Royal Glenn Beeson (1929)
BEESON, MORGAN
Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 1/19/2012 at 19:49:16
Newspaper Unknown, Baker, Montana
Thursday, October 16, 1929MAN KILLED IN CAR ACCIDENT 30 MILES SOUTH OF BAKER
ROYAL BEESON OF MEDICINE ROCKS IS FATALLY INJURED WHEN STRUCK WHILE REPAIRING A TIRE
The victim of a Saturday night auto accident, Royal Beeson of Medicine Rocks died at the Baker Hospital Sunday morning. Death came as a result of injuries sustained when, while changing a tire on his own car, he was run into by a truck driven by Fred Martin of Ekalaka. The accident occurred about thirty miles south of Baker.
The coroner's inquest held Monday at Ekalaka for investigation into the accident, resulted in the finding that Royal Beeson met his death entirely by accident as a result of being struck by a truck driven by Fred Martin of Ekalaka.
Details as to the accident are few save for the fact that Mr. Beeson with his nephew was on his way home Saturday night from the Johnson coal mine where he was employed, and had stopped to change a tire on the Chevrolet touring car which he was driving. The lights of the car were out and Mr. Beeson was fixing the tire on a wheel toward the inside of the road when Mr. Martin driving the truck came over the hill. The car loomed up suddenly before the latter and in an effort to avoid crashing full into it, he swerved to the left, grazing the back of the car and striking Mr. Beeson, who was working on the back tire. The force of the impact threw the man approximately seventy feet from the scene of the crash and when he was picked up both rubber boots which he was wearing were lying at some distance from the body.
He was rushed at once to the hospital in Baker and Dr. Garberson from Miles City called into conference, but the injuries, consisting of two broken legs, a broken left arm, two fractures of the jaw and a fractured skull, were of so serious a nature that all hope of saving the man's life was abandoned and he died about fourteen hours later.
Mr. Beeson, who was employed in the Johnson's coal mines was on his way to spend the week weekend with his wife, a teacher in the Walter Anderson school district, when the accident occurred. He had been married a little over a year and was 21 years of age at the time of his death.
Funeral services are being held this afternoon, Thursday at the Medicine Rocks church.
Transcriber's note: Per Mr. Beeson's marriage record he was born in Madison County. He was the son of Charles A. & Stella M. (Morgan) Beeson.
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