Title: "Week-End Auto Accidents Kill 2 Girls, 4 Men," Seattle Times, 10/28/1929, (ddr-densho-56-414)
Densho ID: ddr-densho-56-414

WEEK-END AUTO ACCIDENTS KILL 2 GIRLS, 4 MEN

Crashes on Highways of Northwest Take Toll of Lives; Six Persons Are Victims of Injuries.

Six persons, two little girls and four men, were killed, and six persons were injured in automobile accidents in the Pacific Northwest over the week-end.

The dead:

Mack F. Mason, 34 years old, killed last night when he backed his automobile from a parking place into the path of a southbound Everett interurban car operated by Motorman E.F. Goodwin of Everett.

Betty Jenkins, 5 daughter of Mrs. Roger Jenkins, Kalama, Wash., died in the arms of her mother at Tigard, Ore., yesterday after the automobile in which she was riding crashed head on with another. The child's mother and aunt, Mrs. Howard Jenkins, suffered minor injuries.

Riye Moryasu, 2, Japanese girl, was killed and two person injured near Auburn yesterday when a car driven by Mr. Moryasu, father of the girl, crashed into another machine on the Auburn-Enumclaw Highway. The father was arrested after the accident and today was being held in the Auburn jail on a drunken driving charge. The two injured persons were Allen Farrell and Mrs. Margaret Lusk of Seatle, who were riding in the machine struck by the Moryasu car.

Merle McNamee, 30, Lewiston, Idaho, timber mill employe, was killed when the automobile in which he was riding skidded sixty feet, then turned over and traveled twenty feet before righting itself again. The accident occurred on the Lewiston-Walla Walla Highway, twelve miles east of Lewiston, yesterday.

Samuel Greer, 42, Lewiston, Idaho, was a victim of the accident in which McNamee was killed. Both died from fractured skulls. Greer leaves a widow whose whereabouts is unknown.

George Dearinger, Seattle tractor salesman, was killed when his automobile plunged over Destruction Point, eight miles north of Wenatchee on the Chelan Highway yesterday.