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Stockton Record, pp1-2, 5, 16 Feb 1948:
Six Killed, 5 in One Accident in County's Week-End Traffic
Eight Other Persons Injured, Sending Death Toll Up to 16 for Year
(Picture inset with caption: FIVE DEAD-Five persons perished in the two wrecked cars pictured above. The tragedy occurred early last night at Lathrop and Durham Ferry Roads when one car (foreground) went through a stop sign at a high rate of speed, according to highway patrolmen. The accident was classed as one of San Joaquin County's worst and jumped the 1948 death toll to 15. Another weekend traffic death raised the toll to 16-double of last year's at this time. Both cars were thrown over a hedge by the impact and came to rest in a small area bordering a home on the southwest corner of the intersection. Another view of wreckage on page 5.)
Life was cheap and blood flowed freely on San Joaquin County highways over the week-end as six in auto accidents and eight others were injured, six of them seriously.
A single, terrific crash shortly after 7 p.m. yesterday at the Durham Ferry and Lathrop Roads wiped out the lives of five persons and sent four people in the two cars involved to the San Joaquin General Hospital with multiple undetermined injuries.
The sixth death victim was a motorcyclist who was crushed against a tree near Waterloo when his vehicle ran out of control after hitting loose gravel and bounded off the highway.
THE DEAD:
Ellis Wallace, 50, 2814 W. Rose.
Marie Wallace, 43, his wife.
Joey Eck, 3, same address, their grandson.
Ernest Roach, 48, Shady Grove Auto Court, Manteca.
Elmer Goings, 39, Rte. 1, Box 394, Manteca.
Arthur C. Marks, 36, 219 S. Stanislaus.
Seriously injured:
Lillie Goings, 37, wife of Elmer.
Clara Roach, 37, wife of Ernest.
Lloyd J. Eck, 25, 2814 W. Rose, father of Joey.
Mildred Eck, 23, his wife.
Felix B. Tacato, 29, Box 84, Lathrop.
Thomas H. LaFaber, 56, 711 E. Second.
Less seriously hurt were Denny J. Randall, 30, Ripon; Jack Hutchins, 19, Lockeford, and Mrs. Elyira Dimas, 55, 145 E. Worth.
The accident was the worst in this county, from a fatality standpoint, since September 3, 1944, when seven children and a truck driver died when their car hit a train in French Camp. It brought to 16 the 1948 highway toll. Last year on this date eight people had been killed.
HITS SIDE OF CAR
According to stories given highway patrolmen, the district attorney's and coroner's offices, a car driven by Mrs. Lillie Goings, 37, Rt. 1, Box 394, Manteca, wife of one of those killed, ploughed with terrific force into the side of another driven by Lloyd J. Eck, 25, 2814 E. Rose, father of the dead child.
Both cars were hurled over a nearby hedge into the yard of a house at the intersection.
Patrolmen James Bryant and Don Cooper, on the scene moments after the crash, found all the victims still alive but three of them near death. Three-year-old Joey was crushed beneath his father's car partly buried in the soft earth. Mrs. Wallace was half under the vehicle, part of her body still projecting inside the car through a rear window. Roach was pinned beneath the other machine.
AMBULANCES CALLED
Extra ambulances were summoned but by the time they arrived, the boy and the Wallace's were dead. Roach died en route to the San Joaquin General Hospital and Goings eight hours later.
Eck and his wife, Mrs. Roach and Mrs. Goings all were reported in "only fair" condition at the hospital today.
Officers and ambulance drivers reported they were "seriously handicapped" by morbidly curious spectators who pressed in so close to the scene that they hampered efforts to release the trapped victims and load them into ambulances. The thrill seekers even blocked the ambulances when they were seeking to rush from the scene in an effort to get the seriously injured to medical aid.
EXPLAINS CAUSE
According to the patrolmen, Lt. Walter Champreux of the sheriff's office and Deputy District Attorney Jack Briscoe, evidence indicated the accident was caused by Mrs. Going's car going through a stop sign at "an excessive rate of speed."
Briscoe said he was "continuing the investigation with a view toward filing manslaughter charges against Mrs. Goings.
Immediately after patrolmen arrived, the French Camp Fire District equipment was summoned when the two wrecked autos began smoking and threatened to burst into flame.
Page 5: DEATH CARS-The light-colored Mercury (shown above in foreground) was a death car for three persons early last night while two others perished in the second vehicle. The cars collided 10 miles south of Stockton at the Lathrop and Durham Ferry roads intersection. Of the nine passengers in the two cars, five were killed and four suffered major injuries. The injured were taken to San Joaquin General Hospital where their condition remains "serious."
