The Advocate-Messenger
20 Jun 1932, Mon ·Page 1
THREE KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Car Leaves Road Near Danville
Taylor Scott, Buena Vista; William Henry, Danville, and Tom Jess Pollard, Danville, Die From Injuries, and Bryant Yarnell, of Garrard County, Painfully Injured. ACCIDENT OCCURRED SUNDAY AT MIDNIGHT ON ROAD NEAR COUNTRY CLUB
Three men are dead in Danville this morning as the result of a wreck on the Lexington pike last midnight. They are: Taylor Scott, 30, Buena Vista, Garrard County, farmer, killed instantly, when his skull was crushed as he was thrown , from the car into a telephone pole. He was unmarried. William Henry, 25, Danville, died at the Danville and Boyle County Hospital at 3 o'clock this morning as his crushed leg was amputated.
Tom Jess Pollard. 25, Danville, died at the Danville and Boyle County Hospital at 10:30 o'clock this morning of a crushed chest and Internal injuries.
Driver Injured
Bryant Yarnell, 35 years old, farmer of Garrard county, driver of the car, is in the Danville and Boyle county hospital suffering from numerous body bruises which will probably not prove fatal.
The four men had started from Danville to the homes of Scott and Yarnell in Garrard county, where all four were engaged in farm work. The accident occurred when Yarnell lost control of the car about 100 yards beyond the Danville Country Club, less than two miles from Danville.
The car was a Buick half ton truck and swerved into a telephone pole which it brushed, then hurled onto the top of a three foot stone fence, swapped ends and landed, about face, on the road, 50 feet beyond the telephone pole.
Scott's head was crushed on the first pole the car hit and this morning blood, brains and hair on the pole bore mute evidence of the force with which he struck. Henry an Orphan
Henry was a boy who for many years had been fighting for his life. He was an orphan, and had spent years at the local Community House where he was taken after he had apparently recovered from TB. He was brought to the local hospital with a crushed leg, crushed from the thigh to the knee, and he died while he was being treated.
Pollard's body was 10 feet beyond where the truck finally came to rest. A valiant but losing fight for his life was made until 10:30 this morning. He was married and was a brother-in-law to Scott. Leathers and J. Lee Murphy, Jr., were the first to arrive at the scene. Murphy lives nearby and heard the crash. He said a grewsome spectacle was presented with the four occupants of the car lying "all over the road." He said that Scott was apparently dead when he arrived and that the other three were groaning, coughing and crying.
The road at the scene of the accident was straight and did not have a high crown. All indications are that the car was being driven at a high rate of speed.
Tests show that a car traveling 50 miles an hour has a potential destructive force equivalent to a fall of 82.7 feet and the hundreds of people who viewed the scene of the wreck this morning are willing to accept the test statement.
It was a grewsome wreck and made a lasting impression upon those who viewed the scene. As far as is known, no one actually saw the tragedy. A coroner's jury this morning returned a verdict that Scott, Henry and Pollard came to their deaths from injuries received when a car driven by Yarnell was wrecked.
Heard the Crash
A. R. Leathers, who lives at the Community House here, said that he was, driving near the Country Club last night when he heard the Yarnell car coming down the road. He said that it was traveling fast and making a tremendous roar and that he drove into the Country
Club drive to get out of its way. As he backed out of the drive, he said, he heard the crash and rushed to the scene.
Pollard Funeral
The funeral services of Tom J. Pollard will be held at the grave in Bellevue cemetery Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, conduct by Dr.L. W. Doolan. The body was taken to the residence of Mrs. Robert Coldiron, 423 Locust Street in Park Place, and arrangements for the funeral and burial are in charge of the Stith Funeral Home.
Mr. Pollard was 27 years old and member of the First Baptist Church of this city. He is survived by his wife and one little daughter; also his mother and two sisters, Mrs. Robt Coldiron, Danville, and Mrs. W. B.
Yarnell, of Garrard County; three brothers, Ben, Gobel and Jimmie Pollard.
Mrs. Pollard, who not only lost her husband in the accident, but her brother, William Henry, and other members of the bereaved families have the sympathy of all in their loss.
