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"You are going to die at this corner before the year is out."

The Face at Death's Corner

By PAUL ERNST

Inexplicably, death after death occurred in traffic accidents at Death Corner,
and a young reporter set out to find out why

The other of the two men who had been in the death car still lay on the reddened pavement at the corner of King and Altsheller Streets. On what was left of him rested a ten-ton coal truck with a front wheel off. It would be hours before that immense bulk was jacked up and the draggled wisp of ex-humanity removed.

This one, who had driven the car, lay in the emergency ward, raving in delirium, with a cover mercifully concealing his body. He was dying, and the hospital was doing nothing but administer drugs to dull his agony. After a glance at him, the head surgeon had shrugged and declared it was futile even to try to operate.

One dead man back at King and Altsheller under the tons of metal and coal! One dying man here! That was the fatal toll of the spot recently nicknamed Death Corner.

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