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CAR SKIDS UPON GRAVEL HIGHWAY NEAR SNOHOMISH; Catherine Tannis Jacobson fatally injured; companion unhurt.
VEHICLE PINS HER WHEN IT CAPSIZES; Herbert Cook, instructor, is thrown clear of machine on roadway.
Crushed beneath an automobile she was learning to drive, Mrs Katherine Tanis Jacobson, about 25. Everett, was killed at 3:30 Tuesday night on the Riverview road two miles west of Snohomish.
Her companion, Herbert Cook, a millworker, living at 1907 Oaken avenue, Everett, escaped serious injury. Mrs. Jacobson and Cook were rushed to the Snohomish General hospital by Ed Klitzke and Floy Rush,
who live nearby, but she was dead upon arrival there, Cook was released to relatives, suffering severely from shock and bruises. Investigating officers said the young woman was learning to drive in Cook's automobile.
They were riding along the Riverview road, when the car started to take a turn at what is known as Red crossing, or Faulkner's corner, too rapidly and skidded on the graveled surface.
Climbing part way up a roadside bank. It was thrown back to the right of way. It turned over throwing Cook clear and stunning him, but pinning the woman underneath.
Cook was sufficiently recovered when Klitzke and Rush arrived to assist them in taking her body out from under the automobile. The two men took Cook to the Snohomish hospital with Mrs. Jacobson,
and the hospital released him later, Mrs. Jacobson had a crushed chest and spinal injuries. Deputy Sheriffs Ole Reinseth and Jim Myrick were dispatched from the sheriff's office on the call,
but the victims had been removed when they got there. Mrs. Jacobson lived at 1710 Seventeenth street. Her husband, Melvin is a service station employe. He was on duty at the time of the accident, officer said.
Mrs. Jacobson leaves, besides her husband, a daughter, Juanita Jacobson: her parents, Mr. And Mrs. Paul Tanis of Getchell; seven brothers and three sisters.
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