Clinton Short Dies from Injuries

AFTERHORT WAS FHEED FROM HEAVY THUCK Clinton Short lies at the left of the overturned truck in center of curious group awaiting arrival of medical aid. The truck had been turned back from its side, where it had pinned Short across the back as he laid face down. The accident occurred last Wednesday afternoon as Short, with Dave Burns and Jack Taylor, was driving to a fire. The truck overturned near the Ralph Houghton farm. Short died Wednesday night in the Parkview hospital, Plymouth.

VIEW OF THE SMASHED-IN CAB OF THE OVERTURNED TRUCK Another view of the truck in which Clinton Short, Jack Taylor, and Dave Burns were riding, showing the completeness of the damage to the truck. The enclosed cab was so badly caved in that spectator wondered that the occupants were thrown from it and that Short hadn't been killed while still at the wheel. The dirt and weeds picked up during the skiding are still on the wheels, while the weeds in the foreground show the path of the careening truck.

1938 - Aug 12 - Clinton Short Dies from Injuries Received in accident

Passed Away Wednesday Night At Hospital; Burns and Tayor Recovering.

Clinton M Short, age 45 years of Hibbard, died last night at the Parkview Hopital Plymouth of injuries he had recieved that afternoon when the truck he was driving turner over on Road 17, near the Ralph Houghton farm, pinning him beneath the heavy vechile. A fractue fot the base of the skull caused the death, it is said.

Short, as employee of the Culver Military Academy, was driving to fire at the DImmick farm on the Behmer road with Dave Burns and Jack Taylor, members of the Culver Fire Department, accompaning him.

As short attempted to pass a lumber trcuk going the same direction the left hand wheels went off the pavement and hit a series of bumps in the Houghton driveway. This it is believed, caused him to lose control of the vehicle.

The truck veered to the righ side of the road and Short attempted to turn back to the left, but the back wheels were in the soft dirt, causing the truck to roll over.

It is b elieved that taylor was thrown through the windshield at this time, and Burns went out of the cab on the second roll. When the truck rolled over the third time Short wea thrown out, the vechile coming to a stop on its side, pinning Short across the back.

It was some time before eough men assembled to lift the truck and free the injured ma, who was unconscious.

Medical aid was called and Short was taken to their homes.

Burns received a cut on an eyelid, a gasoh on the forehead, a bruised nose, a broken rid, a gash on the leg, cuts on hands, and injuies to his hacm and arm were the truck had wolled over him.

Taylor was not so badly hurt, escaping with cuts on the arms and head, an unjured back and numerous brusies.

This is the second fatal accident in going to a fire that Taylor has figured in. Four years ago he was on the fire truck that turned over, killing Fire Chief Alfred Cromley, Taylor suffered various cuts and brusies in that Crash...