Death records for Park County Colorado

AUTO ACCIDENT FATAL TO THREE
     Fairplay, Colo., Oct. 17-Three persons were killed on a mountain road near here yesterday when the front wheels of a car carrying an Englewood Colorado picnic party collapsed and hurled it down an embankment.
     The dead: George Beamer, Mrs. Bernice Dwigans, Mrs. Bessie Haskell, a teacher in the Englewood schools.
     June Beamer, twelve-year-old daughter of one of the victims, although injured ran several miles to summon help.

Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada October 17, 1932

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WOMAN DIES FROM BURNS
Fairplay, Colo., March 4-Mrs. Margaret Ververs, twenty-one, who was burned over most of her body in a fire that killed her four months old baby and destroyed her home, died at the Fairplay hospital today.
Mrs. Ververs was enveloped by flame when a can of kerosene exploded while she poured the fuel into the kitchen stove in her home at Alma, mining village six miles from here.

March 4, 1939 Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada

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SPECTATOR KILLED WHEN AN AIRPLANE TAKES NOSE DIVE
     Fairplay, Colo., July 24-Will Oakley, 39 years old, one of a crowd of spectators, was killed here late Monday when an airplane piloted by George Marbut of Denver, plunged fifty feet in a nosedive splintering the propeller, a piece of which struck Oakley, crushing his skull.
     The plane fell within a few feet of the crowd and many persons were showered with splinters from the propeller, but all expect Oakley escaped with bruises and scratches.
     Marbut and his passenger, Searle Dennis, son of the Park county sheriff, escaped with minor injuries.
     According to Marbut the plunge was caused by the plane striking an "air pocket" which caused the machine to drop like a stone.

July 24, 1923 The Lincoln Star, Lincoln Nebraska

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H.T. Scott Funeral
Blue Springs, Neb., Sept. 26-Rites for Hubert T. Scott, 22, who died Saturday at this home at Fairplay, Colo., were held here Tuesday with Rev. E.E. Powell in charge. The family formerly resided here.

September 26, 1934 The Lincoln Star, Lincoln Nebraska

FALLS TO DEATH
Fairplay, Colo., Oct. 16-An 85 foot fall from a ladder in the South London gold mine killed Kenneth Thorn, 21, a miner, last night. Thorn apparently slipped off the ladder in a stope. His head was crushed.

October 17, 1938 The Helena Independent, Helena Montana

CHILD IS BAKED TO DEATH
Crawls Into Stove Oven and Mother Finds the Little One's Charred Body.
Fairplay, Colo.-The two year old child of Mrs. Frank Frissletto of Bailey was baked to death in an oven in her home here. The mother found the charred body of the baby when she returned from a few minutes' absence from the house.
The mother had built a hot fire to do some baking. She went out doors. The child, in some unaccountable manner, got into the oven and the door swung shut. It was heavy and could not have been opened by the baby even if it had known enough to try it.

December 27, 1911 Evening Telegram, Elyria Ohio