NELSON, Harry K.

Wickenburg (AZ) Sun Friday, June 24, 1960, p 1 Crash Results In First Fatalities In Wickenburg Patrol Area In '60 That part of Highway 71 approximately 10 miles northeast of Aguila is straight and level with nothing to obstruct the vision. Yet soon after 5 o'clock last Saturday evening a new Thunderbird sedan from Oklahoma and a Chevrolet pickup truck from California crashed almost headon. As a result, one man was killed and five others were injured. One of those injured was moved from Community Hospital here to St Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix Monday evening for more specialized medical care. She died there at 6am Tuesday. There wasn't much traffic on Highway 71 when the accident happened. So no one knows for sure just how long the injured lay on the roadside before a motorist saw the wreck and sped to Aguila to report it. And then it took more time for Mrs Al Stoecking to drive her ambulance from Gladden and for the Wickenburg Chapel to get its ambulance to the scene. Mrs Stoecking's ambulance arrived first and she and Highway Patrolman Bill Hanger took the two women who seemed to be the most critically injured. As the ambulance raced to Wickenburg, Patrolman Hanger kept his fingers in the mouth of one woman and kept her head turned downward so she would not drown from internal bleeding. That the woman lived two days is due to Mrs Stocking's speed and Mr Hanger's first aid knowledge for getting her to the hospital and into skilled hands in a hurry. And this happened to be the first time that Mrs Stoeckig had ever driven the ambulance which she and her husband put into use just a few weeks ago. The Gladden ambulance brought in two. The Wickenburg ambulance brought in three. Then the Gladden ambulance returned to the scene to take the dead man to the medical examiner in Prescott since the accident happened in Yavapai County. One man and three women were riding in the ivory color Thunderbird which was headed toward Aguila. The man, Harry K Nelson, 41, of Oklahoma City, Okla., was killed. The three injured women were Mrs Juanita Nelson, 50, and Eve Phipps, 47, both of Oklahoma City, and Connie Stocks of Clinton, Okla. It wasn't until the next day that the identity of the three women was determined. The names of two of the women, found in their purses, turned out to be wrong. One of those names was the woman they were going to visit in Los Angeles. Mrs Stocks died Tuesday morning. In the truck were two young men, James Lamb, 19, of Pasadena, Calif., and Peter Chapman, 18, of La Canada, Calif. They were headed toward Congress. Since the back of the truck had a canopy and was loaded with camping gear, it was supposed the two young men were going on a camping trip. The two men in the truck were the least seriously injured. Both vehicles were practically demolished. Of the Thunderbird occupants, one woman was thrown completely out of the car. One was pinned in by twisted metal with the dead man thrown across her lap. Highway Patrolman Charles Irwin was first on the scene. Before long Patrolman Bob Essig and Bill Hanger and Sgt W O Dollar were there. Judge Jerold B Kolar, justice of the peace and ex-officio coroner, came from Yarnell. Exact cause of the crash, says Sgt Dollar, may never be known. But, he says, tire tracks indicated that the Thunderbird had crossed over the white line into the path of the Chevrolet. "Faulty evasive action," he called it.