driving. The lights of the car were out and Mr. Beeson was fixing the tire on a wheel toward the inside of the road when Mr. Martin driving the truck came over the hill. The car loomed up suddenly before the latter and in an effort to avoid crashing full into it, he swerved to the left, grazing the back of the car and striking Mr. Beeson, who was working on the back tire. The force of the impact threw the man approximately seventy feet from the scene of the crash and when he was picked up both rubber boots which he was wearing were lying at some distance from the body.
He was rushed at once to the hospital in Bake and Dr. Garberson from Miles City called into conference, but the injuries, consisting of two broken legs, a broken left arm, two fractures of the jaw and a fractured skull, were of so serious a nature that all hope of saving the man's life was abandoned and he died about fourteen hours later.
Mr. Beeson, who was employed in the Johnson's coal mines was on his way to spend the week weekend with his wife, a teacher in the Walter Anderson school district, when the accident occurred. He had been married a little over a year and was 21 years of age at the time of his death.
Funeral services are being held this afternoon, Thursday at the Medicine Rock Church".
Source -- Baker, Montana newspaper, Volume XIII, Thursday, October 16, 1929. Courtesy of Beth,
Fallon County Library, Baker, MT.
** Note added by Zelda Capehart -- Source: David Enos remembers that Paul Morgan was living with Royal Beeson and his wife at that time. Royal helped build the barn on the Enos Ranch located near Baker, Montana. Royal's nephews would have been 5 & 6 years old at the time and it is very unlikely that either of them would have been returning with him from the Johnson Coal Mine where he worked.
30 MILES SOUTH OF BAKER
ROYAL BEESON OF MEDICINE ROCK
IS FATALLY INJURED WHEN STRUCK
WHILE REPAIRING A TIRE The victim of a Saturday night auto accident, Royal Beeson of Medicine Rock died at the Baker Hospital Sunday morning. Death came as a result of injuries sustained when, while changing a tire on his own car, he was run into by a truck driven by Fred Martin of Ekalaka. The accident occurred about thirty miles south of Baker.
The coroner's inquest held Monday at Ekalaka for investigation into the accident, resulted in the finding that Royal Beeson met his death entirely by accident as a result of being struck by a truck driven by Fred Martin of Ekalaka.
Details as to the accident are few save for the fact that Mr. Beeson with his nephew **(instead of his nephew this was probably his 1st cousin, Paul Morgan, who was 18 at the time and living with Mr. Beeson and his wife) was on his way home Saturday night from the Johnson coal mine where he was employed, and had stopped to change a tire on the Chevrolet touring car which he was driving. The lights of the car were out and Mr. Beeson was fixing the tire on a wheel toward the inside of the road when Mr. Martin driving the truck came over the hill. The car loomed up suddenly before the latter and in an effort to avoid crashing full into it, he swerved to the left, grazing the back of the car and striking Mr. Beeson, who was working on the back tire. The force of the impact threw the man approximately seventy feet from the scene of the crash and when he was picked up both rubber boots which he was wearing were lying at some distance from the body.
He was rushed at once to the hospital in Bake and Dr. Garberson from Miles City called into conference, but the injuries, consisting of two broken legs, a broken left arm, two fractures of the jaw and a fractured skull, were of so serious a nature that all hope of saving the man's life was abandoned and he died about fourteen hours later.
Mr. Beeson, who was employed in the Johnson's coal mines was on his way to spend the week weekend with his wife, a teacher in the Walter Anderson school district, when the accident occurred. He had been married a little over a year and was 21 years of age at the time of his death.
Funeral services are being held this afternoon, Thursday at the Medicine Rock Church".
Source -- Baker, Montana newspaper, Volume XIII, Thursday, October 16, 1929. Courtesy of Beth,
Fallon County Library, Baker, MT.
** Note added by Zelda Capehart -- Source: David Enos remembers that Paul Morgan was living with Royal Beeson and his wife at that time. Royal helped build the barn on the Enos Ranch located near Baker, Montana. Royal's nephews would have been 5 & 6 years old at the time and it is very unlikely that either of them would have been returning with him from the Johnson Coal Mine where he worked.
"MAN KILLED IN CAR ACCIDENT
30 MILES SOUTH OF BAKER
ROYAL BEESON OF MEDICINE ROCK
IS FATALLY INJURED WHEN STRUCK
WHILE REPAIRING A TIRE The victim of a Saturday night auto accident, Royal Beeson of Medicine Rock died at the Baker Hospital Sunday morning. Death came as a result of injuries sustained when, while changing a tire on his own car, he was run into by a truck driven by Fred Martin of Ekalaka. The accident occurred about thirty miles south of Baker.
