When their car ran off a 20-foot fill about two miles on this side of Albemarle Monday night, Jake Kimmer and Claude Tucker, Stanly men, were fatally hurt, another man named Tucker suffered a broken shoulder and a fourth man, whose name could not be learned here, was badly bruised and cut.
Four Concord men, returning from Albemarle about 11:30, extricated the dead men from the wreckage of their car and carried the injured Tucker to the Albemarle Hospital. The concord men were Wesley Walker, Archie and Raymond Snyder and Eugene Isenhour.
According to these men they saw a man sitting on the side of the road, waiving an arm, when they reached a point about two miles on this side of Albemarle. They did not stop, not knowing what he wanted, but later decided to go back since the man seemed to be hurt.
When they reached the man, who proved to be Tucker, he told them he had two buddies at the bottom of the fill, and he expected they were dead. Tucker could not move one arm, the Concord men said, and he was bleeding from numerous cuts.
Crawling down the side of the fill the four Concord men felt among the wreckage of the car until they located the bodies of Kimmer and Claude Tucker. Both were dead and the bodies were almost cold, it was said. The party had no light and had to feel about in the ruins of the car to locate the bodies. Of the Concord men placed Tucker in Mr. Walker’s car and carried him to the Albemarle hospital. They also notified police officers and the coroner of Stanly County. Two of the party remained with the dead bodies.
When the officers reached the scene of the tragedy and removed the bodies, the Concord party returned home.
Reports from Albemarle this morning stated that a fourth man was in the wreck and was undergoing treatment in the Albemarle hospital. This man was not seen by the concord men and must have either walked in to Albemarle or have been hidden somewhere in the ruins of the car. His name could not be learned.
Tucker, the Concord men stated, asked that he be taken to his home instead of the hospital but the request was not granted. Apparently, he wanted to get home without anyone knowing he had been in the accident.
A large broken jug was found near the car, it was reported, and odors of alcohol were much in evidence.
An inquest into the tragedy is to be held in Albemarle sometime this afternoon, it was reported here.
From page 4 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, July 13, 1926
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