Alger Youth Killed In Crash
ALGER - Donald L. Newland, 18, Alger, was fatally injured yesterday afternoon when he lost control of the car he was driving and hit a tree along Route 179 in Ashland County.
A passenger, Cecil DeLong, 18, Route 2, Alger, escaped with cuts and bruises as he was thrown from the car.
Newland died at 4:10 p.m. in Ashland Samaritan Hospital, approximately an hour and one half after the crash. He suffered a fractured skull, crushed chest and broken leg.
The accident happened when Newland turned his head to look back at a car he had just passed, according to a statement made by DeLong to Ashland County Sheriff Frank Topper. DeLong said the car went off the pavement to the right, then veered back across the highway, sideswiping a tree on the left side of the road and smashing headon into a second tree.
Sheriff Topper estimated the car's speed at 85 miles an hour at the time of the accident.
Newland and DeLong were on their way to pick up some friends who were attending an Assembly of God camp meeting near Big Prairie.
The car, which was completely demolished, belonged to the Rawls Bros. Machine Shop, Alger, where Newland was employed as a machinist.
Surviving are Newland's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Newland; seven sisters, Mrs. Roger Allen, Harrod; Mrs. Harold Frye, McGuffey, and Patty, Barbara, Janet, Betty and Brenda, all at home; two brothers, Eugene and Dennis, also at home; the maternal grandmother, Mrs. Fay Marshall, Alger; the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Ethel Newland, Alger, and a great-grandmother, Mrs. Ollie Deer, 511 E. High St., Lima.
A native of Alger, he attended Alger High School.
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Central Methodist Church, with the Rev. Evan Richards and the Rev. Warren Richie officiating. Burial will be in Preston Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Hanson Funeral Home from 1 p.m. Tuesday until 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.
(published in The Lima News, Monday, August 6, 1956)
ALGER - Donald L. Newland, 18, Alger, was fatally injured yesterday afternoon when he lost control of the car he was driving and hit a tree along Route 179 in Ashland County.
A passenger, Cecil DeLong, 18, Route 2, Alger, escaped with cuts and bruises as he was thrown from the car.
Newland died at 4:10 p.m. in Ashland Samaritan Hospital, approximately an hour and one half after the crash. He suffered a fractured skull, crushed chest and broken leg.
The accident happened when Newland turned his head to look back at a car he had just passed, according to a statement made by DeLong to Ashland County Sheriff Frank Topper. DeLong said the car went off the pavement to the right, then veered back across the highway, sideswiping a tree on the left side of the road and smashing headon into a second tree.
Sheriff Topper estimated the car's speed at 85 miles an hour at the time of the accident.
Newland and DeLong were on their way to pick up some friends who were attending an Assembly of God camp meeting near Big Prairie.
The car, which was completely demolished, belonged to the Rawls Bros. Machine Shop, Alger, where Newland was employed as a machinist.
Surviving are Newland's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Newland; seven sisters, Mrs. Roger Allen, Harrod; Mrs. Harold Frye, McGuffey, and Patty, Barbara, Janet, Betty and Brenda, all at home; two brothers, Eugene and Dennis, also at home; the maternal grandmother, Mrs. Fay Marshall, Alger; the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Ethel Newland, Alger, and a great-grandmother, Mrs. Ollie Deer, 511 E. High St., Lima.
A native of Alger, he attended Alger High School.
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Central Methodist Church, with the Rev. Evan Richards and the Rev. Warren Richie officiating. Burial will be in Preston Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Hanson Funeral Home from 1 p.m. Tuesday until 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.
(published in The Lima News, Monday, August 6, 1956)
Alger Youth Killed In Crash
ALGER - Donald L. Newland, 18, Alger, was fatally injured yesterday afternoon when he lost control of the car he was driving and hit a tree along Route 179 in Ashland County.
A passenger, Cecil DeLong, 18, Route 2, Alger, escaped with cuts and bruises as he was thrown from the car.
Newland died at 4:10 p.m. in Ashland Samaritan Hospital, approximately an hour and one half after the crash. He suffered a fractured skull, crushed chest and broken leg.
The accident happened when Newland turned his head to look back at a car he had just passed, according to a statement made by DeLong to Ashland County Sheriff Frank Topper. DeLong said the car went off the pavement to the right, then veered back across the highway, sideswiping a tree on the left side of the road and smashing headon into a second tree.
Sheriff Topper estimated the car's speed at 85 miles an hour at the time of the accident.
Newland and DeLong were on their way to pick up some friends who were attending an Assembly of God camp meeting near Big Prairie.
The car, which was completely demolished, belonged to the Rawls Bros. Machine Shop, Alger, where Newland was employed as a machinist.
Surviving are Newland's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Newland; seven sisters, Mrs. Roger Allen, Harrod; Mrs. Harold Frye, McGuffey, and Patty, Barbara, Janet, Betty and Brenda, all at home; two brothers, Eugene and Dennis, also at home; the maternal grandmother, Mrs. Fay Marshall, Alger; the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Ethel Newland, Alger, and a great-grandmother, Mrs. Ollie Deer, 511 E. High St., Lima.
A native of Alger, he attended Alger High School.
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Central Methodist Church, with the Rev. Evan Richards and the Rev. Warren Richie officiating. Burial will be in Preston Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Hanson Funeral Home from 1 p.m. Tuesday until 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.
(published in The Lima News, Monday, August 6, 1956)
ALGER - Donald L. Newland, 18, Alger, was fatally injured yesterday afternoon when he lost control of the car he was driving and hit a tree along Route 179 in Ashland County.
A passenger, Cecil DeLong, 18, Route 2, Alger, escaped with cuts and bruises as he was thrown from the car.
Newland died at 4:10 p.m. in Ashland Samaritan Hospital, approximately an hour and one half after the crash. He suffered a fractured skull, crushed chest and broken leg.
The accident happened when Newland turned his head to look back at a car he had just passed, according to a statement made by DeLong to Ashland County Sheriff Frank Topper. DeLong said the car went off the pavement to the right, then veered back across the highway, sideswiping a tree on the left side of the road and smashing headon into a second tree.
Sheriff Topper estimated the car's speed at 85 miles an hour at the time of the accident.
Newland and DeLong were on their way to pick up some friends who were attending an Assembly of God camp meeting near Big Prairie.
The car, which was completely demolished, belonged to the Rawls Bros. Machine Shop, Alger, where Newland was employed as a machinist.
Surviving are Newland's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Newland; seven sisters, Mrs. Roger Allen, Harrod; Mrs. Harold Frye, McGuffey, and Patty, Barbara, Janet, Betty and Brenda, all at home; two brothers, Eugene and Dennis, also at home; the maternal grandmother, Mrs. Fay Marshall, Alger; the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Ethel Newland, Alger, and a great-grandmother, Mrs. Ollie Deer, 511 E. High St., Lima.
A native of Alger, he attended Alger High School.
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Central Methodist Church, with the Rev. Evan Richards and the Rev. Warren Richie officiating. Burial will be in Preston Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Hanson Funeral Home from 1 p.m. Tuesday until 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.
(published in The Lima News, Monday, August 6, 1956)
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