20 Jun 1932, Mon ·Page 1
THREE KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Car Leaves Road Near Danville
Taylor Scott, Buena Vista; William Henry, Danville, and Tom Jess Pollard, Danville, Die From Injuries, and Bryant Yarnell, of Garrard County, Painfully Injured. ACCIDENT OCCURRED SUNDAY AT MIDNIGHT ON ROAD NEAR COUNTRY CLUB
Three men are dead in Danville this morning as the result of a wreck on the Lexington pike last midnight. They are: Taylor Scott, 30, Buena Vista, Garrard County, farmer, killed instantly, when his skull was crushed as he was thrown , from the car into a telephone pole. He was unmarried. William Henry, 25, Danville, died at the Danville and Boyle County Hospital at 3 o'clock this morning as his crushed leg was amputated.
Tom Jess Pollard. 25, Danville, died at the Danville and Boyle County Hospital at 10:30 o'clock this morning of a crushed chest and Internal injuries.
Driver Injured
Bryant Yarnell, 35 years old, farmer of Garrard county, driver of the car, is in the Danville and Boyle county hospital suffering from numerous body bruises which will probably not prove fatal.
The four men had started from Danville to the homes of Scott and Yarnell in Garrard county, where all four were engaged in farm work. The accident occurred when Yarnell lost control of the car about 100 yards beyond the Danville Country Club, less than two miles from Danville.
The car was a Buick half ton truck and swerved into a telephone pole which it brushed, then hurled onto the top of a three foot stone fence, swapped ends and landed, about face, on the road, 50 feet beyond the telephone pole.
Scott's head was crushed on the first pole the car hit and this morning blood, brains and hair on the pole bore mute evidence of the force with which he struck. Henry an Orphan
Henry was a boy who for many years had been fighting for his life. He was an orphan, and had spent years at the local Community House where he was taken after he had apparently recovered from TB. He was brought to the local hospital with a crushed leg, crushed from the thigh to the knee, and he died while he was being treated.
Pollard's body was 10 feet beyond where the truck finally came to rest. A valiant but losing fight for his life was made until 10:30 this morning. He was married and was a brother-in-law to Scott. Leathers and J. Lee Murphy, Jr., were the first to arrive at the scene. Murphy lives nearby and heard the crash. He said a grewsome spectacle was presented with the four occupants of the car lying "all over the road." He said that Scott was apparently dead when he arrived and that the other three were groaning, coughing and crying.
The road at the scene of the accident was straight and did not have a high crown. All indications are that the car was being driven at a high rate of speed.
Tests show that a car traveling 50 miles an hour has a potential destructive force equivalent to a fall of 82.7 feet and the hundreds of people who viewed the scene of the wreck this morning are willing to accept the test statement.
It was a grewsome wreck and made a lasting impression upon those who viewed the scene. As far as is known, no one actually saw the tragedy. A coroner's jury this morning returned a verdict that Scott, Henry and Pollard came to their deaths from injuries received when a car driven by Yarnell was wrecked.
Heard the Crash
A. R. Leathers, who lives at the Community House here, said that he was, driving near the Country Club last night when he heard the Yarnell car coming down the road. He said that it was traveling fast and making a tremendous roar and that he drove into the Country
Club drive to get out of its way. As he backed out of the drive, he said, he heard the crash and rushed to the scene.
Pollard Funeral
The funeral services of Tom J. Pollard will be held at the grave in Bellevue cemetery Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, conduct by Dr.L. W. Doolan. The body was taken to the residence of Mrs. Robert Coldiron, 423 Locust Street in Park Place, and arrangements for the funeral and burial are in charge of the Stith Funeral Home.
Mr. Pollard was 27 years old and member of the First Baptist Church of this city. He is survived by his wife and one little daughter; also his mother and two sisters, Mrs. Robt Coldiron, Danville, and Mrs. W. B.
Yarnell, of Garrard County; three brothers, Ben, Gobel and Jimmie Pollard.
Mrs. Pollard, who not only lost her husband in the accident, but her brother, William Henry, and other members of the bereaved families have the sympathy of all in their loss.
