THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, January 25, 1923

 

Mr. and Mrs. Morris Rees, win­tering in Bunnell with Dr. and Mrs. D. B. Brown, left Saturday morning, accompanied by Dr. Brown, for Atlanta in answer to a phone call from that place stating that their son, Morris L. Rees, a student at Emory College, had met an untimely death in an automobile accident there earlier in the morning.

The story of the accident and resultant death of young Rees, as told in Sunday's Atlanta Journal is as follows:

“Morris L. Rees, a student in the school of liberal arts at Emory University, was killed early Saturday morning when the motor car on whose running board he was standing, skidded into a telegraph pole near the intersection of Virginia and Highland Avenues, crushing him to death. He died on the way to the hospital.

Mr. Rees, who was twenty two years of age, had been to a dance at Garber Hall and was returning to Emory University in a motor car driven by Joe Claunch. The car was so crowded the young man was standing on the running board.

At the instant of impact young Rees cried out in pain and his companions hurried him into the .machine for a dash to Grady hospital. Held in the arms of Ansley Seaman, his fraternity brother, the young man breathed his last.

Young Claunch, driver of the car, was prostrated with grief­ Saturday. He is said to have told questioners that the road was rough and slippery at the point or the accident, and that the back of the car swung around into the post.”