Machine Skids Off Highway And Smashes Into Culvert
Mrs. Orville Adams, 30, 105 Lyman Street, East Kingsford, Michigan, was fatally injured & her husband & another man, Walter McMahon, 27, Marquette, Michigan, were critically injured in an accident yesterday on US Hwy 2, a short distance from Abrams. Mrs. Adams died yesterday after in the Oconto hospital. She received a skull fracture, jaw fracture, chest injuries, her left leg was almost severed when it caught between the gear shift lever & instrument board of the car. McMahon was driving the car & heading south. Tracks in the snow indicated that the car 1st skidded to the right, then swerved to the left & crashed head-on into a cement culvert. The impact drove the engine back into the front seat, where Mrs. Adams was sitting between the 2 men. Mrs. Adams is the former Florence Beekman, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Anton Beekman, Oconto. (Wednesday, December 22, 1937, Daily News, Iron Mountain, Dickinson, Michigan)
Machine Skids Off Highway And Smashes Into Culvert
Mrs. Orville Adams, 30, 105 Lyman Street, East Kingsford, Michigan, was fatally injured & her husband & another man, Walter McMahon, 27, Marquette, Michigan, were critically injured in an accident yesterday on US Hwy 2, a short distance from Abrams. Mrs. Adams died yesterday after in the Oconto hospital. She received a skull fracture, jaw fracture, chest injuries, her left leg was almost severed when it caught between the gear shift lever & instrument board of the car. McMahon was driving the car & heading south. Tracks in the snow indicated that the car 1st skidded to the right, then swerved to the left & crashed head-on into a cement culvert. The impact drove the engine back into the front seat, where Mrs. Adams was sitting between the 2 men. Mrs. Adams is the former Florence Beekman, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Anton Beekman, Oconto. (Wednesday, December 22, 1937, Daily News, Iron Mountain, Dickinson, Michigan)
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