Stockton Record, p.21, Tuesday, 17 Feb 1948:
Deaths
ROACH-Near Manteca, February 15, 1948, Earnest [sic] W. Roach, beloved husband of Clara Roach of Manteca; father of Troyce Roach of Unted States Army; Mrs. Joyce M. Menshowe [Menshew], and Mrs. Floretta Hope of Ripon; Travis Roach of Manteca, Mrs. Blanch Cargal, Mrs. Beatrice Elliott, Mrs. Rosie Hinton, Mrs. Ona Allen, Jack and Bill Roach, all of Oklahoma; son of Mrs. Sarah Roach of Oklahoma; a native of Oklahoma, aged 49 years, 3 months, 8 days.
Funeral services were held today (Tuesday, Feb. 17, 1948) at 2 p.m. in the chapel of P. L. Fry & Son, Manteca. Remains will be forwarded tonight to Altus, Okla., for services and interment.
NOTES: Durham Ferry RD turns into Airport Way as it leads into Manteca, intersecting Lathrop RD at the far northwest corner of Manteca, east of Lathrop, and south of Stockton.
Stockton Record, pp1-2, 5, 16 Feb 1948:
Six Killed, 5 in One Accident in County's Week-End Traffic
Eight Other Persons Injured, Sending Death Toll Up to 16 for Year
(Picture inset with caption: FIVE DEAD-Five persons perished in the two wrecked cars pictured above. The tragedy occurred early last night at Lathrop and Durham Ferry Roads when one car (foreground) went through a stop sign at a high rate of speed, according to highway patrolmen. The accident was classed as one of San Joaquin County's worst and jumped the 1948 death toll to 15. Another weekend traffic death raised the toll to 16-double of last year's at this time. Both cars were thrown over a hedge by the impact and came to rest in a small area bordering a home on the southwest corner of the intersection. Another view of wreckage on page 5.)
Life was cheap and blood flowed freely on San Joaquin County highways over the week-end as six in auto accidents and eight others were injured, six of them seriously.
A single, terrific crash shortly after 7 p.m. yesterday at the Durham Ferry and Lathrop Roads wiped out the lives of five persons and sent four people in the two cars involved to the San Joaquin General Hospital with multiple undetermined injuries.
The sixth death victim was a motorcyclist who was crushed against a tree near Waterloo when his vehicle ran out of control after hitting loose gravel and bounded off the highway.
THE DEAD:
Ellis Wallace, 50, 2814 W. Rose.
Marie Wallace, 43, his wife.
Joey Eck, 3, same address, their grandson.
Ernest Roach, 48, Shady Grove Auto Court, Manteca.
Elmer Goings, 39, Rte. 1, Box 394, Manteca.
Arthur C. Marks, 36, 219 S. Stanislaus.
Seriously injured:
Lillie Goings, 37, wife of Elmer.
Clara Roach, 37, wife of Ernest.
Lloyd J. Eck, 25, 2814 W. Rose, father of Joey.
Mildred Eck, 23, his wife.
Felix B. Tacato, 29, Box 84, Lathrop.
Thomas H. LaFaber, 56, 711 E. Second.
Less seriously hurt were Denny J. Randall, 30, Ripon; Jack Hutchins, 19, Lockeford, and Mrs. Elyira Dimas, 55, 145 E. Worth.
The accident was the worst in this county, from a fatality standpoint, since September 3, 1944, when seven children and a truck driver died when their car hit a train in French Camp. It brought to 16 the 1948 highway toll. Last year on this date eight people had been killed.
HITS SIDE OF CAR
According to stories given highway patrolmen, the district attorney's and coroner's offices, a car driven by Mrs. Lillie Goings, 37, Rt. 1, Box 394, Manteca, wife of one of those killed, ploughed with terrific force into the side of another driven by Lloyd J. Eck, 25, 2814 E. Rose, father of the dead child.
Both cars were hurled over a nearby hedge into the yard of a house at the intersection.
Patrolmen James Bryant and Don Cooper, on the scene moments after the crash, found all the victims still alive but three of them near death. Three-year-old Joey was crushed beneath his father's car partly buried in the soft earth. Mrs. Wallace was half under the vehicle, part of her body still projecting inside the car through a rear window. Roach was pinned beneath the other machine.
AMBULANCES CALLED
Extra ambulances were summoned but by the time they arrived, the boy and the Wallace's were dead. Roach died en route to the San Joaquin General Hospital and Goings eight hours later.
Eck and his wife, Mrs. Roach and Mrs. Goings all were reported in "only fair" condition at the hospital today.
