Death of "Pete" Smith in Automobile Accident. About 10 o'clock last Saturday, Mr. Eugene Smith, 22 years of age, was almost instantly killed in an automobile accident about six miles north of Elizabethtown, on the Dixie Highway. Young Smith, who lived in Indianapolis, had been to see his sister, Mrs. Jompy Jordan who was sick at his home in Chicago, and was on his way to this place to take his wife to their home. He had been up all the night before, and tourists who had been behind his car most of the time since leaving Louisville, noticed him nod his head several times on the way, and it was plain that he was showing the effects of loss of sleep. When he met a large truck belonging to the Whitney Transfer Co., he got on the wrong side of the road, and met the truck in a terrible crash, in which an iron rod was driven through his body and he was otherwise torn up, and died almost instantly. He is survived by his wife, who was Miss Celeste Ellis of Bruce, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Smith, two brothers, and two sisters, Messrs. George and Fred Smith and Miss Frances Smith of the MatthewsMill section and Mrs. Tompy Jordan of Chicago. He was a member of the Baptist church and was a splendid young man and was popular with his associates.
His tragic death is deeply mourned by all his friends. Funeral services were held at the residence of his parents, Sunday afternoon, by Rev. T. F. Grider, who had baptized him ten years ago, and burial was in the Glasgow Cemetery.
Glasgow Municipal Cemetery, 14 Nov 1906 - 16 July 1932.
Unknown Glasgow (KY) newspaper, found in an old scrapbook. |