The Advocate-Messenger
20 Jun 1932, Mon ·Page 1
THREE KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Car Leaves Road Near Danville
Taylor Scott, Buena Vista; William Henry, Danville, and Tom Jess Pollard, Danville, Die From Injuries, and Bryant Yarnell, of Garrard County, Painfully Injured. ACCIDENT OCCURRED SUNDAY AT MIDNIGHT ON ROAD NEAR COUNTRY CLUB
Three men are dead in Danville this morning as the result of a wreck on the Lexington pike last midnight. They are: Taylor Scott, 30, Buena Vista, Garrard County, farmer, killed instantly, when his skull was crushed as he was thrown , from the car into a telephone pole. He was unmarried. William Henry, 25, Danville, died at the Danville and Boyle County Hospital at 3 o'clock this morning as his crushed leg was amputated.
Tom Jess Pollard. 25, Danville, died at the Danville and Boyle County Hospital at 10:30 o'clock this morning of a crushed chest and Internal injuries.
Driver Injured
Bryant Yarnell, 35 years old, farmer of Garrard county, driver of the car, is in the Danville and Boyle county hospital suffering from numerous body bruises which will probably not prove fatal.
The four men had started from Danville to the homes of Scott and Yarnell in Garrard county, where all four were engaged in farm work. The accident occurred when Yarnell lost control of the car about 100 yards beyond the Danville Country Club, less than two miles from Danville.
The car was a Buick half ton truck and swerved into a telephone pole which it brushed, then hurled onto the top of a three foot stone fence, swapped ends and landed, about face, on the road, 50 feet beyond the telephone pole.
Scott's head was crushed on the first pole the car hit and this morning blood, brains and hair on the pole bore mute evidence of the force with which he struck. Henry an Orphan
Henry was a boy who for many years had been fighting for his life. He was an orphan, and had spent years at the local Community House where he was taken after he had apparently recovered from TB. He was brought to the local hospital with a crushed leg, crushed from the thigh to the knee, and he died while he was being treated.
Pollard's body was 10 feet beyond where the truck finally came to rest. A valiant but losing fight for his life was made until 10:30 this morning. He was married and was a brother-in-law to Scott. Leathers and J. Lee Murphy, Jr., were the first to arrive at the scene. Murphy lives nearby and heard the crash. He said a grewsome spectacle was presented with the four occupants of the car lying "all over the road." He said that Scott was apparently dead when he arrived and that the other three were groaning, coughing and crying.
The road at the scene of the accident was straight and did not have a high crown. All indications are that the car was being driven at a high rate of speed.
Tests show that a car traveling 50 miles an hour has a potential destructive force equivalent to a fall of 82.7 feet and the hundreds of people who viewed the scene of the wreck this morning are willing to accept the test statement.
It was a grewsome wreck and made a lasting impression upon those who viewed the scene. As far as is known, no one actually saw the tragedy. A coroner's jury this morning returned a verdict that Scott, Henry and Pollard came to their deaths from injuries received when a car driven by Yarnell was wrecked.
Heard the Crash
A. R. Leathers, who lives at the Community House here, said that he was, driving near the Country Club last night when he heard the Yarnell car coming down the road. He said that it was traveling fast and making a tremendous roar and that he drove into the Country
Club drive to get out of its way. As he backed out of the drive, he said, he heard the crash and rushed to the scene.
Pollard Funeral
The funeral services of Tom J. Pollard will be held at the grave in Bellevue cemetery Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, conduct by Dr.L. W. Doolan. The body was taken to the residence of Mrs. Robert Coldiron, 423 Locust Street in Park Place, and arrangements for the funeral and burial are in charge of the Stith Funeral Home.
Mr. Pollard was 27 years old and member of the First Baptist Church of this city. He is survived by his wife and one little daughter; also his mother and two sisters, Mrs. Robt Coldiron, Danville, and Mrs. W. B.
Yarnell, of Garrard County; three brothers, Ben, Gobel and Jimmie Pollard.
Mrs. Pollard, who not only lost her husband in the accident, but her brother, William Henry, and other members of the bereaved families have the sympathy of all in their loss.
