Tuynman, Harold 1922-1940

TUYNMAN

Posted By: Paul Van Dyke-Volunteer
Date: 8/2/2013 at 22:45:39

Source: Sioux City News (24- 4-1940)
ROCK VALLEY SPECIAL
Two brothers killed in the tragic automobile accident at Slayton, Minnesota, were former resident of Rock Valley. They were Harold and Lorens Tuynman and have lived near Slayton, Minn., for the past six or seven years .
The funeral was held in the Methodist Church of Rock Valley Wednesday and they were interred in the Rodk Valley cemetery, near the grave of their father.
SLAYTON. MINN
A head-on collision of two autos near here early Sunday took the lives of 11 young persons. Two others were injured, one probably fatally.
The impact was so terrific auto gears flew out of their steel cases. One of the bodies was hurled 60 feet. Others were strewn on the highway nearby or crushed in the wreckage.

Seven persons were riding in one machine and six in the other: The dead: Wayne Gamble 17,Hadley, Minn. Everett Johnson, 17 Slayton; Irene Schwab 17, Fulda Minn; Harold and Lorens Tuynman, brothers 18 and 19 respectively of near Slayton; Raechel Fisher, 17 , Fulda
In the other machine, all of Jackson; George Larson, 20, Carl A. Falk, 21; Gordon Meyers, 23; Leo Egge, 18; Hollis Luft, 21.
Near death in a Slayton hospital with five crushed vertebrate and other injuries is Cecil Jensen 17, Jackson passenger with Larson, Elmer Meyer, 18 Jackson also riding in the Larson car, suffered a broken arm and severe shock.
Capt Ralph Potzin of the state high way patrol said excessive speed doubtedly contributed to the death tollthe greatest in Minn traffic history
The two cars collided on hihway 58 quarter miles south of Slayton city limited. Slayton is 25 miles north of the border. Most of the victims were jammed forward in the cars by the terrific impact. Some bodies had to be pried from the wreckage.