Cook County IL Archives Obituaries.....Lynch, Bert L 1907
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Cook County Herald, Oct 4, 1907
Cook County Herald, Arlington Heights IL
Oct 4, 1907

Drives Car Over Quarry Edge

Bert L. Lynch Fatally Hurt - Mad Impulse, says Companion

Bert L. Lynch, 21 years old, of Chicago, drove an automobile over the edge of 
a stone quarry near Summit, and in the fall of seventy feet to the bottom of 
the stone pit received injuries which were fatal. John Joss, a chauffeur, the 
only other occupant of the car, escaped almost uninjured by grasping a post on 
the brink of the cliff and holding fast as the machine dashed over. In the 
leap through the air Lynch was thrown from the automobile and struck the stone 
floor a dozen feet from the machine. Following the accident Joss declared that 
Lynch had been seized by a mad impulse to drive the machine into the abyss. 
Suddenly he turned sharply to the left, crossed the tracks of a trolley line, 
drove through the weeds at the roadsie and through a board fence before he 
struggled to get possession of the steering gear and the brakes, but he says 
Lynch pushed him aside. The car belonged to an automobile company which had 
expected to sell the machine to Lynch.

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