Snow Cause Of 2 Deaths on Highway
Cresco, Ia.-Special: Two Calmar men were instantly killed early Saturday morning, the indirect result of a three-inch snowstorm which struck this area Friday night. The dead are:
Peter J. Stenseth, 45, operator of a livestock trucking business, and Robert Phillips, 20, employed as an assistant by Stenseth.
The accident occurred about 5:45 a.m., about a mile west of Cresco, on Highway 9, when the truck, driven by Stenseth, ran into a large tree which had fallen across the pavement. Howard County Sheriff Percy Haven and Coroner E.L. Bradley, who were called to the scene, said the weight of the snow caused the tree to break and that it fell across the highway a short time before the truck arrived at the scene.
Authorities expressed the belief that both men were instantly killed. They added that no inquest was planned.
Stenseth was married and his survivors include his widow and one son, Vernon, at home. Phillips was the son of Mrs. Eleanora Phillips. His father, Michael Phillips, died some years ago.
No funeral arrangements have been made.
Source: The Telegraph-Herald, Dubuque, Iowa, Sunday, September 27, 1942; Pg. 1, Column 6
