HOW LIFE WAS
CRUSHED OUT
BY BIG TRUCK
Additional details of the death of
Oscar Johnson, Interior trail man
ager for the Brower stage line, were
received in yesterday's mail through
the Fairbanks Citizen, which says:
“Mr. Johnson was crushed to death
when a big Jeffery quad which he
was driving left the road on the grade
as the trail enters the valley just
south of the Salcha hill, dropping
down an embankment about fifteen
feet, and the front wheels landed
squarely on the driver, probably caus
ing instantaneous death.
"The unfortunate man left Munson’s
roadhouse Thursday afternoon about
4:30 o’clock. When it was discov
ered that he had not passed the Salcha
telegraph station, searching parties
from Munson’s and the station left to
see what was wrong. Sergeant Kin
loch, operator in charge at Salcha,
heading the latter party, found the
body beneath the truck. An examina
tion revealing the fact that life was
extinct, he immediately returned to
the telegraph station and informed
the local marshal’s office of the acci
dent. Deputy United States Marshal
John Wood was sent to the scene at
once in Tom Gibson’s car. The out
bound trip was made in about three
hours, and Wood returned to town
with the remains, which were taken
to the local undertaking parlors.
“According to Mr. Gibson, the truck
had apparently been out of control
for a distance of about sixty feet be
fore ft left the road. It began to
swing away from the ruts at the top
of the grade, which is at the end of a
slight curve, and as it descended the
grade it kept cutting away from the
hill and down toward the valley. It
seems from this that the driver, who
undoubtedly had plenty of time to
jump, was confident that he could
bring the truck back into the road.
“Where it finally dropped over the
embankment is almost perpendicular,
with a drop of approximately fifteen
feet. The outer wheels dropped down
until the axles touched the grade,
when the truck, which had most of
its load on that side, turned. From
the position in which the body was
found, it is believed that the driver
either jumped or was hurled back
ward and down, falling with his head
against a fallen tree at the bottom of
the fill, and the truck apparently
struck him before he could rise, or
else he was stunned by the fall and
was unable to move. The truck land
ed with two wheels down on the earth
flatwise and the opposite side in the
air. The front wheel was jammed
against the driver’s left leg and hip,
doubling it up and forcing it into his
stomach, and the hub of the wheel
rested in the groin, all the weight
being on the hip and body of the vic
tim. The head was jammed against
and partly under the tree against
which it had been hurled.
“Mr. Johnson was a recent comer
in Fairbanks, bringing his family here
from Chitina, where he had been em
ployed by Mr. Brower since last year.
He leaves a widow and two children,
to whom the sympathy of the entire
town goes out in their bereavement.”
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Lynch, M. J.
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