WARNER E. WRIGHT FATALLY INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT

PASSES AWAY IN NEW YORK YESTERDAY

Former Assistant Cashier of First National Bank Drives Into Open Elevator Shaft-Crushed Almost To A Pulp Friday Night He Lives Until Sunday Morning

Warner E. WRIGHT, thirty-seven years old, prominent Elk clubman and former assistant cashier of the First National bank, was fatally injured in an automobile accident in New York city Friday night. He died yesterday morning at nine o'clock and Fred WRIGHT, a brother and former Aurora resident, is now on the way here with the remains. The deceased was a posthumous child. He was born four months after his father was killed at Madison, Wis.

WRIGHT suffered terribly from the time of the accident until he died
yesterday morning. Both of his legs and arms were broken, both jaws were
fractured, his teeth were knocked out and his spine was injured.

WRIGHT went to New York, February to become associated with his brother, Fred WRIGHT, in the automobile business, the latter being New York agent for the Staver Automobile company.

Drives into Open Shaft.

The accident in which WRIGHT was so terribly injured happened late Friday night. He ran his auto into an open elevator shaft at the entrance to an automobile accessory shop at No. 244 West Forty-ninth street, New York, falling with the machine sixteen feet to the basement floor. He was dragged out of the wreckage of the wreckage of the automobile and hurried to the Flower hospital. Fred WRIGHT was notified and hurried to the hospital. By the time he arrived the injured brother had recovered consciousness. A telegram telling of the accident was received by O. T. MASON Saturday morning. Later a second telegram was received saying he had a chance to recover. Yesterday morning a third one was received telling of his death.

The remains will arrive in Chicago over the Pennsylvania railroad tomorrow morning at eight o'clock and will be brought at once to the home of his mother, Mrs. Frances MASON WRIGHT, 27 North Lincoln avenue, where funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at four o'clock. Friends are invited to the house but burial services in Spring Lake cemetery will be private.

This came from the Beacon News, Aurora, Kane Co., Illinois on June 19, 1911.


Contributed by: J. Holmes on 9 Feb 2000

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