Tina May (Davidson) Rinard (1917)
DAVIDSON, RINARD
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 2/29/2008 at 10:06:50
The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, October 24, 1917MRS. RINARD KILLED ON STEEP HILL
Auto Engine Dies on Hill and Car UpsetsMrs. Ray Rinard was instantly killed Saturday evening when an Overland car in which she and her husband and their three children were returning home, backed down a North Branch hill and upset. Mr. Rinard and the children escaped without injury. The accident occurred on the hill a half mile east of the township corners.
The car was going up the hill, headed west. Mr. Rinard was driving and in the middle of the hill killed the engine. It backed down the hill without control and ran off into a shallow ditch at the bottom where it upset. Mrs. Rinard was found pinned under the automobile, the front seat resting on her neck which was broken by the force of the fall. Charles Clark and Gene Caudle, who soon arrived on the scene, assisted in extricating the body.
The funeral occurred Monday.
________________________The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, October 24, 1917
Page 1, Column 1WOMAN KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Car Backs Down Hill, Turns Over. Kills Mrs. Ray Rinard. Others Unhurt
Mrs. Ray Rinard met instant death on Saturday night when the auto in which she was riding, overturned at the foot of a hill.
Mr. and Mrs. Rinard were riding in the front seat of their Overland car, with the three little boys in the rear seat. Leaving their home on North Branch, formerly the old Devine place, they were bound for the Caudle farm to attend a dance. In ascending the hill near the Ernest Preston farm six miles north and one east of Winterset, Mr. Rinard killed his engine. The brakes refused to act properly and the car backed down the hill.
He had assisted in working this hill and the nearby roads and hastily recalled that there was a small embankment at the foot of the hill. Believing that he could turn the car sufficiently, he could stop it against the embankment, he tried to do so. A small ditch or furrow for drainage, also marked the hollow of the hill, but it is not thought this caused the accident. Mr. Rinard cannot explain the causes which completely overturned the car, and threw him and the ten year old boy into the fence. The two smaller lads were buried under the car. None of these four were scratched or bruised in the least.
Mrs. Rinard’s death was instant, one temple being crushed, her neck broken, right shoulder dislocated and possibly two ribs broken besides other injuries. She was removed to Ernest Preston’s home for the time.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at two o’clock at Fairview church.
She was, before her marriage, Tina May Davidson.
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