KALISH, TURNER

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Marin Journal
Thursday, October 8, 1936
Page 1

Mother of Four Children
Geo. Turner, Railroad Man, Is Second Victim

Two persons are dead, one a mother of four children, as the result of an auto crash on the south end of the Richardson Bay Bridge early Tuesday morning at about 1:30 a.m.

The dead persons are Mrs. Florence Kalish, 33, wife of George Kalish, San Anselmo trucking contractor, and George H. Turner, 38, a fireman, employed on a N.W.P. freight train, and residing at Sausalito.

Mrs. Kalish was killed instantly. She was going north on the highway bridge, with Oliver Bertelson, of San Bruno, who was driving the car. Bertelson, aged 40, has both ankles broken.

Turner was with other railroad men, who had been picked up at Tiburon by a taxi car driver, driven by John McNeil, 26. McNeil has a fractured knee cap and facial lacerations.

The machines crashed head on, and is reported by traffic officers to have been one of the worst accidents to occur in this county in years. McNeil is being held on a charge of technical homicide and reckless driving.

The other men in the taxi were Fred Caldwell, engineer of a N.W.P. freight, living at Sausalito. He is 55 years of age, and desperate efforts are being made to save his life. E. N. Skinner, the third trainman in the taxi, is expected to recover from severe scalp injuries. He is 43 years of age.

Traffic officers, who investigated the accident, place the blame on the taxi driver. He was driving at a rapid rate of speed over the bridge, and appeared to have encroached too far to the wrong side of the road.

Both the taxi and the Bertelson machines were smashed and are total wrecks.