Cerro Gordo County IA Archives Obituaries.....Malloy Et Al, Clayton 1939
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Globe-Globe Gazette Apr. 1939
From the Mason City (Cerro Gordo, Iowa) Globe Gazette, Monday, April 10, 1939,
p. 1, col. 7:

Iowa Traffic Toll Passes Mark of '38
110 Killed So Far in State; 6 Die in Weekend Accidents

DES MOINES, (AP) - One hundred and ten persons have been killed in automobile
accidents in Iowa so far in 1939 compared with 109 fatalities in the
corresponding period of 1938.

Of the nine persons killed in the past week, six were weekend victims.

Clayton Malloy, 27, Anthon, Iowa, grocer, was killed Saturday when his car
struck a bridge railing and plunged down an embankment near his home.

Four persons were killed Sunday in a collision between a taxicab and an
Interstate bus near Mondamin, Iowa. The victims, all occupants of the taxicab,
were: Floyd Fan [sic], 40, Omaha, Nebr., Mrs. Floyd Fann, 40, his wife; Raymond
Fallmer, about 28, Mondamin bartender, and Mrs. Mattie Fallmer, about 60, also
of Mondamin, his mother.

David McVey, 28, clerical employe in the Iowa Emergency Relief administration
office in Des Moines, was killed and Don Mason, 21, Pleasantville, Iowa,
criticalley [sic] injured at 12:30 a.m. Sunday when the car, which McVey was
driving left the road at a curve and plunged over an embankment.

At least three Iowans were fatally burned during the past week.


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