The coroner's inquest held Monday at Ekalaka for investigation into the accident, resulted in the finding that Royal Beeson met his death entirely by accident as a result of being struck by a truck driven by Fred Martin of Ekalaka.
Details as to the accident are few save for the fact that Mr. Beeson with his nephew **(instead of his nephew this was probably his 1st cousin, Paul Morgan, who was 18 at the time and living with Mr. Beeson and his wife) was on his way home Saturday night from the Johnson coal mine where he was employed, and had stopped to change a tire on the Chevrolet touring car which he was driving. The lights of the car were out and Mr. Beeson was fixing the tire on a wheel toward the inside of the road when Mr. Martin driving the truck came over the hill. The car loomed up suddenly before the latter and in an effort to avoid crashing full into it, he swerved to the left, grazing the back of the car and striking Mr. Beeson, who was working on the back tire. The force of the impact threw the man approximately seventy feet from the scene of the crash and when he was picked up both rubber boots which he was wearing were lying at some distance from the body.
He was rushed at once to the hospital in Bake and Dr. Garberson from Miles City called into conference, but the injuries, consisting of two broken legs, a broken left arm, two fractures of the jaw and a fractured skull, were of so serious a nature that all hope of saving the man's life was abandoned and he died about fourteen hours later.
Mr. Beeson, who was employed in the Johnson's coal mines was on his way to spend the week weekend with his wife, a teacher in the Walter Anderson school district, when the accident occurred. He had been married a little over a year and was 21 years of age at the time of his death.
Funeral services are being held this afternoon, Thursday at the Medicine Rock Church".
Source -- Baker, Montana newspaper, Volume XIII, Thursday, October 16, 1929. Courtesy of Beth,
Fallon County Library, Baker, MT.
** Note added by Zelda Capehart -- Source: David Enos remembers that Paul Morgan was living with Royal Beeson and his wife at that time. Royal helped build the barn on the Enos Ranch located near Baker, Montana. Royal's nephews would have been 5 & 6 years old at the time and it is very unlikely that either of them would have been returning with him from the Johnson Coal Mine where he worked.
30 MILES SOUTH OF BAKER
ROYAL BEESON OF MEDICINE ROCK
IS FATALLY INJURED WHEN STRUCK
WHILE REPAIRING A TIRE The victim of a Saturday night auto accident, Royal Beeson of Medicine Rock died at the Baker Hospital Sunday morning. Death came as a result of injuries sustained when, while changing a tire on his own car, he was run into by a truck driven by Fred Martin of Ekalaka. The accident occurred about thirty miles south of Baker.
The coroner's inquest held Monday at Ekalaka for investigation into the accident, resulted in the finding that Royal Beeson met his death entirely by accident as a result of being struck by a truck driven by Fred Martin of Ekalaka.
Details as to the accident are few save for the fact that Mr. Beeson with his nephew **(instead of his nephew this was probably his 1st cousin, Paul Morgan, who was 18 at the time and living with Mr. Beeson and his wife) was on his way home Saturday night from the Johnson coal mine where he was employed, and had stopped to change a tire on the Chevrolet touring car which he was driving. The lights of the car were out and Mr. Beeson was fixing the tire on a wheel toward the inside of the road when Mr. Martin driving the truck came over the hill. The car loomed up suddenly before the latter and in an effort to avoid crashing full into it, he swerved to the left, grazing the back of the car and striking Mr. Beeson, who was working on the back tire. The force of the impact threw the man approximately seventy feet from the scene of the crash and when he was picked up both rubber boots which he was wearing were lying at some distance from the body.
He was rushed at once to the hospital in Bake and Dr. Garberson from Miles City called into conference, but the injuries, consisting of two broken legs, a broken left arm, two fractures of the jaw and a fractured skull, were of so serious a nature that all hope of saving the man's life was abandoned and he died about fourteen hours later.
Mr. Beeson, who was employed in the Johnson's coal mines was on his way to spend the week weekend with his wife, a teacher in the Walter Anderson school district, when the accident occurred. He had been married a little over a year and was 21 years of age at the time of his death.
Funeral services are being held this afternoon, Thursday at the Medicine Rock Church".
Source -- Baker, Montana newspaper, Volume XIII, Thursday, October 16, 1929. Courtesy of Beth,
Fallon County Library, Baker, MT.
** Note added by Zelda Capehart -- Source: David Enos remembers that Paul Morgan was living with Royal Beeson and his wife at that time. Royal helped build the barn on the Enos Ranch located near Baker, Montana. Royal's nephews would have been 5 & 6 years old at the time and it is very unlikely that either of them would have been returning with him from the Johnson Coal Mine where he worked.
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