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Ty THE ASSOCIATED PRESS .Two young Glendive women were killed Sunday night, when their car slammed into a North er Pacific switch engine at a crossing two miles west of Glendive. Their deaths, plus four othars in Montana Saturday, raised the 1887 record highway death toll Lo 23H, compared with 262 off the game date last year, and 280, killed in the previous record year of 1965. ‘The names of the dead in the Glendive crash were being with held by authorities pending no tification of next of kin. High way Patrolman Mervin Tate of Glendive said their car, travel ing north on U.S. 10, struck the middle of the switch engine and bounced back. Tate said the engine, which was towing beet cars, stopped in 82 feet. The engineer was not hurt. Fewr other Montanans were killed in three other accidents in the state Saturday. Dead are: Mrs. Linda Taylor, 18. Gar rison; Peter Clegg, abot 20, Gar rison; Gene M. Broadhead, also about 20, of the Garrison-Deer Lodge area; and Lee Berndl, 17,, Shepherd. Near Deer Lodge Mrs. Taylor, Clegge, and Broadhead were killed and Lor en Stevenson of Deer Lode was injured in a one-car crash on U.S. 10 about ten miles south of Deer Ledge. Powell County Coroner Clayton Jewell said the car in which the young people were riding struck a bridge abut- Mebt. Mrs. Taylor was the moth er of two children. The Berndt boy was killed and three 15-year-old Shepherd boys were injured in a one-car acci dent about 11 miles east of Bil lings on the McGirl Road. Yel lowstone County Coroner Leon ard Larson said their car failed to negotiate a turn at an inter section.
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Independent Record
Helena, Montana, US
Sun, Dec 10, 1967
Page 24
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