Officers and ambulance drivers reported they were "seriously handicapped" by morbidly curious spectators who pressed in so close to the scene that they hampered efforts to release the trapped victims and load them into ambulances. The thrill seekers even blocked the ambulances when they were seeking to rush from the scene in an effort to get the seriously injured to medical aid.
EXPLAINS CAUSE
According to the patrolmen, Lt. Walter Champreux of the sheriff's office and Deputy District Attorney Jack Briscoe, evidence indicated the accident was caused by Mrs. Going's car going through a stop sign at "an excessive rate of speed."
Briscoe said he was "continuing the investigation with a view toward filing manslaughter charges against Mrs. Goings.
Immediately after patrolmen arrived, the French Camp Fire District equipment was summoned when the two wrecked autos began smoking and threatened to burst into flame.
Page 5: DEATH CARS-The light-colored Mercury (shown above in foreground) was a death car for three persons early last night while two others perished in the second vehicle. The cars collided 10 miles south of Stockton at the Lathrop and Durham Ferry roads intersection. Of the nine passengers in the two cars, five were killed and four suffered major injuries. The injured were taken to San Joaquin General Hospital where their condition remains "serious."
Stockton Record, p.21, Tuesday, 17 Feb 1948:
Deaths
ROACH-Near Manteca, February 15, 1948, Earnest [sic] W. Roach, beloved husband of Clara Roach of Manteca; father of Troyce Roach of Unted States Army; Mrs. Joyce M. Menshowe [Menshew], and Mrs. Floretta Hope of Ripon; Travis Roach of Manteca, Mrs. Blanch Cargal, Mrs. Beatrice Elliott, Mrs. Rosie Hinton, Mrs. Ona Allen, Jack and Bill Roach, all of Oklahoma; son of Mrs. Sarah Roach of Oklahoma; a native of Oklahoma, aged 49 years, 3 months, 8 days.
Funeral services were held today (Tuesday, Feb. 17, 1948) at 2 p.m. in the chapel of P. L. Fry & Son, Manteca. Remains will be forwarded tonight to Altus, Okla., for services and interment.
NOTES: Durham Ferry RD turns into Airport Way as it leads into Manteca, intersecting Lathrop RD at the far northwest corner of Manteca, east of Lathrop, and south of Stockton.
Born in Warren, old Greer, Oklahoma Territory...
Stockton Record, pp1-2, 5, 16 Feb 1948:
Six Killed, 5 in One Accident in County's Week-End Traffic
Eight Other Persons Injured, Sending Death Toll Up to 16 for Year
(Picture inset with caption: FIVE DEAD-Five persons perished in the two wrecked cars pictured above. The tragedy occurred early last night at Lathrop and Durham Ferry Roads when one car (foreground) went through a stop sign at a high rate of speed, according to highway patrolmen. The accident was classed as one of San Joaquin County's worst and jumped the 1948 death toll to 15. Another weekend traffic death raised the toll to 16-double of last year's at this time. Both cars were thrown over a hedge by the impact and came to rest in a small area bordering a home on the southwest corner of the intersection. Another view of wreckage on page 5.)
Life was cheap and blood flowed freely on San Joaquin County highways over the week-end as six in auto accidents and eight others were injured, six of them seriously.
A single, terrific crash shortly after 7 p.m. yesterday at the Durham Ferry and Lathrop Roads wiped out the lives of five persons and sent four people in the two cars involved to the San Joaquin General Hospital with multiple undetermined injuries.
The sixth death victim was a motorcyclist who was crushed against a tree near Waterloo when his vehicle ran out of control after hitting loose gravel and bounded off the highway.
THE DEAD:
Ellis Wallace, 50, 2814 W. Rose.
Marie Wallace, 43, his wife.
Joey Eck, 3, same address, their grandson.
Ernest Roach, 48, Shady Grove Auto Court, Manteca.
Elmer Goings, 39, Rte. 1, Box 394, Manteca.
Arthur C. Marks, 36, 219 S. Stanislaus.
Seriously injured:
Lillie Goings, 37, wife of Elmer.
Clara Roach, 37, wife of Ernest.
Lloyd J. Eck, 25, 2814 W. Rose, father of Joey.
Mildred Eck, 23, his wife.
Felix B. Tacato, 29, Box 84, Lathrop.
Thomas H. LaFaber, 56, 711 E. Second.
Less seriously hurt were Denny J. Randall, 30, Ripon; Jack Hutchins, 19, Lockeford, and Mrs. Elyira Dimas, 55, 145 E. Worth.
