Clifford M. Smith

The funeral of Clifford M. Smith occurred here last Friday, interment 
being in the Odd Fellows cemetery.  He was killed in an automobile 
accident in Goldfield the preceding Sunday, breakage of a wheel on a 
car bringing about his death from internal hemorrhage.  He was a 
nephew of Mrs. Woodson Rathjen, and was a native of Iowa, aged 25 
years, 8 months, 26 days.  His wife and their young child survive him.

An announcement of the fatal accident, published in the Tonopah Times, 
says that a car wheel broke and threw Smith some distance, clear of the 
machine.  It was not believed at first that he was greatly injured, but 
he soon began complaining of a severe pain in the stomach and a few 
minutes later he died.

Aileen Stark, his cousin and the daughter of N. M. Stark, for whom he 
was working, was in the car and was much bruised and scratched.  Richard 
Lamb, driving the car was unhurt.

The Inyo Register
Bishop, Inyo County, California
Thursday, December 1, 1932

Transcribed by Pat Houser for Inyo GenWeb, July 17, 2004