Obit: Boehning, Ernest #2 (? - 1937)

 

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Boehning, Panzer, Wickersham, Berry

                       

----Source: The Granton Leader (Granton, Clark Co., WI.) September 30, 1937

 

Boehning, Ernest (? - 27 September 1937)

 

Ernest Boehning, died at Neillsville hospital at 2:40 p.m. Monday of injuries received in an auto mishap on highway 10, seven miles west of Neillsville.  The injured were: Miss Dorothy Boehning, 21, Granton, route 2, Miss Dorothy Panzer, 19, Hewitt, Harvey Wickersham, 22, Marshfield, route 1, Emery Berry, 24, Marshfield, route 5.

 

Boehning was driving the car, owned by Wickersham, when it left the concrete on a curve at the junction of county highway H to Humbird. 

 

The car broke off a telephone pole; then spun for 390 feet, rolling over and over until it came to a stop after crossing the side road.  Boehning was thrown 50 feet beyond the spot where the machine stopped rolling.  Other members of the party were hurled from the wreckage at various points along its trail.

 

Boehning, who suffered a skull fracture, internal injuries, and a number of broken bones died later.  His sister, Miss Dorothy, is at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield, with a back injury and fractures of the left knee and right ankle.

 

Harvey Wickersham also has a severe back injury, in addition to numerous contusions and lacerations. Seriousness of the back injuries could not be determined by attending physicians until later.

 

Miss Panzer has lacerations about the eyes, forehead, and legs, and possible internal injuries.

 

Emery Berry’s most serious injury is probably a fractured knee cap.  All of the occupants of the car received multiple contusions and abrasions.  The latter four are all receiving treatment at the Marshfield hospital.

 

After investigating the accident, Clark County officers said the car apparently was traveling at high speed when it left the road. They said that at the point where the car crossed the graveled highway H, only two indentations were visible indicating that the machine virtually hurdled the road.

 

The machine was a 1937 model and was reduced almost to complete wreckage.  Officers reported that the auto turned over "possibly a dozen times," after striking the telephone pole.

 

 


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