Special to Express-News San Antonio,
Seguin - Two San Antonio employes of the South Research Institute died instantly east of here at noon Saturday in a bizarre truck accident.
The victims were Thomas Truett Mayfield, 29, a technician, and Anthony Wayne Wilson, 28, and engineer. The men lived together at 542 Hermine Blvd. in San Antonio.
Highway Patrolman O. L. Whaley said the two mem were en route from Hallettsville to San Antonio when the accident occurred eight miles east of here on U. S. 90 A.
Whaley said Mayfield was driving a flatbed truck and towing a truck cab in which Wilson was riding. He said the men came over a small hill at about 60 mph and wilson's vehilce apparently started to pass Mayfields.
A witness said an eight-foot chain linking the vehicles apprently jerked the trucks across the road. Both trucks turned over simultaneously, skidded about 40 feet, and landed upside donw in a ditch.
Whaley said both cab roofs were smashed even with the dashboards. Justice of the Peace R. L. Jones of Kingsbury pronounced the men dead at the scene.
There bodies were taken to the Goetz Funeral Home in Seguin.
Mayfield went to work at SRI in 1962 and Wilson began work in January, 1964.
Seguin - Two San Antonio employes of the South Research Institute died instantly east of here at noon Saturday in a bizarre truck accident.
The victims were Thomas Truett Mayfield, 29, a technician, and Anthony Wayne Wilson, 28, and engineer. The men lived together at 542 Hermine Blvd. in San Antonio.
Highway Patrolman O. L. Whaley said the two mem were en route from Hallettsville to San Antonio when the accident occurred eight miles east of here on U. S. 90 A.
Whaley said Mayfield was driving a flatbed truck and towing a truck cab in which Wilson was riding. He said the men came over a small hill at about 60 mph and wilson's vehilce apparently started to pass Mayfields.
A witness said an eight-foot chain linking the vehicles apprently jerked the trucks across the road. Both trucks turned over simultaneously, skidded about 40 feet, and landed upside donw in a ditch.
Whaley said both cab roofs were smashed even with the dashboards. Justice of the Peace R. L. Jones of Kingsbury pronounced the men dead at the scene.
There bodies were taken to the Goetz Funeral Home in Seguin.
Mayfield went to work at SRI in 1962 and Wilson began work in January, 1964.
Special to Express-News San Antonio,
Seguin - Two San Antonio employes of the South Research Institute died instantly east of here at noon Saturday in a bizarre truck accident.
The victims were Thomas Truett Mayfield, 29, a technician, and Anthony Wayne Wilson, 28, and engineer. The men lived together at 542 Hermine Blvd. in San Antonio.
Highway Patrolman O. L. Whaley said the two mem were en route from Hallettsville to San Antonio when the accident occurred eight miles east of here on U. S. 90 A.
Whaley said Mayfield was driving a flatbed truck and towing a truck cab in which Wilson was riding. He said the men came over a small hill at about 60 mph and wilson's vehilce apparently started to pass Mayfields.
A witness said an eight-foot chain linking the vehicles apprently jerked the trucks across the road. Both trucks turned over simultaneously, skidded about 40 feet, and landed upside donw in a ditch.
Whaley said both cab roofs were smashed even with the dashboards. Justice of the Peace R. L. Jones of Kingsbury pronounced the men dead at the scene.
There bodies were taken to the Goetz Funeral Home in Seguin.
Mayfield went to work at SRI in 1962 and Wilson began work in January, 1964.
Seguin - Two San Antonio employes of the South Research Institute died instantly east of here at noon Saturday in a bizarre truck accident.
The victims were Thomas Truett Mayfield, 29, a technician, and Anthony Wayne Wilson, 28, and engineer. The men lived together at 542 Hermine Blvd. in San Antonio.
Highway Patrolman O. L. Whaley said the two mem were en route from Hallettsville to San Antonio when the accident occurred eight miles east of here on U. S. 90 A.
Whaley said Mayfield was driving a flatbed truck and towing a truck cab in which Wilson was riding. He said the men came over a small hill at about 60 mph and wilson's vehilce apparently started to pass Mayfields.
A witness said an eight-foot chain linking the vehicles apprently jerked the trucks across the road. Both trucks turned over simultaneously, skidded about 40 feet, and landed upside donw in a ditch.
Whaley said both cab roofs were smashed even with the dashboards. Justice of the Peace R. L. Jones of Kingsbury pronounced the men dead at the scene.
There bodies were taken to the Goetz Funeral Home in Seguin.
Mayfield went to work at SRI in 1962 and Wilson began work in January, 1964.
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