Clackamas-Marion County OR Archives Obituaries.....Olivetti, N. June 16, 1925
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Canby Herald June 23,1927
Car drops 100 feet One Killed Instantly
Four Passengers Seriuosly Injured;One May Never Recover,is Latest Report
Martin Danielson,Canby truck Driver,met with the startling experience of 
winessing an automobile go over hte embankment at Coalco hill five miles east 
of hereThursday mrning,falling one hundred feet to the railroad truck,after 
the machine had collided with his truck and a sean which was running slowly on 
the highway back of him.The car was owned and operated by N. Olivetti of 
Eureka,Cal.,and the passengers were his father in law,Herman Floegel,Misses 
Georgie Viddto,Alvina Olivetti and Bertha Dilley.Mr.Olivetti was  killed 
instantly and all passengers were more or less injured.The carburned at the 
bottom of the hill after landing bottom side up.
Accoring to Mr.Danielson's reprt of the accident he was traveling southward on 
the highway,and as neared the top of Coalco hill he noticed the big Buick 
sedan traveling north at a rapid rate of speed.
Danielson turned his truck to the right as far as possible without striking 
the railing,hoping to prevent a serious accident which at first glance seemed 
inevitable,the driver apparently lost control of the car,and it slid with 
wheels locked and seriuosly wrecked Danielsons truck.After making a couple of 
turns,the machne hit a sedan  back of Danielsons truck and then turn to the 
left,going  throguh the railing and over the embankment more than 100 feet 
from where the truck stopped.The sedan,owned by a man from Tacoma,was damaged 
considerably,but the only persons injured were those in the California car.
Mrs.Georgie Vidito of Tillamook,sustained a broken vertebrae in her neck and 
died two days later.She was at the Oregon City hospital where the injured 
passengers were immediately taken following the accident.Her body was pralyzed 
below the arms.the other injured passengers were released from the hospital 
Saturday.
The body of Olivetti was shipped to Eureka Saturday,passing through Canby on 
the Southern Pacific train early in the morning.
Hundreds of tourists stopped at the scene of the accident during the day,and 
within a few minutes after the big machinhe pluinged down the hill the highway 
was lined with cars whos occupants were viewing the wreckage,it is said to  
have been the worst accident that has occurre in this community in years.How 
any occupant of the machine escaped alive is a mystery to all who viewed the 
situation

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