Four Killed in Everett Bridge Tragedy
Two automobiles collided on the Weadwater Slough bridge near Everett, sending both vehicles and their passengers into twenty feet of water.
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Everett, Wash—While returning home from dancing parties, four persons were killed and four injured as two automobiles collided sidewise on the bridge over Weadwater slough, near here, early Sunday. With the wheels interlocked, the machines plunged through the guard rail and were submerged in 20 feet of water. The dead are Miss Rebecca Oliver, age 24; Miss Rowenna Landsley, age 20; Hugh Sidley, age 21 and Myron Liljenberg, 19. All victims lived in Everett. The submerged machines were brought to the surface late Sunday and the bodies of the two women and two men recovered.
“With the wheels interlocked, the machines plunged through the guard rail and were submerged in 20 feet of water.”
Early 20th-century automotive accidents like this one marked the transition of the American landscape toward the lethal risks of high-speed travel, a struggle that persists on Washington's roads today.
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