Dubuque Telegraph-Herald
Sunday, June 1, 1924
Pg. 3, Column 5
Mrs. Lena
Klemme Is Killed In
Allamakee County Auto Wreck
WAUKON,
Iowa, -- May 31 -- Special: Mrs. Lena
Klemme, 45, of Waukon, mother of Mrs. Ralph Russell, 1009
Garfield avenue,
Dubuque, was instantly killed at 7:45 Thursday evening when a car in which she was riding plunged over an embankment near
Dorchester. Mrs. Henry Snicker**, 63, of Waukon, is in a critical condition in a hospital. Two other passengers escaped with minor injuries.
William
Schwartzhoff, a farmer living near
Dorchester, was driving the car. He turned out too far in attempting to pass another auto and his machine plunged down the embankment.
Mrs. Klemme is also survived by a son, Arthur of Waukon.
**This spelling is exactly the way the newspaper spelled it, not a typing error on my part.