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Death Rode The Wheels. And Mr. Wood Baird Dies Under His Automobile.
The most appalling of all the
automobile tragedies that have ever occurred in this section was that in
which Mr. Wood Baird met his
death, Monday night of last week.
It appears that Mr. Eugene Baird, his son, Mr. Wood Baird, Mr. Charley
Redford and Mr. Taylor
Redford, all went to Louisville Sunday using a Ford machine. On their
return Monday evening about
dark, the party came down the Dixie Highway at the brisk, but not
reckless, gait, and just above Horse
Cave they suddenly whirled around a sharp turn and hit a chug-hole in
the pike. Mr. Wood was at the
wheel, and, in avoiding the bad place in the road, drove too close to
the edge of the pike. The machine
instantly turned turtle, and all the occupants were thrown out and
almost instantly killed - living but a
few seconds. Mr.
Eugene Baird was badly shaken up, Mr. Taylor Redford had two ribs broken
and Mr. Chas. Redford was
badly bruised up. Mr. Baird's body was brought here to Mr. E. J.
Jewell's undertaking establishment and
prepared for burial.
The tragic affair created a tremendous sensation on account of the
prominence of all the parties, and
the popularity of the deceased.
Wood Baird was the son of Mr. Eugene Baird, who is probably the
wealthiest farmer of the county, and
one of the best beloved and most highly esteemed citizens therein. The
deceased was a quiet, greatly
liked young man, and was his father's manager of the estate of one
thousand acres at Goodnight. He
was one of the hardest, most industrious workers in the whole county,
and of an even temper and
sunny disposition that made his [sic] a great favorite with his many
friends all over the county.
Mr. Baird was twenty-five years of age and is survived by the
following: his father and mother, Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene Bard, his sisters, Mrs. Harold Wilson and Miss Mary Baird,
and a younger brother. The
family has a host of friends all over the county, and there was
universal sorrow over the tragedy.
The remains were interred in the Rogers family burying ground near
Goodnight, last Tuesday.
(** The KY Death Index has Wood Baird having died on Dec. 23, 1918.)
Unknown Glasgow KY newspaper.
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