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Kyle, TX Auto Accident, Apr 1927
Posted November 18th, 2007 by Linda Horton
Railway Man Killed When Auto Overturns
AUSTIN, Texas, April 18 (Sp.)---Henry Ridley, 28 years old, division freight agent of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway Company at Austin, was fatally injured when an automobile in which he was riding with three other young men, law students at the University of Texas, overturned at a sharp curve on the Austin-San Antonio post road at a point three miles north of Kyle and twenty miles south of Austin early Monday. Arthur Stieren, who was driving. Gordon Johnson and Truman C. Warren escaped injury.
Ridley died shortly after being brought to the Seton Infirmary in Austin. His body was crushed and one leg broken. The party at the time of the accident were returning to Austin from San Antonio, where they had spent Sunday.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX 19 Apr 1927
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Transcribed by Linda Horton. Thank you, Linda!
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