Rain Given Blame For Crash Death Of 3 El Doradoans
Torrential rains, police believe, caused the death of three El Dorado men Sunday in a car-truck collision on Highway 281, six miles south of Russell, Kansas. Dead were Jackson E. "Jack" Hardesty, 30, Lee Wesley Thomas, 30, and Jerry Dean Whitacre, 22.
The men were employed by the Greenland Drilling Co. of Wichita, and were working on an oil rig near Russell. The victims were driving south out of Russell in a blinding rainstorm. Apparently the driver applied his brakes and slid broadside into an oncoming truck driven by Donald E. Mead, 28, Franklin, Neb.
Hardesty, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Hardesty of Wichita, attended Gardner, Hamilton, and East High schools in Wichita before entering the Army during World War II. He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. James Dunegan, 2319 S. St. Francis; Sister Aurelius, St. Joseph Hospital; and three brothers, Stanley E. Hardesty, 3420 Penley; Glenn E. Hardesty, 1813 Greenwood; and Ray E. Hardesty, U.S. Navy. Funeral arrangements are being made by the Snodgrass Funeral Home.
(Published in The Wichita Evening Eagle, October 3, 1955, Page 4.)
Rain Given Blame For Crash Death Of 3 El Doradoans
Torrential rains, police believe, caused the death of three El Dorado men Sunday in a car-truck collision on Highway 281, six miles south of Russell, Kansas. Dead were Jackson E. "Jack" Hardesty, 30, Lee Wesley Thomas, 30, and Jerry Dean Whitacre, 22.
The men were employed by the Greenland Drilling Co. of Wichita, and were working on an oil rig near Russell. The victims were driving south out of Russell in a blinding rainstorm. Apparently the driver applied his brakes and slid broadside into an oncoming truck driven by Donald E. Mead, 28, Franklin, Neb.
Hardesty, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Hardesty of Wichita, attended Gardner, Hamilton, and East High schools in Wichita before entering the Army during World War II. He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. James Dunegan, 2319 S. St. Francis; Sister Aurelius, St. Joseph Hospital; and three brothers, Stanley E. Hardesty, 3420 Penley; Glenn E. Hardesty, 1813 Greenwood; and Ray E. Hardesty, U.S. Navy. Funeral arrangements are being made by the Snodgrass Funeral Home.
(Published in The Wichita Evening Eagle, October 3, 1955, Page 4.)
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