The accident was the worst in this county, from a fatality standpoint, since September 3, 1944, when seven children and a truck driver died when their car hit a train in French Camp. It brought to 16 the 1948 highway toll. Last year on this date eight people had been killed.
HITS SIDE OF CAR
According to stories given highway patrolmen, the district attorney's and coroner's offices, a car driven by Mrs. Lillie Goings, 37, Rt. 1, Box 394, Manteca, wife of one of those killed, ploughed with terrific force into the side of another driven by Lloyd J. Eck, 25, 2814 E. Rose, father of the dead child.
Both cars were hurled over a nearby hedge into the yard of a house at the intersection.
Patrolmen James Bryant and Don Cooper, on the scene moments after the crash, found all the victims still alive but three of them near death. Three-year-old Joey was crushed beneath his father's car partly buried in the soft earth. Mrs. Wallace was half under the vehicle, part of her body still projecting inside the car through a rear window. Roach was pinned beneath the other machine.
AMBULANCES CALLED
Extra ambulances were summoned but by the time they arrived, the boy and the Wallace's were dead. Roach died en route to the San Joaquin General Hospital and Goings eight hours later.
Eck and his wife, Mrs. Roach and Mrs. Goings all were reported in "only fair" condition at the hospital today.
Officers and ambulance drivers reported they were "seriously handicapped" by morbidly curious spectators who pressed in so close to the scene that they hampered efforts to release the trapped victims and load them into ambulances. The thrill seekers even blocked the ambulances when they were seeking to rush from the scene in an effort to get the seriously injured to medical aid.
EXPLAINS CAUSE
According to the patrolmen, Lt. Walter Champreux of the sheriff's office and Deputy District Attorney Jack Briscoe, evidence indicated the accident was caused by Mrs. Going's car going through a stop sign at "an excessive rate of speed."
Briscoe said he was "continuing the investigation with a view toward filing manslaughter charges against Mrs. Goings.
Immediately after patrolmen arrived, the French Camp Fire District equipment was summoned when the two wrecked autos began smoking and threatened to burst into flame.
Page 5: DEATH CARS-The light-colored Mercury (shown above in foreground) was a death car for three persons early last night while two others perished in the second vehicle. The cars collided 10 miles south of Stockton at the Lathrop and Durham Ferry roads intersection. Of the nine passengers in the two cars, five were killed and four suffered major injuries. The injured were taken to San Joaquin General Hospital where their condition remains "serious."
Stockton Record, p.21, Tuesday, 17 Feb 1948:
Deaths
ROACH-Near Manteca, February 15, 1948, Earnest [sic] W. Roach, beloved husband of Clara Roach of Manteca; father of Troyce Roach of Unted States Army; Mrs. Joyce M. Menshowe [Menshew], and Mrs. Floretta Hope of Ripon; Travis Roach of Manteca, Mrs. Blanch Cargal, Mrs. Beatrice Elliott, Mrs. Rosie Hinton, Mrs. Ona Allen, Jack and Bill Roach, all of Oklahoma; son of Mrs. Sarah Roach of Oklahoma; a native of Oklahoma, aged 49 years, 3 months, 8 days.
Funeral services were held today (Tuesday, Feb. 17, 1948) at 2 p.m. in the chapel of P. L. Fry & Son, Manteca. Remains will be forwarded tonight to Altus, Okla., for services and interment.
NOTES: Durham Ferry RD turns into Airport Way as it leads into Manteca, intersecting Lathrop RD at the far northwest corner of Manteca, east of Lathrop, and south of Stockton.
Stockton Record, pp1-2, 5, 16 Feb 1948:
Six Killed, 5 in One Accident in County's Week-End Traffic
Eight Other Persons Injured, Sending Death Toll Up to 16 for Year
(Picture inset with caption: FIVE DEAD-Five persons perished in the two wrecked cars pictured above. The tragedy occurred early last night at Lathrop and Durham Ferry Roads when one car (foreground) went through a stop sign at a high rate of speed, according to highway patrolmen. The accident was classed as one of San Joaquin County's worst and jumped the 1948 death toll to 15. Another weekend traffic death raised the toll to 16-double of last year's at this time. Both cars were thrown over a hedge by the impact and came to rest in a small area bordering a home on the southwest corner of the intersection. Another view of wreckage on page 5.)
Life was cheap and blood flowed freely on San Joaquin County highways over the week-end as six in auto accidents and eight others were injured, six of them seriously.
A single, terrific crash shortly after 7 p.m. yesterday at the Durham Ferry and Lathrop Roads wiped out the lives of five persons and sent four people in the two cars involved to the San Joaquin General Hospital with multiple undetermined injuries.
