Daniel L. Hilliard

Oct 27, 1914 - Dec 14, 1941

GOSHEN, Ind., Dec. 15. One person was killed, a second seriously injured and a third slightly hurt in an automobile accident on U. S. highway No. 33, one mile and a half west of here at 2:40 a.m. Sunday. Killed instantly in the crash was Daniel L. Hilliard, aged 29, 833 North Louis boulevard, South Bend, who died of a basal skull fracture inflicted when he was thrown into the windshield of the death car at the moment of impact. The driver of the vehicle in which Mr. Hilliard was killed, was discharged late Sunday from Goshen hospital after being treated for cuts on the head and face.

Still unconscious and suffering from a possible skull fracture is the driver of the second machine. State Policeman David I. Milbourne was told that Mr. Hilliard and his driver were southbound on U.S. No. 33, en route to Liberty, Ind., where they expected to spend the weekend with the driver's parents, when a northbound machine swerved directly across the three-lane pavement in front of them. The driver said he applied his brakes and swerved his auto to the left in an effort to avoid the collision, but due to the high rate of speed of the two machines, the right front of his machine struck the other auto on the right side, almost broad-side.

First to arrive on the scene Weaver, manager of Goshen Motor company, who drove to Goshen to notify police, and William Holtzinger, East Madison street, Goshen, who stayed at the scene and removed the two South Bend men from the wreckage. Holtzinger was unable to extricate the driver of the second auto who was wedged between the front and rear seats of his two-door sedan.

State police announced that investigation of the case will be continued as soon as the second driver regains consciousness.

Mr. Hilliard was born in South Bend Oct. 27, 1914, and lived here all his life. He was employed for six years the in display department of local the store  of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and for the last two years in the Samuel Spiro & Co. store.

Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Hilliard, South Bend, and a sister, Patricia Hilliard, of Evansville, Ind.

Friends may call at the L. H. Orvis funeral home until the funeral there at 2 p.m. Tuesday. Rev. Waldemar Goffeney, pastor of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, will officiate. Burial will be in Highland cemetery.

Article from 15 Dec 1941 The South Bend Tribune (South Bend, IN)

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