Beckham County, OK - Deaths: George W. Husted, 1926
09 April 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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HUSTED, GEORGE W.
(21 Jan 1926, Thursday, Texola Tribune, Texola, Beckham Co, OK):
Geo. W. Husted, age 42, of Sweetwater, Oklahoma, is dead, and Claud Brown,
age 45, a Wellington, Texas, man is seriously injured and is now in the
hospital at Shamrock, Texas, as a result of a car wreck on the
Shamrock-Wellington road Sunday morning about eleven o'clock.
According to Editor Bones of Shamrock, Texas, the men were driving at a
rather rapid clip going southward toward Wellington.  On approaching the
bridge over the first little stream they were going too fast to make the
turn to get on the bridge and went over the creek bank into the narrow
stream, the car turning over several times.  The embankment is said to be
about 12 feet deep.  The car driven was a 22 model Cadillac and was a
complete wreck.
Husted was killed outright his head and body being badly crushed.  He was
underneath the wrecked car and it required some little time to get the car
off of him as it was wedged down in the bed of the stream.  Brown was
scrambling to get out of the wreck when the first people on the scene
arrived and was in an unconscious condition.  He was taken immediately to
the Shamrock hospital.  He received a broken arm and had several ribs
caved in.  He will probably recover.
At the place this wreck occurred is said to be one of the most dangerous
turns in the country.  The bridge is very narrow.  It sets angling across
the road and you approach it from a steep hill.
Rev. J. N. Tinkle of this city, pastor of the local Methodist church,
assisted Rev. Russell of the Bulo Baptist church in conducting the funeral
of Geo. W. Husted who was killed in auto accident south of Shamrock.  The
services were held Monday and Husted was buried in the Bulo cemetery.
(28 Jan 1926, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Geo. W. Hulstead (sic), 42 years old, a farmer of the Sweetwater
community, was instantly killed and Claude Brown, 45 years old of
Wellington, Texas, his brother-in-law, was seriously injured when their
car jumped an embankment as they were making an "S" turn on highway No. 4,
two miles south of Shamrock, Texas, about 1 o'clock Sunday morning,
January 17th, 1926.
Brown was thrown clear of the wreckage and Hulstead was pinned beneath the
car in a creek where it had fallen after apparently turning over three
times.  The car was completely demolished.
Hulstead is survived by a wife and four children.  His body was brought to
Erick Sunday, where it was taken care of by the Fatheree Undertaking
Establishment.  He was burried (sic) Monday afternoon at Sweetwater,
Oklahoma (Buffalo Cemetery).
Brown is being cared for in a Shamrock hospital.  He is suffering with a
broken arm, and a few broken ribs.  A report was out the he had died, but
this report is untrue as friends in Shamrock state he is recovering and is
not in a serious condition. - Beckham Co. Democrat.

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