Las Vegas Age, December 18, 2003, Clark County, Nevada Copyright © 2003 Gerry Perry This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ LAS VEGAS AGE 6/13/1914 FOUR GOLDFIELD MEN MEET DEATH AUTOMOBILE OVERTURNS WITH FATAL RESULTS TO CITIZENS OF CAMP At 1:40 Tuesday morning on the road from Tonopah to Goldfield, a powerful automobile being driven at 50 miles per hour overturned with fatal rsults to Dr. E. A. WHEELER, owner and driver of the car, Cyrus RICE, Daniel FALVEY and Herman KRIEGER. Dr. WHEELER's chest was crushed, six ribs in the vicinity of his heart were broken and his left shoulder shattered. FALVEY's neck was broken and his skull fractured, he dying almost immediately. RICE died at 5 a.m. and KRIEGER at 11:05 a.m. at St. Mary's hospital in Goldfield. The death of KRIEGER was due to a fracture of the skull near the right ear. His jaw bone was broken in several places as were also the bones of the upper portion of his face. RICE succumbed to internal injuries to the left side of his back and his abdomen. The horrible accident was due primarily to a disabled automobile which had been left partly in the road and which, it is said, the owner had been unable to move out of the way. A large party of Goldfield people had attended the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Tonopah. On the return trip, approaching the disabled machine, the left hind wheel of which was obstructing the road, Dr. WHEELER attempted to turn out. The front wheels of his car successfully climbed the slight rise on the side of the road but the rear wheels dragged along the rut for a distance of 175 feet. Suddenly the rear wheels mounted the rut and the car plunged a distance of 25 feet from the road, turning over on its side. FALVEY was sitting in the lap of KRIEGER beside Dr. WHEELER and his head caught under the wood work of the right front seat. Dr. WHEELER was thrown against the steering wheel and his body fell under it and on top of FALVEY's body. RICE was pinioned on the ground face downward by the hub of the left rear wheel resting on the left side of his back. KRIEGER was thrown about 25 feet from the car striking on his face. BANNISTER, the ony occupant of the car not killed, was also thrown about 25 feet landing in the sagebrush. He escaped with slight injuries but was dazed by the fall. Within a few minutes a car containing four or five other men arrived on the scene and quickly lifted the machine from the bodies of Dr. WHEELER, RICE and FALVEY and all were taken to Goldfield. The death of the four men, all prominent in the business affairs and fraternal circles of Goldfield, plunged the entire camp into profound sadness. Flags on all the buildings of the new town were placed at half mast as a mark of respect to the unfortunate men.