The sixth death victim was a motorcyclist who was crushed against a tree near Waterloo when his vehicle ran out of control after hitting loose gravel and bounded off the highway.
THE DEAD:
Ellis Wallace, 50, 2814 W. Rose.
Marie Wallace, 43, his wife.
Joey Eck, 3, same address, their grandson.
Ernest Roach, 48, Shady Grove Auto Court, Manteca.
Elmer Goings, 39, Rte. 1, Box 394, Manteca.
Arthur C. Marks, 36, 219 S. Stanislaus.
Seriously injured:
Lillie Goings, 37, wife of Elmer.
Clara Roach, 37, wife of Ernest.
Lloyd J. Eck, 25, 2814 W. Rose, father of Joey.
Mildred Eck, 23, his wife.
Felix B. Tacato, 29, Box 84, Lathrop.
Thomas H. LaFaber, 56, 711 E. Second.
Less seriously hurt were Denny J. Randall, 30, Ripon; Jack Hutchins, 19, Lockeford, and Mrs. Elyira Dimas, 55, 145 E. Worth.
The accident was the worst in this county, from a fatality standpoint, since September 3, 1944, when seven children and a truck driver died when their car hit a train in French Camp. It brought to 16 the 1948 highway toll. Last year on this date eight people had been killed.
HITS SIDE OF CAR
According to stories given highway patrolmen, the district attorney's and coroner's offices, a car driven by Mrs. Lillie Goings, 37, Rt. 1, Box 394, Manteca, wife of one of those killed, ploughed with terrific force into the side of another driven by Lloyd J. Eck, 25, 2814 E. Rose, father of the dead child.
Both cars were hurled over a nearby hedge into the yard of a house at the intersection.
Patrolmen James Bryant and Don Cooper, on the scene moments after the crash, found all the victims still alive but three of them near death. Three-year-old Joey was crushed beneath his father's car partly buried in the soft earth. Mrs. Wallace was half under the vehicle, part of her body still projecting inside the car through a rear window. Roach was pinned beneath the other machine.
AMBULANCES CALLED
Extra ambulances were summoned but by the time they arrived, the boy and the Wallace's were dead. Roach died en route to the San Joaquin General Hospital and Goings eight hours later.
Eck and his wife, Mrs. Roach and Mrs. Goings all were reported in "only fair" condition at the hospital today.
Officers and ambulance drivers reported they were "seriously handicapped" by morbidly curious spectators who pressed in so close to the scene that they hampered efforts to release the trapped victims and load them into ambulances. The thrill seekers even blocked the ambulances when they were seeking to rush from the scene in an effort to get the seriously injured to medical aid.
EXPLAINS CAUSE
According to the patrolmen, Lt. Walter Champreux of the sheriff's office and Deputy District Attorney Jack Briscoe, evidence indicated the accident was caused by Mrs. Going's car going through a stop sign at "an excessive rate of speed."
Briscoe said he was "continuing the investigation with a view toward filing manslaughter charges against Mrs. Goings.
Immediately after patrolmen arrived, the French Camp Fire District equipment was summoned when the two wrecked autos began smoking and threatened to burst into flame.
Page 5: DEATH CARS-The light-colored Mercury (shown above in foreground) was a death car for three persons early last night while two others perished in the second vehicle. The cars collided 10 miles south of Stockton at the Lathrop and Durham Ferry roads intersection. Of the nine passengers in the two cars, five were killed and four suffered major injuries. The injured were taken to San Joaquin General Hospital where their condition remains "serious."
Stockton Record, p.21, Tuesday, 17 Feb 1948:
Deaths
ROACH-Near Manteca, February 15, 1948, Earnest [sic] W. Roach, beloved husband of Clara Roach of Manteca; father of Troyce Roach of Unted States Army; Mrs. Joyce M. Menshowe [Menshew], and Mrs. Floretta Hope of Ripon; Travis Roach of Manteca, Mrs. Blanch Cargal, Mrs. Beatrice Elliott, Mrs. Rosie Hinton, Mrs. Ona Allen, Jack and Bill Roach, all of Oklahoma; son of Mrs. Sarah Roach of Oklahoma; a native of Oklahoma, aged 49 years, 3 months, 8 days.
Funeral services were held today (Tuesday, Feb. 17, 1948) at 2 p.m. in the chapel of P. L. Fry & Son, Manteca. Remains will be forwarded tonight to Altus, Okla., for services and interment.
NOTES: Durham Ferry RD turns into Airport Way as it leads into Manteca, intersecting Lathrop RD at the far northwest corner of Manteca, east of Lathrop, and south of Stockton.
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