The Niemuth
Family - Newspaper Articles
-- Oscar
Herman Niemoth --
- State Highway Death Toll Reaches
150
By United Press International
- Nebraska's 1958 highway death toll
jumped early today with the death of a Colorado man in a car-truck
- crash in Grand Island. Another traffic
death occurred Thursday night near Wood River.
- Killed in the car-truck accident
this morning was Harry Fry, Brighton, Colo., driver of a semi-trailer
truck
- that was in [a] collision with a
car driven by Hall County Treasurer Oscar Niemoth, Grand Island.
Fry's relief driver, Cecil Dewey, 40, Brighton, escaped with
bruises. Dewey was asleep in the cab of the truck at the time
of the impact.
- The accident occurred at 2nd and
Jefferson Sts. in Grand Island. Second St. is is Highway 30.
- Investigators said the eastbound
car apparently veered over and struck the left front wheel of
the tractor
- of the westbound truck. The truck
jackknifed and rolled over on its side, sliding 138 feet and
hitting a tree. Fry's hand was pinned between the top of the
windshield and the tree. He died before he could be freed from
the wreckage.
- The extent of Niemoth's injuries
were not immediately determined.
- The victim of the Thursday night
crash near Wood River was Dennis Ray Mohlman, five-month old
son
- of Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Mohlman,
Wood River.
- That accident occurred one-half
mile east and two miles south of Wood River at a county road
- intersection.
- The Mohlman car was in [a] collision
with one driven by Rev. Conley Hinrichs, 33, Wood River.
- Mohlman, 34, suffered shock and
undetermined injuries, and his wife, Jo Ann, 24, who was holding
- Dennis, was hospitalized with a
broken hip and shock. Another Mohlman child, Linda Sue, 4, suffered
a broken shoulder and shock.
- Hinrichs suffered a broken pelvis.
- The Mohlman car according to investigators,
landed in a water-filled ditch on the southwest corner of the
- intersection. The Hinrich car landed
on top of the Mohlman car.
- On this date a year ago, Nebraska
had recorded 130 traffic deaths.
-
- [Source: Columbus (Nebraska)
Daily Telegram, Friday, July 11, 1958, p. 1, col. 5]
- Hall County Treasurer Quits
- Grand Island (AP) -- The Hall County
board of supervisors has accepted the resignation of County
- Treasurer Oscar Niemuth.
- The board said the resignation was
a surprise and accepted with regret. Niemoth has been treasurer
- since January, 1955. The board
will appoint a successor.
- Niemoth didn't disclose his future
plans.
-
- [Source: Lincoln Evening Journal
and Nebraska State Journal, Thursday, January 7, 1960, p. 9,
col. 4]
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