Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Farnsworth, Buford, Ford, Mrs L. P. and Wanda, 1930
25 Jan 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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FARNSWORTH, BUFORD
FORD, MRS. L. P.
FORD, WANDA
(10 Nov. 1930, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
FOSS ACCIDENT FATAL TO THREE.
Third Person Dies Early Today in Hospital at Clinton.
The death early today of Buford Farnsworth, 28, of Butler, in a Clinton
hospital brought the toll of a highway accident three miles east of Foss
last night to three, according to information received here.  Farnsworth
had been unconscious since the automobile in which he and two companions
were riding collided with a truck, killing two people instantly.
Mrs. L. P. Ford, 69, of Foss, and her granddaughter, Wanda Ford, 7,
occupants of the truck which Mr. Ford was driving, died soon after the
impact.  The family in the truck was returning from Stafford where the day
had been spent visiting relatives, it was reported.
The accident occurred between 6:30 and 6:45 o'clock last evening.  The car
in which Farnsworth, Wallace Beckham, of Hammon and Oscar Dunning, of
Canute, were riding crashed head-on into the truck in which the Ford
family was riding, according to reports sent here.
Dunning and Beckham were in critical condition today and hopes for
recovery were slight, it is understood.  Four occupants of the truck were
suffering injuries.  They are: N. G. Ford, of Stafford, son of L. P. Ford;
Mrs. N. G. Ford and her small son, and L. P. Ford.  The elder Mr. Ford was
given slight chance to recover, reports said.
Investigations were being conducted by Willis Cook, county attorney of
Custer county, and Washita county officers.  Whether or not charges would
be filed was not learned by noon today.  Contradicting stories of
witnesses brought indecision into the probe, it is understood.
Both the automobile and the truck were demolished by the force of the
impact followed by both vehicles rolling off the shoulder of the highway,
it was reported.

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