Mulvihill, Myrtle Elizabeth 1869-1915

MULVIHILL, DODGE

Posted By: Geo Clinton (email)
Date: 6/2/2016 at 11:32:10

Storm Lake Buena Vista Vidette - Aug 27, 1915 - Word was received here last Wednesday of the death of Mrs Myrtle Mulvihill at Long Beach, CA on Tuesday August 18 at about 5 o'clock.

Mr Mulvihill was a passenger in the jitney bus with four others and the driver. Of the six four were killed outright and the driver and one of the passengers seriously hurt. The Daily Telegram had the following to say concerning the accident:

Mundy was eastbound on 10th street, Mrs McPherson in the front seat with him. Mrs Wellenman and daughter and Mrs Mulvihill sitting in the rear seat and Mr Billings seated on the rear right hand door. As he was almost upon the railroad track, he saw the Salt Lake passenger train southbound almost upon him. He quickly turned the auto toward the south and ran alongside the track, endeavoring to avert a collision. The locomotive and Ford crashed however an instant later.

The auto was swung around and turned completely over. The top was torn off, the body smashed, some of the wheels torn off and even the upholstering of the cushions torn to pieces and scattered about the street. The auto was thrown about 15 feet from the track.

Mr Billings, it is said, was thrown about 25 feet. The three women who were killed were hurled from the machine and Mrs McPherson lay close beside them. When she regained consciousness she found herself in a pool of blood, two dead bodies in her range of vision.

Rev Wm Harkness past of the Central M.E. Church, witnessed the collision from the front porch of the parsonage next door to the church at 10th and California. He ran to the scene of the tragedy and found Mrs Mulvihills body on top of that of Mrs Wellenman, the Wellenman girl lying near them....

Mr and Mrs Mulvihill moved to Long Beach 7 years ago and for the past 6 years, Mr Mulvihill has been foreman of construction work for the city water department. Mrs Mulvihill was formerly Miss Myrtle Dodge. She was brought up at Newell.

The body was brought here Monday evening and taken to Newell Tuesday for funeral services there and brought back to Storm Lake for interment in the family lot at Storm Lake.

J.R. Hill of this city is a brother-in-law of the deceased. The friends and relatives here and at Newell and the mother, Mrs Alta Dodge, at Sioux City.