Obituary of ELMER FLOYD MCDANIEL, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.  
Microfilm at the LaSalle Parish Library located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.

Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for 
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.





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Date:  December 7, 1933, Thursday

Headline:  E. F. McDaniel is Killed in Wreck of Auto Sunday
Sub-headline:  J. D. Roberts also Hurt in Car Crash Near Columbia

Elmer Floyd McDaniel, 17, of Clarks, was instantly killed, and J. D. Roberts, 
23, manager of the LaSalle automobile company at Olla, was badly injured when 
the automobile in which they were riding, owned and driven by Roberts, 
crashed into a parked car on the Columbia highway about ten miles south of 
Monroe shortly after 9 o'clock Sunday night.  Two Negro women in the parked 
car were also hurt, but not seriously.

Dr. W. L. Bendel, assistant coroner, acting in the absence of Coroner C. L. 
Mengis, who was out of town, conducted an investigation of the accident.  He 
said McDaniel's death was caused by a broken neck.

Roberts, whose home is in Kelly, was conveyed to the St. Francis Sanitarium, 
where attending physicians said he had a good chance to recover if 
complications did not set in.  He was suffering from a laceration over the 
right eye and forehead, bruises on the right leg and knee and a bruised right 
elbow.  Both men were thrown from the car by the impact of the two 
automobiles.

The parked automobile was occupied by six Negroes.  The Negroes had stopped 
to fix a flat tire, it was said, but did not have their automobile lights 
burning.

Roberts, who was on his way to Monroe to complete some business in 
preparation for attending a meeting of automobile dealers at New Orleans 
Thursday, said he picked McDaniel up at Clarks when the youth learned he was 
coming here and wanted to come with him.

In a dazed condition and suffering from shock, Roberts first told authorities 
that the boy with him was Ivy Dunn.  After recovering somewhat, however, he 
said he did not know the boy's last name and knew him only as "Sammy."  It 
was some time following the accident before identification of McDaniel was 
made.

An automobile on its way toward Columbia partially blinded him, Roberts said, 
as he neared the Negroes' car and failed to see it until he was almost upon 
it.  He swerved to miss the parked car, but struck it with his right front 
wheel, and he and McDaniel were hurled from the car, he said.

The funeral of McDaniel was held at Grayson Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock.  
Surviving McDaniel are his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Oher McDaniel; 
three sisters, Zadie Mae, Etheline and Helene and two brothers, Willard and 
Samuel.