Sioux Falls, SD Argus-Leader Tuesday, Jan 25, 1944
THREE KILLED IN CAR UPSET
Fourth Person in Poor Condition After Warner, S.D. Spill
Aberdeen, Jan 25 — Three young people were dead and a fourth was in “very poor” condition today after their car had plunged into the ditch and rolled over six times near Warner last night.
Killed instantly were Marlowe Lenling, 19, Stratford, driver of the machine, and Jeanette Stroschein, Route 1, Aberdeen. Duane Hopkins, 19, Brentford, died of a head injury in the Aberdeen hospital shortly after being taken there. Seriously injured was Beverly Fuhrman, 17, Warner, who was in “very poor” condition today at the hospital here.
The car, which Motor Patrolman A. J. Markuson said apparently was traveling at a high rate of speed, was demolished. Markuson said a blowout may have caused the driver to lose control of the machine. The victims all were thrown clear of the wreckage, to as far as 50 feet. There they lay for an hour before they were discovered about 8 p.m. four and one-half miles east of Warner by a Warner couple enroute to Stratford.
~Transcribed by extended Lenling family researcher, Kathy Smith