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past nine o'clock, when Grant's car, going south, crashed headon into one driven by Vernon Hanson of Castle Rock, bound north.on a trip to Vader, Lloyd Hanson, 20, who was riding with Vernon Hanson, was instantly killed. Vernon Hanson, 24, suffered a broken leg, broken arm, broken collar bone, broken nose and both hips were dislocated. ' He is being cared for at a Longview hospital. First report was that the young men were cousins, but this was a mistake. They were unrelated, although having the same family name.Grant’s car caught fire and Grant, Mrs. Morris and Mrs. Bat!iff were so burned beyond recognition that it was not until after midnight Saturday that their identity was established. His car number furnished the only clue and later investigation by Chief Floyd Peasley and Patrolman A1 Blair of the Chehalia police department revealed the names of his two women companions.Vernon Hanson was able to talk immediately following the accident, and told Frank Hubbard, Castle Rock mortician, that he saw the Grant car approaching from the north at a high rate of speed on the wrong side of the highway and brought his car to a complete stop just before his car was hit. The Hanson car was turned over on the.highway. The Grant car was completely wrecked by the impact. It was an Oldsmobile roadster and all three occupants were in the driver's seat.The- car burned more than an hour so fiercely that nothing could be done toward saving the occupants, and it was only after Castle Rock firemen applied chemicals some time that it was possible for the bodies tlt;? be removed to the Scholz. Huhbard chapel at Castle Rock.of Seward Morris of Chehalis, who now lives in Seattle. She also was employed by Ed Murphy at the Quill cafe, where sue had worked two years or more,Mrs. Morris was Eva Jackson, a former Castle Rock girl who was raised and attended school there. Mrs. Henry Price, wife of the night marshal of Castle Rock, is an aunt of Mrs. JM orris. The Jatter left Castle Rock about eight years ago after her father, William Jackson, was ’killed on a logging, railroad speeder at Vernonia. In addition to the relatives named, a sister of Mrs. Morris. Mrs. Florence Studebaker, lives at Cle Eluzn. Funeral services were held at Castle Rock Monday, following the return of Mrs. Morris’ ashes.Miss Ratliff's body was held unclaimed at Castle Roesc following her death .while an effort was made through friends at Spokane, where she formerly lived, to locate her mother. She was 21 years old and since October had been employed at the Quill cafe at Chehalis. Monday local union friends had the body brought to the Fissel Funeral Home.Report here is that Saturday evening about 7 o'clock Grant, accompanied by Mrs. Morris and Miss Rat-: liff, left Chehalis, presumably for the] celebration at Mary’s Corner. To-, ward midnight the news of their deaths came. An auto camp owner: north of where the wreck occurred,: estimated that as Grant whizzed past( his place his speed must have beam around 90 miles an hour and that he: was on the wrong side of the road., The ear is reported to have been spe- ^ dally geared for speed. It is stated also, that the women, were screaming j when the auto camp was passed and | it was but a few moments_ later that-+Tia fatal crash occurred with the car
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Chehalis Bee Nugget
Chehalis, Washington, US
Fri, Jul 10, 1931
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