Peters, Lester Dean - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Crawfordsville – Dr. J. B. Griffith, Montgomery County coroner has started an investigation into the school bus automobile collision, which resulted in the fatal injury of Lester Dean Peters, 9, of Kirkpatrick and the injury of others, north of Darlington on Tuesday. JD Pollom, of Brazil, driver of the automobile has been taken to the Methodist Hospital, Indiana, he is a brother of Dr. Robert Pollom, of Darlington.

Source: Munster Times 19 Oct 1927 p 15

Crawfordsville, Oct 19 – Lester Dean Peters, 12-year-old (sic) school boy of near Kirkpatrick is dead here today, five other pupils are nursing serious injuries, 13 others are bruised and shocked and two men are painfully hurt, as the result of a collision between the Bowers Station school hack and an automobile driven by Robert Pollom, 58 of Brazil at a cross roads known as Paddock’s Corner, north of Darlington, Indiana. The Peters boy died today in Culver union Hospital here.

Source: Lafayette Journal and Courier Wed 19 Oct 1927 p 1

Crawfordsville, Ind Oct 19 – Lester Peters, 12, of Kirkpatrick, died here today of injuries suffered in the collision of a school hack with an automobile driven by Robert Pollom, 58 of Brazil at a highway intersection  north of Darlington late yesterday.

Darlington, Oct 19 – Lester Dean Peters, 9-year-old son of Edward C. Peters, living near Kirkpatrick, was seriously cut on the head and neck when the school hack in which he was riding with 23 other children of the Sugar Creek Township, Montgomery County school, crashed into an automobile driven by Daniek Pollom of Brazil, Ind, four miles north of Darlington Tuesday afternoon.  He was rushed to Culver Hospital, Crawfordsville. Others of the more severly injured pupils were Frank Frodge, 12, injured head and ear cut; Lyda Simpson, 12, cuts about knees; Grace Hastaday, 16, back and leg injuries; Ernest Rusk, 12, injuries to head; Louis Wallier, 18, nose broken. Other pupils in the hack who suffered chiefly from shock and minor bruises were Hayes Peterson, 16; Barton Peterson, 12; Charlotte Sayor, 11; William Evans, Jr. 10; Ruth Livingston, 17; Neva Rus, 6; Merle Gregg, 16; Victor Gregg, 11; Catherine Gregg, 9; Belle Sewold, 9; James Price, 16; Russell Price, 11 and Vera Peters.  Roy Boots, 21, driver of the hack, sustained minor injuries while Pollom, driver of the other car, was suffering from bruises and shock. Pollom is a brother of Dr. Robert Pollom of Darlington to whose home he was taken after the accident.

Source: Crawfordsville Review 25 Oct 1927 p 1(sad worrying about the school bus and no obit for the boy)

Bowers, Oct 24 – Trustee Thomas Turnipseed of Sugar Creek township has purchased a new school hack to replace the one demolished last week in an accident, which cost the life of a Bowers school boy. Ross Boots, driver of the hack damaged in the accident will begin tomorrow driving the new machine. His brother, Paul Boots drove the hack today, the first day of its use.