ALLEN, Max R.
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Both men were thrown from the car. Both were rushed by ambulance to the Gibson General Hospital in Princeton. Allen was pronounced dead and later removed to the Ziliak and Wade Funeral Home at Haubstadt. Mr. Lewis is survived by the father, Amos of Carmago, Ill and a brother and four sisters. Born at Tuscola, Ill he had lived in Chicago since his discharge from service after World War II. He was a commercial artist and was a member of the Cartwright Methodist Church of Tuscola. He is to be taken from the Wright and Kendall Funeral Home to the Wadington Funeral Home at Tuscola. Further arrangements are pending. Members of Lewis' family told Coroner Kendall that he and young Allen were friends and that Allen had been spending part of a furlough with Lewis in Chicago. Lewis was enroute to Florida and was taking Allen back to Ft. Campbell at the time of the accident.
Allen is to be taken from the Ziliak and Wade Funeral Home to Camp Atterbury. Further arrangements are pending.
Pvt. Max R. Allen, 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Allen of Veedersburg and a private in the US Army was tragically and suddenly killed at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday south of Princeton, Ind in a car-truck accident. Pvt Allen was hitch-hiking from Veedersburg to Ft. Campbell Ky as the fatal accident occurred. He had been visiting his parents in Veedersburg. The river of the car, Paul Lewis, a commercial artist from Tuscola, Ill enroute to Florida, was also killed. A truck was believed to have turned left into the path of the auto causing the passenger car to veer from the dual-lane highway and turn over several times. Max R. Allen was born at Attica, Aug 17, 1936, the son of Thomas and Bertha Hollenbeck Allen. The family moved to Veedersburg in 1949 where the father is employed in the signal department of the Nickle Plate Railroad. He attended Veedersburg high school and was employed at the Bell Service station before his enlistment in the Army in Sept 1953. He was attached to Co B, 710th Tank Batallion. Surviving are the parents of Veedersburg and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Allen of Sylvania, Ind. Family prayer services will be held at the Fishero Funeral Home in Veedersburg at noon Friday following which the body will lie in state at the Veedersburg Evangelical United Brethren Church for services at 2 p.m. The Rev. JS Pritchard will officiate at the services and the Veedersburg American Legion Post 288 will have charge of the military rites. Burial will be in the Wolf Creek Cemetery near Wallace. - kbz
Source: Anderson Indiana Daily Bulletin Wed Feb 10, 1954 p 19
Princeton, Ind - Lowell B. Lewis of Chicago died early today of injuries suffered Tuesday in a truck-auto crash south of here on US 41. A companion in Lewis' car, Max R. Allen, 18, Veedersburg died at the scene of a broken neck and crushed chest. State police said Lewis tried to pass a truck which was turning left. The truck driver, Arthur Meyers 40, Fort Branch escaped injury. The accident occurred 1 1/2 miles south of Fort Branch, 7 miles south of Princeton.
Source: Princeton, Indiana Daily Clarion Wed Feb 10, 1954 p 1
Two young men were fatally injured in an accident on highway 41 just south of Ft. Branch about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. Max R. Allen, 1n 18-year-old Ft. Campbell Kentucky soldier whose home is at Veedersburg, Ind was killed almost instantly and Lowell B. Lewis, 27, of Chicago died less than 12 hours later (at 2:50 a.m. Wednesday) in the Gibson General Hospital.
Coroner Robert D. Kendall stated that Allen had been killed almost instantly having suffered a broken, neck, crushed chest and other injuries. Lewis had suffered multiple injuries with the most critical being about the head. According to investigating state police and sheriff deputies, the accident occurred about a mile south of Ft. Branch on the straight-away portion of the dual lane highway just before the roadway makes a sweeping curve about midway between Ft. Branch and the Haubstadt junction.
A truck belonging to the Ft. Branch Mill and Elevator Company and being driven by Arthur F. Meyers, 40 of Ft. Branch and the Lewis car in which Allen was a passenger, were both travelling south. The truck started to make a left turn from the right lane of traffic into a cross-over to the northbound highway when the Lewis car was apparently about to pass. The car just barely caught the left front bumper of the truck as it swerved to get around the turning truck. It was enough however to throw the car out of control. Markings on the ground indicated the car had skidded after the impact and then rolled over some two or three to,es/
Arching skid marks made by the truck shewed on the highway beginning practically at the black center line and continuing in the direction of the left turn taken by the truck. Witnesses told authorities that the car had passed them shortly before the accident, "travelling at a high rate of speed." No charges have been filed at this time. Damage to the truck was only slight but the car was completely demolished.
Both men were thrown from the car. Both were rushed by ambulance to the Gibson General Hospital in Princeton. Allen was pronounced dead and later removed to the Ziliak and Wade Funeral Home at Haubstadt. Mr. Lewis is survived by the father, Amos of Carmago, Ill and a brother and four sisters. Born at Tuscola, Ill he had lived in Chicago since his discharge from service after World War II. He was a commercial artist and was a member of the Cartwright Methodist Church of Tuscola. He is to be taken from the Wright and Kendall Funeral Home to the Wadington Funeral Home at Tuscola. Further arrangements are pending. Members of Lewis' family told Coroner Kendall that he and young Allen were friends and that Allen had been spending part of a furlough with Lewis in Chicago. Lewis was enroute to Florida and was taking Allen back to Ft. Campbell at the time of the accident.
Allen is to be taken from the Ziliak and Wade Funeral Home to Camp Atterbury. Further arrangements are pending.
Source: Lafayette Journal and Courier Wed Feb 10, 1954 p 1
Veedersburg - Pvt Max R. Allen, 17 - year-old Veedersburg soldier was killed instantly Tuesday afternoon in an automobile-truck collision near Princeton as he returned to camp from leave. He was hitchhiking to Fort Campbell, Ky from Veedersburg and caught a ride with another soldier, Lowell B. Lewis of Chicago. Lewis was fatally hurt in the crash and died early Wednesday in the Princeton Hospital.
The accident occurred one and one-half miles south of Fort Branch on US 41, 7 miles south of Princeton. State police said Lewis tried to pass a truck which was turning left. The truck driver, Arthur Meyers of Fort Branch escaped injury.
Young Allen died at the scene of a broken neck and crushed chest as the car left the highway and rolled over three times.
Allen had been visiting his father, Archie Thomas Allen, while on a brief furlough. He was due back at camp Wednesday morning.
Born in Attica, he came to Veedersburg in 1949. He attended school here and enlisted in the Army in September 1953, after working at the Bell Service Station. He was in Company B of the 710th Tank battalion at Fort Campbell. Surviving besides his father is his mother, Mrs. Bertha Allen, address not known. The body is being returned to Veedersburg for services and burial.