Mrs. John Schurr
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - August 31, 1928
FATAL ACCIDENT ON TRAIL GULCH
MRS . JOHN SCHURR LOSES HER LIFE SUNDAY WHEN CAR GOES INTO , GULCH—HER HUSBAND AND SON RECEIVE SERIOUS INJURIES AT SAME TIME .
A very sad automobile accident occurred on Trail gulch , eight miles north of Gypsum , last Sunday evening in which Mrs . John Schurr , aged 47 , was instantly killed when the Chevrolet touring car which her husband was drivin g left the road and rolled to the bottom of the gulch , about fifty feet below . -Mr . and Mrs . Schurr , who live on II . P . Olesen s Cooley mesa rauch . five miles west of Eagle , together with their three children , Wanda , a three-year-old daughter , David and Clem , sons , aged 6 and 13 respectively , had been to Derby mesa for a Sunday visit with two other children , Mrs , Frank dates , and Frank Schurr , and were on their return home from a very pleasant days out ing when the fatal happening brought grief and sorrow to a large and devoted family . The accident occurred about one and one-half miles below Dry Lake , ou th e north slope of Trail Gulch , on one of the worst places for an accident of the kind on the road . Mr . Schurr was driving , with Mrs . Schurr by his side in the front seat , nad the children oc
cupying the rear seat . The firs shower of the night s bard rain had fallen previously and the road was very slippery . As the car rounded a sharp curve coming up the hill , the driver apparently lost control and it veered to the outside of the road , heading for the brink of the gulch , which is probably fifty feet deep at this point and the bank almost straight from top to bottom . The car left the road about seventy-five feet from the point of the curve and rolled to the bottom of the gulch , lighting bottom side up . As the dcvupants of the car realized what was happening , Mrs , Schurr s last words were for the safety of the baby , callin g to the older lad , Clem . to save the baby . He did so . jumping clear of the car and rolling down the hill with the babe in his arms , and these two escaped without a scratch of injury . Mrs . Schurr s body aws partially pinned under the ear as was that of the father , while David was thrown clear of the wreck , but suffered a broken bone in his lower right leg . The mother s death was instant , her neck being broken in the crash , while Mr . Schurr suffered severe injuries in one hip and ankle and back The accident occurred just at dusk , which , owing to the pending storm , came early Sunday evening . Mr . Schurr . with the aid of Clem , managed to extra , t himself from the wreck , and the two also freed the mother s body from the car . It commenced raining again , when a tourist car , containg a Doctor Monk , a young chiropractor , and his wife , of Denver , passed the scene . The wrecked car was
not visable from the road , and neither Dr . Monk or his wife heard the frantic crys for help , but Clem managed to run up the gulch and head them off . The gentleman at once went to the assistance of the unfortunate people , and ascertained that Mrs . Schurr was dead . Guided by Clem , he took the smaller children at once to the Marcus High ! farm home at Dry Laki s . Before Dr . Monk returned the writ . er , accompanied by T . E . Lew-is . on the return from fishing at Sweetwater lake , passed the scene of the a cident , but saw nothing of the trouble fail d to hear the frantic call Schurr for help . Bui a short i VIr , Philli lives at the Dry Lakes ranch with law , Marcus Hight , re-tun with I ) :-. M irmed us of the troubl and we had sent Cm Gypsum ¦ r min h ! work , in the dark and dnwnpou rain . body o I woman out to the higlv and to assist the man out into my car . where we also ph body o this wife and took Hi em to the Hight homo . After giving Mr , Schurr and the injured lad such assistance as we could , Mr . Lewis and myself drove to Eagle and sent Dr . P . T . Rucker to their aid . Murray Wilson taking him out In his car . Dr . Rucker could not not determine the extent of the injuries to Mr . Schurr . aud he brought little David to his home in Eagle for attention , accompanied Mr . and Mrs . Frank Schurr . An Xray of the lad s limb disclosed a bad fracture of one leg bone above the
ankle which Dr . Rucker reduced , and gave the little fellow such other attenI tion as owuld make confortable , Mr . I Schurr was taken to the Hopkins hospital in Glenwood Monday morning and there examination discovered several small bones in his left foot broken , his right hip badly hurt with : Injuries to hds neck and in his chest . i Dr . Hopkins said that there might be Internal injuries which had not devei . oped so as to be detected , and he advised he should be confined to his bed for at least thirty days . Mrs . Schurr s funeral was held at Gypsum Wednesday afternoon , an account of which will be found in the Gypsum depatment of this weeks Ea . terprise . o
