Fiscus, Walter (d. 1920) Killed in Auto Collision

FISCUS, WILLISEN

Posted By: Ken Akers (email)
Date: 4/20/2008 at 22:17:01

Audubon County Journal (IA)
Oct. 7, 1920, page 1

WALTER FISCUS KILLED IN AUTO COLLISION

Car Turns Turtle when Driven into Machine that Stopped in Road

His neck broken, and his body covered with cuts from flying glass, Walter Fiscus, a young farmer living west of Audubon in the vicinity of Fiscus, was instantly killed Monday afternoon about 2 o’clock when he steered the Essex car in which he and his brother were driving, directly into the front of an automobile in the road north of town and the machine turned over and over with Fiscus in the driver’s seat.

It is said the young man was watching the flight of an airplane overhead, and failed to notice the automobile in the road.

The accident occurred north of town at the Willisen farm. The three daughters of the Willisens had driven their machine out thru the driveway, and had stopped at the right side of the road while one of the girls returned to close the gate into the farmyard. It was then that the Fiscus brothers, returning home from town, and driving north at a good rate of speed hit the Willisen car squarely, with such force that the Essex described several arcs in midair. The brother of the unfortunate man was pitched out and but slightly bruised. When he and the others rushed to extricate Walter from the wreckage life was extinct.

The girls in the Willisen car were unhurt, and the only damage to the machine was bent fenders, while the Essex car was smashed to pieces.

Walter Fiscus was 20 years of age, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Fiscus and he made his home with his parents, who are prominent and long time residents of Audubon county.—Atlantic News-Telegraph