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Vernon Hanson was able to talk immediately following the accident, and told Frank Hubbard, Castle Bock 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 OldsmobiJe 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. Hubbard chapel at Castle Rock,Prosecuting Attorney Cecil Hallin of Cowlitz county, who is coroner; Sheriff G. H, Gray and deputies and State Traffic Officer L. G. Ray were at the wreck early investigating and controlling traffic. Prosecutor Hal-lia believes that there is little question as to Grant’s responsibility for the wreck. The accident took place just north of where the Spirit and Silver Lake road cuts off and about half a mile south of the Green Grasshopper cafe. Grant's car was completely bunted and the Hanson one was a total wreck alongside the highway.At the hospital Vernon Hanson stated that he did not hear a sound from the three occupants of Grant's ear, which gives strength to the belief that they were never conscious of the fire that enveloped them. Position of their bodies indicated that theymaHft na n-r-f + ncronpsince 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 Ratliff, left Chehalis, presumably for the celebration at Mary’s Corner. Toward 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 been around 90 miles an horn and that he was on the wrong side of the road. The car is reported to have been, specially geared for speed. It is stated also, that the women, were screaming when the auto camp was passed and it was but a few moments^ later that the fatal crash occurred with the car in which were the Hansons,Grant had the reputation locally of being a wild driver, police officers stating that he had been, picked up; here and elsewhere for traffic viola-, tions. Whether or not he had been drinking is not certain, but Sunday a state patrolman, stated here that hehad. , . .. ,Liovd Hanson, the fourth victim ofthe wreck, was 20 years old and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Han-, son, prominent Castle Rock residents. He was a grandson of ex-Mayor John Becker of Vader, the families being widely known in southern Lewis ana northern Cowlitz counties.Hanson Funeral Yesterday.Vader, July 9.—Funeral serviceswere held here today at Grace Evangelical church for Lloyd Hanson, victim rtf Saturday night's auto crash
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Chehalis Bee Nugget
Chehalis, Washington, US
Fri, Jul 10, 1931
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