Hood, Ralph

HOOD

Posted By: Lorelei Rusco (email)
Date: 12/23/2011 at 03:58:36

Hood, Ralph -
Ralph Hood, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Hood, formerly of the Stringtown neighborhood but now of near Cromwell, died Sunday night at Creston from injuries received when the car he was driving crashed into a stock truck at the south edge of Creston about 10:30 Sunday evening. The truck was driven by Sid Bolton of Creston.

The story of the accident as told by the Creston News Advertiser is:
The truck, a double-decker type, was loaded with hogs and sheep and was enroute to Omaha when the light car, driven by Hood is believed to have swerved toward the truck, hitting the side of the rack.
Hits Mail Box
To avoid the accident, it was reported at police headquarters, Bolton turned his truck toward the side of the road and in doing so struck a mail box. Reports were conflicting as there were no eye witnesses, but at the scene of the accident it was believed that the Hood car, which was traveling at a high rate of speed according to information received, swerved from the right side of the road to the left side, striking the Bolton truck. The collision resulted in Hood's death and injuries to William Chapman, 27, also of near Cromwell.

Both Hood and Chapman were brought to the Coakley Clinic hospital where Hood died a short time afterward.
Chapman at Clinic
Chapman, according to reports at the Clinic Monday afternoon, was as well as could be expected, but the extent of his injuries were not reported. Bolton escaped injuries.

Hood is survived by his mother and father, five sisters and two brothers, all of whom but one reside on the farm north and west of Crowell, known as the E. L. Carroll Place.

His sisters include Alice, Dorotha, Marjorie and Josephine all at home, and another sister, Mrs. Hazel Hamil of near Iowa City, Iowa and two brothers, Donald and Francis, also at home.

Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Stringtown church with the Rev. J. R. McNichols of Council Bluffs officiating and interment was made in the Stringtown cemetery.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday September 14, 1953