Bio: Matti, Dick (Accident - 1963)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

 

Surnames: Matti, Gilbertson

 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) January 31, 1963

 

Matti, Dick (Accident - 25 January 1963)

 

Dick Matti, Humbird milk hauler who was critically injured in a car-train accident Saturday, was expected to be moved Wednesday to the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn., from the Krohn Clinic at Black River Falls, where he has been treated since the accident.

 

Matti suffered severe head injuries when he was thrown from the cab of his milk truck as it was struck by a Green Bay and Western Railroad freight train near the west edge of Merrillan. Matti’s truck was demolished.

His physician said that he had not fully regained consciousness up to Tuesday night, and called his condition "very serious."

 

The accident took place at the crossing near the Gilbertson home, where Matti was about to pick up milk.

 

 


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