Allegany County MD Archives News.....Fatal Crash Kills Three, Injures Two, 1940
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Evening Times, Cumberland, Maryland, 22 Jun 1940: 
"FATAL CRASH KILLS THREE, INJURES TWO, Speeding Sedan Plows Into 
Car Headed Opposite Direction On Braddock Road Curve-NEWSBOY 
ESCAPES-Both Cars Demolished In One of Worst Wrecks In Allegany 
County History-Three persons were dead and two others lay seriously 
injured this morning as the result of a crash caused when a powerful 
1940 sedan sped around a curve of Braddock Road and crashed into a 
car headed the opposite direction.  Richard T. Jenkins, 32, of 
Bowling Green, driver of the sedan coming toward Cumberland, and 
Mrs. Margaret Sterns Lear, 26, wife of John L. Lear, 325 Beall 
street, riding with her husband in the other car, were instantly 
killed in the crash, which occurred about 6 p.m. yesterday.  John H. 
Cain, 31, of Ridgeway Terrace, a Celanese worker who was riding with 
Jenkins, died in Memorial Hospital at 8:15 p.m. The injured men were 
John L. Lear, 26, a Celanese worker, and John McKinney, 36, a 
bartender at the Maryland taproom.  Lear was in serious condition in 
Memorial Hospital this morning whith a fractured left arm and sever 
cuts and bruises about the head and body.  McKinney, who was in fair 
condition this morning, suffered a compound fracture of the left leg 
and severe cuts and bruises about the head and body...{description 
of accident continues} Jenkins, a charge hand, was wll-known to his 
fellow Celanese workers and also to patrons of the Red Star Tavern, 
near Lonaconing, which he operated with his brother, James Jankins, 
of Gilmore, moving to Bowling Green in recent weeks.  Surviving, 
besides his brothers, James, are his wife, Mrs. Elsie Moore Jenkins, 
formerly of Barton; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Henry Jenkins; 
five sisters, Mrs. Isabelle Nightengale and Mrs. Sarah Bucklews, 
Lonaconing, Miss Matilda and Miss Mary Martha Jenkins, Gilmore; and 
Mrs. Betty Coleman, of Ohio; and four other brothers, Harry and 
Benjamin Jenkins, Gilmore; Joseph Jenkins, Westernport; and Edgar 
Jenkins, of Ohio.  Cain was a graduate of Beall High School, 
Frostburg, Frostburg State Teachers College and the University of 
Maryland and had taught school several years at Kitzmiller.  He was 
a member of St. Patrick's Catholic church, Cumberland.  He was a son 
of Mrs. Anna Cain and the late James Cain.  Surviving are his mother, 
at Vale Summit; his wife, Mrs. Edith Kelch Cain, formerly of Roanoke, 
Va.; two sisters, Mrs. William Joyce, Frostburg, and Miss Helen Cain, 
Vale Summit; and three brothers, Leonard, Frostburg, and Melvin and 
Thomas, Vale Summit. Cain's body will be taken to the home of his 
mother."



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