20 Jun 1932, Mon ·Page 1
THREE KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Car Leaves Road Near Danville
Taylor Scott, Buena Vista; William Henry, Danville, and Tom Jess Pollard, Danville, Die From Injuries, and Bryant Yarnell, of Garrard County, Painfully Injured. ACCIDENT OCCURRED SUNDAY AT MIDNIGHT ON ROAD NEAR COUNTRY CLUB
Three men are dead in Danville this morning as the result of a wreck on the Lexington pike last midnight. They are: Taylor Scott, 30, Buena Vista, Garrard County, farmer, killed instantly, when his skull was crushed as he was thrown , from the car into a telephone pole. He was unmarried. William Henry, 25, Danville, died at the Danville and Boyle County Hospital at 3 o'clock this morning as his crushed leg was amputated.
Tom Jess Pollard. 25, Danville, died at the Danville and Boyle County Hospital at 10:30 o'clock this morning of a crushed chest and Internal injuries.
Driver Injured
Bryant Yarnell, 35 years old, farmer of Garrard county, driver of the car, is in the Danville and Boyle county hospital suffering from numerous body bruises which will probably not prove fatal.
The four men had started from Danville to the homes of Scott and Yarnell in Garrard county, where all four were engaged in farm work. The accident occurred when Yarnell lost control of the car about 100 yards beyond the Danville Country Club, less than two miles from Danville.
The car was a Buick half ton truck and swerved into a telephone pole which it brushed, then hurled onto the top of a three foot stone fence, swapped ends and landed, about face, on the road, 50 feet beyond the telephone pole.
Scott's head was crushed on the first pole the car hit and this morning blood, brains and hair on the pole bore mute evidence of the force with which he struck. Henry an Orphan
Henry was a boy who for many years had been fighting for his life. He was an orphan, and had spent years at the local Community House where he was taken after he had apparently recovered from TB. He was brought to the local hospital with a crushed leg, crushed from the thigh to the knee, and he died while he was being treated.
Pollard's body was 10 feet beyond where the truck finally came to rest. A valiant but losing fight for his life was made until 10:30 this morning. He was married and was a brother-in-law to Scott. Leathers and J. Lee Murphy, Jr., were the first to arrive at the scene. Murphy lives nearby and heard the crash. He said a grewsome spectacle was presented with the four occupants of the car lying "all over the road." He said that Scott was apparently dead when he arrived and that the other three were groaning, coughing and crying.
The road at the scene of the accident was straight and did not have a high crown. All indications are that the car was being driven at a high rate of speed.
Tests show that a car traveling 50 miles an hour has a potential destructive force equivalent to a fall of 82.7 feet and the hundreds of people who viewed the scene of the wreck this morning are willing to accept the test statement.
It was a grewsome wreck and made a lasting impression upon those who viewed the scene. As far as is known, no one actually saw the tragedy. A coroner's jury this morning returned a verdict that Scott, Henry and Pollard came to their deaths from injuries received when a car driven by Yarnell was wrecked.
Heard the Crash
A. R. Leathers, who lives at the Community House here, said that he was, driving near the Country Club last night when he heard the Yarnell car coming down the road. He said that it was traveling fast and making a tremendous roar and that he drove into the Country
Club drive to get out of its way. As he backed out of the drive, he said, he heard the crash and rushed to the scene.
Pollard Funeral
The funeral services of Tom J. Pollard will be held at the grave in Bellevue cemetery Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, conduct by Dr.L. W. Doolan. The body was taken to the residence of Mrs. Robert Coldiron, 423 Locust Street in Park Place, and arrangements for the funeral and burial are in charge of the Stith Funeral Home.
Mr. Pollard was 27 years old and member of the First Baptist Church of this city. He is survived by his wife and one little daughter; also his mother and two sisters, Mrs. Robt Coldiron, Danville, and Mrs. W. B.
Yarnell, of Garrard County; three brothers, Ben, Gobel and Jimmie Pollard.
Mrs. Pollard, who not only lost her husband in the accident, but her brother, William Henry, and other members of the bereaved families have the sympathy of all in their loss.
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