Obit of Creech, Harold H - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 03 Feb 2008 Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::NOT LISTED Surnames: Creech, Bullard, Barton, Hall, Laws Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/7186 Internal injuries received when the truck in which he was riding with four other men struck a bridge north of Cheyenne Saturday night, proved fatal to Harold Creech, 17-year-old Durham youth, here Saturday afternoon. He died a 4 p.m. Sunday, August 1, 1937, less than 24 hours after the accident occurred on U.S. Highway 283 at the Dead Indian creek bridge about eight miles north of Cheyenne. Two companions, also injured in the wreck, remained in critical conditions at the hospital here. They are Orville Bullard, 25 years old, of Grand, driver and owner of the truck, and Jack Barton, 16 years old, of Durham a passenger. Sergeant Dub Wheeler of the state highway patrol who completed the investigation here following removal of the injured men from Cheyenne to Elk City by ambulance, said the men were riding in a truck enroute from Cheyenne to their homes in northwestern Roger Mills County. Bullard and one of his companion were on the truck seat and the others were riding in the grain bed, with which the truck was equipped. The truck had no cab. STRUCK BRIDGE RAILING The patrolman said the men told him dust blinded their vision and the truck crashed into the west railing of the Dead Indian creek bridge. Bullard sustained a double fracture of the left leg and cuts about the body. Barton's condition was regarded as highly critical. His skull was fractured both front and rear. The other men in the truck, Doc Hall, 19, of Grand, and Dave Laws, 55, were said to have been uninjured or escaped with minor bruises. Creech also suffered a double fracture of the left leg. However, internal injuries in the abdomen and chest were blamed for his death. August 2, 1937 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html