Harry was the son of Horace "Hod" Clay Quigley and Luella N. (Donaldson) Quigley.
Harry Quigley married May Collier at Grangeville, Idaho 26 October 1910.
H. M. Quigley, 50, pioneer resident of Lewiston, lost his life in the Clearwater River at Greer Sunday afternoon [February 7] at 4 o'clock when his pickup truck skidded on the icy Lewis-Clark highway as he attempted to turn onto the Greer bridge. The vehicle missed the bridge about six feet on the upper side plunged down the embankment onto the ice and slid quite a few feet before it came to a stop, Sheriff George Pankey and Deputy Murray Chilton told the Tribune. Two eyewitnesses, one of whom was W. J. Hilliard, depot agent at Greer, saw the accident.
When the car left the highway and rolled down the embankment Quigley was apparently thrown with such force that his body shot forward in advance of the truck and slid over the ice to an open stretch of water about 30 feet wide, 150 feet long, and 100 feet from the shore. The car rested on ice about 40 feet from shore, Sheriff Pankey said.
The two witnesses said that the body floated downriver in the stream and was lost to view under the ice. The truck was not damaged to any great extent and Sunday afternoon an effort was made to bring it into Orofino, but a cable broke and the effort was abandoned after the vehicle had been anchored to the bank. Monday C. H. Quigley, Clarkston, a brother of the drowned man, and a crew of eight other men, dynamited the river for about three hundred feet below the scene of the accident in an endeavor to recover the body, but their efforts proved futile. The pickup, however, was brought out.
According to the Lewiston Tribune, Quigley was on his way to Clearwater towns on business when the accident occurred.
He is survived by his mother, five children, four brothers, and a sister.
Frank Gilkie, who was traveling from Greer to Orofino, accompanied by his son Carl, last Sunday discovered the body of Harry M. Quigley floating in an eddy in the Clearwater River about 30 feet from shore and two miles below the Greer bridge.
Mr. Gilkie remained near where he discovered the body and sent his son on to Orofino to notify the sheriff's office.
Deputy Sheriff Murray Chilton and Wayne Herres, coroner, responded. The body was recovered by throwing a rope, to which was attached some large salmon hooks, across it. The hooks caught in clothing and the body was floated to shore.
According to marks found on the body, Mr. Quigley was killed instantly when his head struck the ice. A large hole in the back of his skull indicated with what force he struck. There was also a large gash down the front of his forehead which he evidently received from the glass when thrown from his car. A watch found in clothing on the body stopped at 4:20; identification was obtained through driver's license, also hunting and fishing license, which were found in his wallet. Quigley, a resident of Lewiston, was alone in the car at the time of fatality.
Committal services were held at 4:30 p.m. Monday [March 29] at Normal Hill Cemetry in Lewiston.
Clearwater Tribune, Orofino, Idaho, Friday, April 2, 1937
Harry Quigley married May Collier at Grangeville, Idaho 26 October 1910.
H. M. Quigley, 50, pioneer resident of Lewiston, lost his life in the Clearwater River at Greer Sunday afternoon [February 7] at 4 o'clock when his pickup truck skidded on the icy Lewis-Clark highway as he attempted to turn onto the Greer bridge. The vehicle missed the bridge about six feet on the upper side plunged down the embankment onto the ice and slid quite a few feet before it came to a stop, Sheriff George Pankey and Deputy Murray Chilton told the Tribune. Two eyewitnesses, one of whom was W. J. Hilliard, depot agent at Greer, saw the accident.
When the car left the highway and rolled down the embankment Quigley was apparently thrown with such force that his body shot forward in advance of the truck and slid over the ice to an open stretch of water about 30 feet wide, 150 feet long, and 100 feet from the shore. The car rested on ice about 40 feet from shore, Sheriff Pankey said.
The two witnesses said that the body floated downriver in the stream and was lost to view under the ice. The truck was not damaged to any great extent and Sunday afternoon an effort was made to bring it into Orofino, but a cable broke and the effort was abandoned after the vehicle had been anchored to the bank. Monday C. H. Quigley, Clarkston, a brother of the drowned man, and a crew of eight other men, dynamited the river for about three hundred feet below the scene of the accident in an endeavor to recover the body, but their efforts proved futile. The pickup, however, was brought out.
According to the Lewiston Tribune, Quigley was on his way to Clearwater towns on business when the accident occurred.
He is survived by his mother, five children, four brothers, and a sister.
Frank Gilkie, who was traveling from Greer to Orofino, accompanied by his son Carl, last Sunday discovered the body of Harry M. Quigley floating in an eddy in the Clearwater River about 30 feet from shore and two miles below the Greer bridge.
Mr. Gilkie remained near where he discovered the body and sent his son on to Orofino to notify the sheriff's office.
Deputy Sheriff Murray Chilton and Wayne Herres, coroner, responded. The body was recovered by throwing a rope, to which was attached some large salmon hooks, across it. The hooks caught in clothing and the body was floated to shore.
According to marks found on the body, Mr. Quigley was killed instantly when his head struck the ice. A large hole in the back of his skull indicated with what force he struck. There was also a large gash down the front of his forehead which he evidently received from the glass when thrown from his car. A watch found in clothing on the body stopped at 4:20; identification was obtained through driver's license, also hunting and fishing license, which were found in his wallet. Quigley, a resident of Lewiston, was alone in the car at the time of fatality.
Committal services were held at 4:30 p.m. Monday [March 29] at Normal Hill Cemetry in Lewiston.
