LAKE COUNTY OHIO - OBIT: Fred DAVIS (d. 1933) *********************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Deb Breniser rbcobb@ncweb.com May 13, 2000 *********************************************************************** From the Jefferson Gazette, Ashtabula County, OH, Tuesday, 26 June 1933 TWO KILLED IN CRASH AT DEAD MAN'S CURVE Speeding Car Wrapped Around Electric Light Pole Friday Night Two men were killed and a third seriously injured when the car in which they were riding careened from the highway and wrapped around an electric light pole at Dead Man's Curve on the Jefferson-Ashtabula road about 10:30 Friday night. Fred Davis, 44, Jefferson township, was instantly killed; August Wolfe, 38, Ashtabula, was fatally injured, and Donald Miller, Sonyea, N. Y., driver of the car, suffered a compound fracture of the right leg. Miller was thrown clear from the wrecked auto landing at the bottom of a 15 foot embankment at Hubbard Run. Wolfe was picked up half way down the bank and rushed to the Ashtabula general hospital where he died at three o'clock Saturday morning from a fractured skull, fractured pelvis bone and other internal injuries. Davis' body was crushed and he is believed to have died instantly. The three men had been at the home of Joe Miller, who lives just north of the scene of the accident. They had left the Miller residence about five minutes before the crash to take Davis, who lives just off the Jefferson-Ashtabula road, north of the iron bridge, to his home. They had turned around for some reason not known and were driving back towards Ashtabula when the accident occurred. According to the witnesses the car was being driven at an excessive rate of speed, when the machine careened to the left side of the pavement striking an electric light pole. The machine was completely demolished as it wrapped around the pole. Davis' body was found sitting upright in the front seat of the machine. The other two men were thrown from the wreckage. The accident attracted hundreds of motorists as three ambulances rushed thru the streets of Ashtabula to the scene of the mishap. Cars were lined up north to Bunker Hill. Miller and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Dawney of Danville, N. Y., had been attending the World's Fair at Chicago and en route to their home had stopped over at the home of Joe Miller, an Uncle of the driver of the wrecked car. At the Ashtabula general hospital Miller was reported to be improving. besides the compound fracture of the leg, he was cut and bruised.