The Emporia Gazette, 02 Jan 1920
KILLED ON MOTORCYCLE
LESTER SNYDER, 20 YEARS OLD, DIED FROM INJURY
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Snyder---Accident Happened On West Sixth Avenue Yesterday Morning
Lester Snyder, 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Snyder, who live on West Sixth Avenue, was fatally injured at 9:30 o'clock yesterday morning when he was thrown from his motorcycle. The accident happened while young Snyder was coming to town. No one saw him fall but it is thought his machine hit a rut or bump in the road about 25 feet from the end of the Sixth Avenue paving, and he was thrown violently under the motorcycle. A gash six inches long was cut in the back of his head by some part of the machine and the shock and loss of blood proved fatal.
Several persons living near Sixth Avenue and Chestnut Street reached Snyder soon after he fell and he was rushed to St. Mary's Hospital, where he died six hours later. He did not regain consciousness. According to T. D. Roberts, who employed Snyder at the Emporia Sporting Goods Company for three years, the young man was a good motorcycle rider and accustomed to handling a machine. Mr. Roberts said today there was nothing wrong with the motorcycle and the only explanation of the accident is that Snyder hit a bump in the road and was thrown. He was riding slowly, it is reported.
Lester H. Snyder was born in New London, Iowa, November 8, 1899. He moved to Kansas in 1907. He had lived one and one-half miles west of Emporia on Sixth Avenue for three years. He is survived by his parents; two sisters, Misses Alta and Freda Snyder; four brothers, Ernest Snyder, of Americus, and James, George and Delbert Snyder, all of Emporia. Lester Snyder was a member of the Friends Cottonwood Church. The funeral services probably will be held Sunday at 11 o'clock at the Cottonwood Friends Church. Rev. T. J. Strickler and Reverend Haynes will conduct the services. Interment will be in Cottonwood Cemetery.
KILLED ON MOTORCYCLE
LESTER SNYDER, 20 YEARS OLD, DIED FROM INJURY
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Snyder---Accident Happened On West Sixth Avenue Yesterday Morning
Lester Snyder, 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Snyder, who live on West Sixth Avenue, was fatally injured at 9:30 o'clock yesterday morning when he was thrown from his motorcycle. The accident happened while young Snyder was coming to town. No one saw him fall but it is thought his machine hit a rut or bump in the road about 25 feet from the end of the Sixth Avenue paving, and he was thrown violently under the motorcycle. A gash six inches long was cut in the back of his head by some part of the machine and the shock and loss of blood proved fatal.
Several persons living near Sixth Avenue and Chestnut Street reached Snyder soon after he fell and he was rushed to St. Mary's Hospital, where he died six hours later. He did not regain consciousness. According to T. D. Roberts, who employed Snyder at the Emporia Sporting Goods Company for three years, the young man was a good motorcycle rider and accustomed to handling a machine. Mr. Roberts said today there was nothing wrong with the motorcycle and the only explanation of the accident is that Snyder hit a bump in the road and was thrown. He was riding slowly, it is reported.
Lester H. Snyder was born in New London, Iowa, November 8, 1899. He moved to Kansas in 1907. He had lived one and one-half miles west of Emporia on Sixth Avenue for three years. He is survived by his parents; two sisters, Misses Alta and Freda Snyder; four brothers, Ernest Snyder, of Americus, and James, George and Delbert Snyder, all of Emporia. Lester Snyder was a member of the Friends Cottonwood Church. The funeral services probably will be held Sunday at 11 o'clock at the Cottonwood Friends Church. Rev. T. J. Strickler and Reverend Haynes will conduct the services. Interment will be in Cottonwood Cemetery.
The Emporia Gazette, 02 Jan 1920
KILLED ON MOTORCYCLE
LESTER SNYDER, 20 YEARS OLD, DIED FROM INJURY
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Snyder---Accident Happened On West Sixth Avenue Yesterday Morning
Lester Snyder, 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Snyder, who live on West Sixth Avenue, was fatally injured at 9:30 o'clock yesterday morning when he was thrown from his motorcycle. The accident happened while young Snyder was coming to town. No one saw him fall but it is thought his machine hit a rut or bump in the road about 25 feet from the end of the Sixth Avenue paving, and he was thrown violently under the motorcycle. A gash six inches long was cut in the back of his head by some part of the machine and the shock and loss of blood proved fatal.
Several persons living near Sixth Avenue and Chestnut Street reached Snyder soon after he fell and he was rushed to St. Mary's Hospital, where he died six hours later. He did not regain consciousness. According to T. D. Roberts, who employed Snyder at the Emporia Sporting Goods Company for three years, the young man was a good motorcycle rider and accustomed to handling a machine. Mr. Roberts said today there was nothing wrong with the motorcycle and the only explanation of the accident is that Snyder hit a bump in the road and was thrown. He was riding slowly, it is reported.
Lester H. Snyder was born in New London, Iowa, November 8, 1899. He moved to Kansas in 1907. He had lived one and one-half miles west of Emporia on Sixth Avenue for three years. He is survived by his parents; two sisters, Misses Alta and Freda Snyder; four brothers, Ernest Snyder, of Americus, and James, George and Delbert Snyder, all of Emporia. Lester Snyder was a member of the Friends Cottonwood Church. The funeral services probably will be held Sunday at 11 o'clock at the Cottonwood Friends Church. Rev. T. J. Strickler and Reverend Haynes will conduct the services. Interment will be in Cottonwood Cemetery.
KILLED ON MOTORCYCLE
LESTER SNYDER, 20 YEARS OLD, DIED FROM INJURY
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Snyder---Accident Happened On West Sixth Avenue Yesterday Morning
Lester Snyder, 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Snyder, who live on West Sixth Avenue, was fatally injured at 9:30 o'clock yesterday morning when he was thrown from his motorcycle. The accident happened while young Snyder was coming to town. No one saw him fall but it is thought his machine hit a rut or bump in the road about 25 feet from the end of the Sixth Avenue paving, and he was thrown violently under the motorcycle. A gash six inches long was cut in the back of his head by some part of the machine and the shock and loss of blood proved fatal.
Several persons living near Sixth Avenue and Chestnut Street reached Snyder soon after he fell and he was rushed to St. Mary's Hospital, where he died six hours later. He did not regain consciousness. According to T. D. Roberts, who employed Snyder at the Emporia Sporting Goods Company for three years, the young man was a good motorcycle rider and accustomed to handling a machine. Mr. Roberts said today there was nothing wrong with the motorcycle and the only explanation of the accident is that Snyder hit a bump in the road and was thrown. He was riding slowly, it is reported.
Lester H. Snyder was born in New London, Iowa, November 8, 1899. He moved to Kansas in 1907. He had lived one and one-half miles west of Emporia on Sixth Avenue for three years. He is survived by his parents; two sisters, Misses Alta and Freda Snyder; four brothers, Ernest Snyder, of Americus, and James, George and Delbert Snyder, all of Emporia. Lester Snyder was a member of the Friends Cottonwood Church. The funeral services probably will be held Sunday at 11 o'clock at the Cottonwood Friends Church. Rev. T. J. Strickler and Reverend Haynes will conduct the services. Interment will be in Cottonwood Cemetery.
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