Clearwater Tribune, Orofino, Idaho, Friday, April 2, 1937
Harry was the son of Horace "Hod" Clay Quigley and Luella N. (Donaldson) Quigley.
Harry Quigley married May Collier at Grangeville, Idaho 26 October 1910.
H. M. Quigley, 50, pioneer resident of Lewiston, lost his life in the Clearwater River at Greer Sunday afternoon [February 7] at 4 o'clock when his pickup truck skidded on the icy Lewis-Clark highway as he attempted to turn onto the Greer bridge. The vehicle missed the bridge about six feet on the upper side plunged down the embankment onto the ice and slid quite a few feet before it came to a stop, Sheriff George Pankey and Deputy Murray Chilton told the Tribune. Two eyewitnesses, one of whom was W. J. Hilliard, depot agent at Greer, saw the accident.
When the car left the highway and rolled down the embankment Quigley was apparently thrown with such force that his body shot forward in advance of the truck and slid over the ice to an open stretch of water about 30 feet wide, 150 feet long, and 100 feet from the shore. The car rested on ice about 40 feet from shore, Sheriff Pankey said.
The two witnesses said that the body floated downriver in the stream and was lost to view under the ice. The truck was not damaged to any great extent and Sunday afternoon an effort was made to bring it into Orofino, but a cable broke and the effort was abandoned after the vehicle had been anchored to the bank. Monday C. H. Quigley, Clarkston, a brother of the drowned man, and a crew of eight other men, dynamited the river for about three hundred feet below the scene of the accident in an endeavor to recover the body, but their efforts proved futile. The pickup, however, was brought out.
According to the Lewiston Tribune, Quigley was on his way to Clearwater towns on business when the accident occurred.
He is survived by his mother, five children, four brothers, and a sister.
Frank Gilkie, who was traveling from Greer to Orofino, accompanied by his son Carl, last Sunday discovered the body of Harry M. Quigley floating in an eddy in the Clearwater River about 30 feet from shore and two miles below the Greer bridge.
Mr. Gilkie remained near where he discovered the body and sent his son on to Orofino to notify the sheriff's office.
Deputy Sheriff Murray Chilton and Wayne Herres, coroner, responded. The body was recovered by throwing a rope, to which was attached some large salmon hooks, across it. The hooks caught in clothing and the body was floated to shore.
According to marks found on the body, Mr. Quigley was killed instantly when his head struck the ice. A large hole in the back of his skull indicated with what force he struck. There was also a large gash down the front of his forehead which he evidently received from the glass when thrown from his car. A watch found in clothing on the body stopped at 4:20; identification was obtained through driver's license, also hunting and fishing license, which were found in his wallet. Quigley, a resident of Lewiston, was alone in the car at the time of fatality.
Committal services were held at 4:30 p.m. Monday [March 29] at Normal Hill Cemetry in Lewiston.
Clearwater Tribune, Orofino, Idaho, Friday, April 2, 1937
Harry Quigley married May Collier at Grangeville, Idaho 26 October 1910.
H. M. Quigley, 50, pioneer resident of Lewiston, lost his life in the Clearwater River at Greer Sunday afternoon [February 7] at 4 o'clock when his pickup truck skidded on the icy Lewis-Clark highway as he attempted to turn onto the Greer bridge. The vehicle missed the bridge about six feet on the upper side plunged down the embankment onto the ice and slid quite a few feet before it came to a stop, Sheriff George Pankey and Deputy Murray Chilton told the Tribune. Two eyewitnesses, one of whom was W. J. Hilliard, depot agent at Greer, saw the accident.
When the car left the highway and rolled down the embankment Quigley was apparently thrown with such force that his body shot forward in advance of the truck and slid over the ice to an open stretch of water about 30 feet wide, 150 feet long, and 100 feet from the shore. The car rested on ice about 40 feet from shore, Sheriff Pankey said.
The two witnesses said that the body floated downriver in the stream and was lost to view under the ice. The truck was not damaged to any great extent and Sunday afternoon an effort was made to bring it into Orofino, but a cable broke and the effort was abandoned after the vehicle had been anchored to the bank. Monday C. H. Quigley, Clarkston, a brother of the drowned man, and a crew of eight other men, dynamited the river for about three hundred feet below the scene of the accident in an endeavor to recover the body, but their efforts proved futile. The pickup, however, was brought out.
According to the Lewiston Tribune, Quigley was on his way to Clearwater towns on business when the accident occurred.
He is survived by his mother, five children, four brothers, and a sister.
Frank Gilkie, who was traveling from Greer to Orofino, accompanied by his son Carl, last Sunday discovered the body of Harry M. Quigley floating in an eddy in the Clearwater River about 30 feet from shore and two miles below the Greer bridge.
Mr. Gilkie remained near where he discovered the body and sent his son on to Orofino to notify the sheriff's office.
Deputy Sheriff Murray Chilton and Wayne Herres, coroner, responded. The body was recovered by throwing a rope, to which was attached some large salmon hooks, across it. The hooks caught in clothing and the body was floated to shore.
According to marks found on the body, Mr. Quigley was killed instantly when his head struck the ice. A large hole in the back of his skull indicated with what force he struck. There was also a large gash down the front of his forehead which he evidently received from the glass when thrown from his car. A watch found in clothing on the body stopped at 4:20; identification was obtained through driver's license, also hunting and fishing license, which were found in his wallet. Quigley, a resident of Lewiston, was alone in the car at the time of fatality.
Committal services were held at 4:30 p.m. Monday [March 29] at Normal Hill Cemetry in Lewiston.
Clearwater Tribune, Orofino, Idaho, Friday, April 2, 1937
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