Dies when trapped under car in creek
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Raymond Fisher of Weir Drowns in Cow Creak East of Scammon Early Today.
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Raymond Fisher, Weir City, 23 years old met a tragic death about 2 o'clock this morning when a Model A Ford Roadster he was driving plunged into Cow Creak 9 1/2 miles east of Scammon pinning him in the mud and water beneath it.
Death resulted from injuries Fisher received to the back of his head and to drowning. It is believed that he may have been knocked unconscious and then died from drowning when he was pinned beneath the car in the mud and water.
The accident occurred when Fisher driving east struck the banister on the southwest corner of the bridge. The car crashed thought the iron railed and plunged 15 feet to the ground below. It landed on the radiator and then turned over, pinning Fisher beneath it, with the top crushed in and the doors bent and wedged.
Pinned Under Car
Waldo Tweedy and Emer Watson, who were hunting in the timber nearby, heard the crash and hurried to the bridge. Although they feared somebody might be pinned beneath the car they were powerless to move it.
They summoned a wrecker from Pittsburg and it was not until two hours later that the car was removed from the creek and the body of Fisher was found discovered.
He was removed to a Pittsburg undertaking morgue before Victor Winter, acting coroner and Sheriff C. E. Simkin were summoned.
Winter and the sheriff conducted an investigation this morning and decided that no inquest is needed.
Fisher, who was employed as laborer by the Koss Construction Co., leaves his wife, Enid Fisher, a son David an his father of Weir.
Members of the family did not know why Fisher was in the vicinity of the bridge at that time of the night, Victor Winter, acting coroner, said.
At first they said maybe he had the accident because he was drunk. Dad took me and Irven up to see the body before they cleaned him up and told us to take a good look at what drinking will do to you. Later on they said he hadn't been drinking.
Raymond, he got killed in the fall of 1935. His car hit a bridge over there and killed himself. About a month before he killed himself, we took my little old 22, went with him to shoot rabbits, he showed me how to shoot rabbits and how to carry a gun and not be pointing it at nobody.