Samuel G. Cutshall ^{1 2 3}

  General Notes:

Scene Of Grim Tragedy
Ray Hool, O. D. Downie and Sam Cutshall
Almost Instantly Killed When Their Auto-
mobile Collides With Street Car; David
DeTurk, Fourth Occupant, Uninjured

Victims Residents Of City

Three men were kill and a fourth miraculously escaped injury when the Ford touring car in which they were riding west on Main street, at a rate of speed estimated at 30 miles per hour, collided with an east-bound city street car at a point just a block east on St. Mary's river bridge on Main street, at 11:40 o'clock last night.

The dead:
EAYMOND E. HOLLE, 1432 St. Mary's Avenue.
SAM CUTSHALL, High street and G. R. & I railroad.
O. D. DOWNIE, 1426 Howell street

David DeTurk, 1830 Howell street, the fourth occupant of the car, who was sitting in the front seat, escaped with minor bruises.

Speeding west on Main street, according to witnesses, the Ford Automobile had swung wide on the slight curve in the street, onto the east-bound car tracks. The fraction of a moment before they would have smashed into the front of the car, the driver of the auto made an attempt to swing clear and pass the street car on the north side, but the auto was traveling at such a rate of speed that before it had time to clear the car the fatal accident occurred.

Cutshall was instantly killed. Downey died a few minutes after being taken to the hospital and Holle died before he could be taken to the hospital.

Rushing to the scene of the fatality but a few minutes after the accident, the police patrol rushed Holley, who was still living, to the St. Joe hospital. The injured man was breathing slightly when the police arrived and all efforts were made to save his life by prompt medical efforts, death ensued before they reached the hospital.

According to several persons, including the motorman of the street car, who saw the accident, the Ford car was coming west at a rate of speed estimated at 30 miles per hour, directly in the path of the east bound street car.

The auto swerved just in time to avoid a head-on collision with the street car, but the front end of the car struck the auto, throwing it to one side and throwing the occupants from the car.

Smashing into the corner of the street car, the speed at which the auto had been traveling caused it to be thrown across the street, demolishing it, and throwing the occupants clear of the tangled wreckage.

Torn and cut by flying glass from the windshield of their auto and by glass from the door of the street car the three fatally injured men lay on the grass in pools of their life blood while bystanders stood helplessly by.

According to Amos Bayer, of Monroe, Ind., and Mr. and Mrs. Arlo Loescler, 1703 Boyer avenue, this city, Motorman John Hile, in charge of the street car, was powerless to prevent the accident. They assert the motorman brought the car to a stop at once.

Motorman Hile said he saw the car coming around the slight curve in the street, on the wrong side of the street. The speeding auto had swung wide around the curve, and before the driver could steer clear of the car accident had occurred. Arthur Kuhl of Oliver street, another witness of the accident, related the same story of the affair, saying that he believe the accident was entirely the fault of the automobilists.

H. F. Bovine, of Monroe, Ind., who saw the automobile hit the sidewalk, made the following statement: "I was walking east on West Main street when I heard a crash. I did not see the automobile hit anything although I saw it hurled toward the sidewalk and saw two men thrown out onto the road. The machine must have been traveling about 35 miles per hour when it collided."

The injured men were immediately carried from the wreckage. Cut by flying glass from the windshield of their car and by glass from the door of the street car, the men were terribly cut and bruised.

Cutshall was a cement worker, employed in the manufactures of cement vaults; Holle was a butcher, and Downie was a boilerman on the Nickle Plate railroad. David DeTurk, who survivor, is a bartender in a downtown soft-drink parlor.

Coroner Benninghoff, following an examination of the three bodies early this morning, said that all the victims of the accident had suffered fractures of the skull. Ray Holle also had a broken neck.

Louis F. Crosby, prosecutor, is conducting an investigation into the accident.
Holle is well known in Fort Wayne. He is a thirty-second Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Mizpah Shrine temple.
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  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1880 US Census in Washington Township, Allen County, IN on 10 June 1880. ²

1880 US Census
Page 264B, District 106, Dwelling 152, Family 155, Roll 0264
Washington Township, Allen County, Indiana
Samuel Cutshall..Son..3..IN
(Living with parents.)

NOTE - If his birth date was 15 Dec 1877, then his age should have been 2 instead of 3.
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• He was buried after 4 July 1922 in the Hatfield Cemetery in Fort Wayne, IN.

Find A Grave Memorial #12772110
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