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Note: EXETER VISITOR IS CRASH VICTIM ON RETURN TRIP
Ira Baker Killed on Ridge After Visiting Sister Here
Ira Baker, 40, who had been visiting his sister Mrs. Jewel Coble here last week, was killed in an accident on the Ridge Route near Lebec late Friday night as he returned to his home in Los Angeles.
Baker's car, in which he was alone, was involved in a head-on crash with one driven by Millard Rauh, Los Angeles wrestling promoter and manager. Jimmy Sarandos, 24, a wrestler riding with Rauh, was taken to a Bakersfield hospital suffering from critical injuries.
William Kennedy and George Wilson of Los Angeles, also wrestlers were more slightly hurt than Rauh. Kennedy weighs 450 pounds. Baker, a construction foreman on the metropolitan tunnel in Los Angeles, had been visiting his sister in Exeter while recovering from severe injuries some time ago when a scaffold on which he was working collapsed. He sustained fractures of both arms and of the pelvis in that accident and had recently had his left arm rebroken. It was in splints at the time of his death. He died of a crushed chest in an ambulance on the way to a Bakersfield hospital.
Harry Hopkins, chairman of the state hightway commision suffered painful leg injuries when his car crashed head-on with one driven by Paul Jones of Los Angeles at the scene of the fatal crash before the wreckage had been cleared from the highway. He was taken to his home in Taft and Jones was able to proceed after being given emergency treatment.
Baker's body was taken to a Bakersfield mortuary where his widow came to make funeral arrangements.
Was in Garfield Co., OK in 1920.
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