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Katharine R “Kate” Russell Cook

Birth	:	11 Dec 1865 Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia, USA
Death	:	4 Aug 1913 Cabell County, West Virginia, USA
Burial	:	Spring Hill Cemetery, Huntington, Cabell County, USA
Coordinate	:	38.4091988, -82.4158020
Plot	:	31-87/88-2/7
Description	:	Suggested edit: Hinton Daily News and Leader, Hinton, West Virginia Tuesday, August 5, 1913, page 1 Huntington, Aug 4 - The most tragic automobile accident in or near Huntington occurred Sunday afternoon about 5:30 o'clock a short distance east of Blue Sulphur Springs and as a result of the mishap one of the occupants of the machine is dead, another seriously injured and the third badly cut and bruised, the disastrous affair transpiring in a few seconds. J L Cook, manager of the Diamond Hardware Company, and well known to the people of Huntington, took his wife and... Read More	Suggested edit: Hinton Daily News and Leader, Hinton, West Virginia Tuesday, August 5, 1913, page 1 Huntington, Aug 4 - The most tragic automobile accident in or near Huntington occurred Sunday afternoon about 5:30 o'clock a short distance east of Blue Sulphur Springs and as a result of the mishap one of the occupants of the machine is dead, another seriously injured and the third badly cut and bruised, the disastrous affair transpiring in a few seconds. J L Cook, manager of the Diamond Hardware Company, and well known to the people of Huntington, took his wife and son, four years of age, to Blue Sulphur Springs to spend Sunday afternoon. They made the trip in a Mitchell car, recently purchased, and this being the first trip Mr Cook had made from the city. After dinner he decided to return home and owing to the narrowness of the road and his little experience in driving automobiles, he drove beyond the hotel to make the turn. Reaching a broad place in the road he made a successful turn and started toward Huntington. Once more reaching the narrow part of the road where a steep mountain rises abruptly on one side and a high embankment drops in to the Mud river on the other, he was compelled to turn aside in order to pass another automobile. His two right wheels dropped into a rut running along side the road. After passing, he attempted to steer back into the road but was unable to pull from the rut, which was about a foot deep and filled with weeds. The weeds hid from his vision a slide in the road only a few feet ahead. In an instant before the occupants of the car could realize what was transpiring, the car had plunged over this slide, which dropped almost perpendicular into the river about fifty feet below. The engine being the heaviest part of the machine plunged downward and turned the car completely over. Before it reached the water it had turned turtle three times. When Mrs Cook first realized their inevitable fate, she seized her little boy and hurled him from the machine into the road, thereby exercising sufficient presence of mind to save the child from serious injury and probably from death. In the first turn of the machine she plunged out headlong and on the next roll it passed over her, crushing her terribly. She tumbled on into the river. Mr Cook remained at the steering wheel until the car struck the water, having been underneath the machine no less than three times. Both were taken from the river in an unconscious condition. A number of people saw the distressing affair and immediately rushed to their assistance. The little boy was in the road crying for his mother and father. Mr and Mrs Cook were taken from the water and carried up the precipice. The wife was placed in the car of Major W H Banks, and brought to Huntington with all possible speed, the trip being made in thirty-five minutes, the quickest known. The husband and child followed in the machine of C W Thornburg. Dr J C Schulz accompanied the car bearing the injured woman. She was taken immediately to the Kessler Hospital where everything had been put in readiness for receiving her, since the authorities had been phoned of the tragedy and to make preparations for the injured ones. Within fifty minutes from the time of the accident at Blue Sulphur Springs Mrs Cook was on the operating table at the hospital in this city. Dr Lindsay Vinson took charge of the injured woman. He at once realized a delicate operation would necessarily have to be performed if her life was to be saved, because he had discovered two bad fractures in her skull and apparently her head had been crushed. One fracture was on the side of the head just above the right ear. The other was found at the base of the skull. He was assisted in the operation by Drs Schulz, Hardwick, Taylor and Geiger. Nothing could be done to the fracture at the base of the skull, but they removed the bone which was resting on the brain at the other fracture and took therefrom a blood clot about the side of a pigeon egg. She rallied and her condition grew better, her heart action became normal and respiration was more regular. However, she did not regain consciousness and the physicians entertained little hope for her recovery, since they could not offer any relief to the injury at the base of the brain. She hovered between life and death throughout the night and until 8:50 o'clock this morning when she passed into eternity, having been unconscious from the time she made the fatal plunge. A strange thing about her injuries was the fact that she had no bruises, not so much as a scratch, on other parts of her body. Examination revealed that Mr Cook's condition was not precarious, suffering, however, from three broken ribs. The boy received an ugly gash to the head to which Dr C T Taylor gave several stitches. The body of Mrs Cook was taken in charge by Holswade undertakers but no funeral arrangements have yet been made. Contributor: Anonymous (48825891)

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Katharine R “Kate” Russell Cook's memorial is located at: Spring Hill Cemetery, Huntington, Cabell County, USA.
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Katharine R “Kate” Russell Cook death on 4 Aug 1913 in Cabell County, West Virginia, USA
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Latitude: 38.4091988
Longitude: -82.4158020

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Joseph Lassiter Cook

(1852 - 1921)

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Dr Joseph Russell Cook

(1909 - 2004)

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