Egan, William (Bill) - Washington County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Lovena Norton    (Deceased)   20 Jan 2008
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Nov 18, 1945

Killed When He Is Smashed Into North Of Dewey

William (Bill) Egan, Dewey truck driver was killed and Ed Ogans, 
Negro of the Dewey community, suffered a fractured collar bone in a 
collision about 7:30 last night between two trucks at the Post Oak 
corner about three miles north of Dewey on Highway 75. Ogans was 
broght to the hospital here where he was treated and hospitalized.

The collision occurred when the truck driven north by Egan turned 
west into the section road and was struck by a truck loaded with pipe 
line skids and traveling in the same direction. Thomas Daniel York, 
driver of the second truck told authoroties that he started to pass 
the Egan truck and was unaware that the Egan truck planned to turn 
into the side road.

York told authorities that he signaled the Egan truck that he wished 
to pass but that he failed to receive and answwering signal. York 
said as he attempted to pass the Egan truck, the driver turned into 
the side road and the collision followed.

Deputy Sheriff Benny Vanatta who investigated the accident gave this 
account:

Egan, driving his empty truck north, was taking the Negro to his 
home, which is west of highway 75 at the turn one-half mile north of 
the Post Oak bridge. 

York, driving a loaded Parkhill Trucking company (Tulsa) semi-trailer 
truck of pipe line skids (timbers similar to railorad ties) told 
Vanatte that the signaled Egan that he wished to pass, but that he 
failed to receive an answering signal from Egan. York said he pulled 
along side Egan to pass him, and that Egan turned to the left. York 
said he also tried to turn west but it was too late.

The front of Egan's truck hooed the rear wheel of the semi-trailer 
and both machines nosed into a big ditch side by side just north of 
the intersection, the timbers from Egan's truck plunging onto the cab 
of Egan's machine.

Neither truck overturned.

The first men on the scene following the wreck were, Bob Stout of 
rural rout 2, Bartlesville, who was driving a truck; and Gibb Welch 
of Dewey, who was driving a car.

Eagan and Ogans were thrown clear of their truck and were found lying 
on the ground about five feet apart near the machine. Egan was dead 
when help arrived.

Ogans said last night at the hsopital that the met Egan in Dewey and 
that the latter had as on several occasions in the past, volunteered 
to drive him to his home, three miles north and one mile west of 
Dewey. He said that all he could remember was that as they started to 
turn into the side road, the other truck struck their machine.

Egan, who was 34 years odl, is survived by his widow, Mrs, Dorothy 
Egan, one daughter, Billie; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Egan of 
Bartlesville; four brothers; Lloyd Egan of Richmond, Calif.,James, 
who returned recently from four years serving in the European 
theater, Edward who is serving with the armed forces in the 
Philipppines and Jerome Egan of Bartlesville, and two sisters, Mrs. 
Margaret Walter, Santee, Calif., and Mrs. Elinor Roller, Wood Lake, 
Calif.

Funeral services will be ehld at the First Christian Church in Dewey 
and burial will be in the Dewey ceemtery. The time of the services 
was indefinite last night. The body was at the Moore Funeral home. 

In another collision; a car driven by Mrs. Louise Brown of Dewey, 
side-swiped with a car driven by Arnold Moore on the Dewy highway, 
about a mile north of Bartlesville. No one was injoured. Moore was 
enrout to the scene of the accident when the collision occurred. 
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