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Uncle Leo accident. Posted by Jenn4653.
RIVER COMBED FOR TWO MEN.
Geneva, Ala., April 21. Rescue workers prepared to resume operations at the Pea River bridge here today where two men lost their lives when their vehicles collided on the structure and plunged into the swift, swollen stream Friday night.
Diving operations were halted yesterday because of strong winds and driving rain.
Known dead was Thomas H. Coan of Montgomery, Marine veteran of the Marshall Islands campaign, driver of a truck which collided with an automobile assumed to have been driven by Dr. C.P. Gay, 73-year-old physician, the other victim.
The bridge had been condemned several years ago as unsafe, Gene Thomley, publisher of the Geneva County Reaper, said.
Mr. Gay, practicing physician said by friends to have left his home on a call about the time the accident occurred. He did not reach his destination, and it was reasonably certain that he was a victim along with Coan.
M.L. Dennis, also of Montgomery and a passenger in the truck, survived the accident by kicking out one of the windows, he said.
From Ancestry:
Uncle Leo accident. Posted by Jenn4653.
RIVER COMBED FOR TWO MEN.
Geneva, Ala., April 21. Rescue workers prepared to resume operations at the Pea River bridge here today where two men lost their lives when their vehicles collided on the structure and plunged into the swift, swollen stream Friday night.
Diving operations were halted yesterday because of strong winds and driving rain.
Known dead was Thomas H. Coan of Montgomery, Marine veteran of the Marshall Islands campaign, driver of a truck which collided with an automobile assumed to have been driven by Dr. C.P. Gay, 73-year-old physician, the other victim.
The bridge had been condemned several years ago as unsafe, Gene Thomley, publisher of the Geneva County Reaper, said.
Mr. Gay, practicing physician said by friends to have left his home on a call about the time the accident occurred. He did not reach his destination, and it was reasonably certain that he was a victim along with Coan.
M.L. Dennis, also of Montgomery and a passenger in the truck, survived the accident by kicking out one of the windows, he said.
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