CORDER, Clyde - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Clyde Corder, 49, a farmer employed on the Leo Simmerman farm was injured fatally Saturday afternoon when his tractor was hit by an automobile at a T-road at a cemetery near West Lebanon. The tractor overturned, pinning and crushing him under it. He died a half hour afterward. The auto was driven by Robert Simmenton who lives four miles south of West Lebanon. The accident happened only a quarter of a mile from Corder’s home.  He was a native of Oak Grove, Ky and is survived by the widow and two daughters, Mrs. Ethel Pugh, West Lebanon and Mrs. Louise Cahall, Danville, Ill.

The 45 bus passengers were endangered when Herbert M. Thompson, 57, the driver, suffered a slight stroke and afterward said he lost consciousness and probably regained his senses by a jolt of the bus after the vehicle had careened along three and one half miles. Passenger cars took to the ditch and the bus crossed a railroad track when a train was approaching. Doctors at Culver Hospital where Thompson was taken said he had suffered a light cerebral hemorrhage.