Coos County OR Archives News.....MORE ABOUT THE ACCIDENT 1923
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Coquille Valley Sentinel 1923
Coquille Valley Sentinel
June 23, 1923

More about the Accident

  From Judge Mast we learn further details of the tragic death of  J. Finley 
Mast, two or three miles this side of Remote last Friday afternoon.
  Mr. Mast, who was 73 years of age, and his wife and all the camping 
equipment for the family, were in a Ford touring car running behind the Ford 
sedan in which were their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. William Davis, 
and their young daughter; another daughter, Miss Ethel Mast and Sorfonna 
Mannering.
  Just as the sedan rounded a point on the road it passed a team and wagon 
with four. It passed all right and Mr. Mast also started around. Evidently he 
was watching the horses, for the tracks in the loose gravel that he ran out 
close to the bank for a hundred feet. Then, when he realized his danger, he 
must have turned his steering  wheel so suddenly that the rear wheel went over 
he grade. Mrs. Mast says there seemed to be a number of short jumps just 
before the car turned over.
  Mrs. Mast fell or jumped out at the first turn, but the victim of the 
accident was picked out from under the car, after it had bumped over the 
boulders, 75 feet to the river bed below. His neck was broken.
  A few feet farther back, timber stood close to the highway and the car could 
not have fallen far, but there was nothing to stop it where it went over.
  The funeral was held at the old Whittington homestead Sunday afternoon. One 
son, Melvin and his wife came up from Sacramento for the funeral, returning 
home Wednesday afternoon.

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