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Albert Richards
© The Eufaula Indian Journal, Eufaula, OK
Thursday, June 3, 1920
Submitted by: Annajo Cantrell Limore
ALBERT RICHARDS KILLED - Albert Richards, 17 years old, a student in the Bacone Indian School, was killed and four others injured when a street car crashed into a Bacone motor truck at the corner of C. and Fonulac streets at 4:20 o'clock Wednesday afternoon in Muskogee.
Young Richards, half-brother of Eastman Richards, died on the operating table at the M O & G Hospital one hour after the accident.
The truck which had been dispatched from the college after a truckload of ice was returning to the college. The students had been down town and jumped on the truck to ride back to the college. Reynolds and King ascending to the driver's seat and Richards and Anderson sitting on the floor in the rear end. Anderson jumped just in time to save himself while Richards was thrown directly in front of the street car, being dragged 50 feet under the hind trucks. Richards' left arm was broken and mangled and his right leg torn from his body. He was in a semi-conscious condition when the ambulance arrived but died soon after he reached the hospital. The unfortunate lad is the son of Mrs. Lulu Richards of this city.
The remains were sent to Checotah on the Thursday morning train, funeral services being held that afternoon with interment in Green Lawn Cemetery.
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