Butler County KS Archives Obituaries.....Ashmore, Dora Wanda September 22, 1933
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The El Dorado Times, Saturday, September 23, 1933
The El Dorado Times
Saturday, September 23, 1933

TWO GIRLS KILLED IN A TRUCK CRASH

Two girls were killed and ten other persons were injured when a heavy oil truck 
crashed into the rear of a light truck at a point 16 miles south of Wichita on 
Highway No. 81, last evening.

The dead are:

Dora Wanda Ashmore, 13 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Ashmore, living southeast 
of Peck, and Dorothy Hatfield, 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Hatfield, 
living in the same neighborhood.

The injured who were taken to the Wichita Hospital were, Edythe and Maxine 
Ashmore, Wilma Hatfield and Imogene Reeser, all children of school age. None 
was injured seriously.

Others in the light truck were the driver, Mr. Ashmore, Joe Reeser, a neighbor, 
Johnnie Reeser, son of Mr. Reeser, Velma Hatfield, Mary and Mamie Ashmore. All 
of these persons suffered slight hurts.

The party was on its way to Waco Wego to attend a meeting of the 4-H club.

Officers said the driver of the heavy oil truck was Bert Massey of the Forum 
Hotel at Wichita, and that the truck was owned by the Wasson Oil Company of 
Wichita.







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