Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1920 — FATAL ACCIDENT IN LAKE CO. [ARTICLE]

FATAL ACCIDENT IN LAKE CO.

C. E. Elliott of Shorldan Is Killed When Near Crown Point. An undertaker from Sheridan, Ind., drove through here Wednesday forenoon on his way to Crown Point to get the body of C. E. Elliott, aged 60 yeans, a Sheridan drnggist, and former head ,of the Indiana Retail Druggists’ association, who was killed near that cdty Tuesday night when the car In which he was driving with H. P. Willwerth, proprietor of a Sheridan department store, turned over and pinned Mr. Elliott beneath the wreckage. The two men were on their way to Chicago, driving a nearly new Buick touring car, and report has it that the steering gear of their car broke, causing the car to go into the ditch and turn over. Willwerth was not seriously hurt. The wrecked car was driven to Sheridan Wednesday night and was parked for awhile in front of Long’s drug'store when the men with same stopped here, perhaps for a lunch. The accident was caused from striking some loose stone on the road at too high a speed, rather than by the breaking of the steering gear of the car. Besides a widow, Mr. Elliott is survived by six sons, Morris Elliott of Connersville, Kiefer, Pierre, Leo, Forrest and James Elliott, all of Sheridan. Another son was killed in the world war, and one also was killed in an accident several years ago.