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- Niagara Gazette - 3/20/1958
A 25-year-old Niagara Falls plant worker today became*
this city's second traffic fatality victim for 1958 after a car
he was operating became involved in a collision wkh another
car at 24th St. and Woodlawn Ave. last midnight. The
operator of the second car was injured in the accident.
The dead man was:
Roger A. Bauer, 25, of 2402 Ontario Ave., who died
of head injuries at 2:30 a.m. at Memorial Hospital.
Injured in the mishap was:
Victor A. Talarico, 38, of 2442 Woodlawn Ave., a general
Contractor, who suffered head, chest and knee injuries, Bis
condition was listed as "fair" at the same hospital.
Police said Bauer, an Internat
i o n a l Graphite and Electrode
Corp. employe and part time taxicab
driver, was driving hts own
car at the time. He was going
south and Talarico was driving
east when the cars collided.
Hurled Through Window
Bauer, according to police, was
hurled through a window of the car;
on the passenger side of the vehicle.
His car came to rest against a
street sign.
Talarico's car, police said, traveled
about 70 feet after the accident before
it struck a house occupied
by George Marincucci, 2403 Woodlawn
Ave.
The two men were taken to Me-
morial Hospital by Frontier Ambulance.
Police said they issued a summons,
charging failure to heed a
stop sign at the intersection, to Talarico.
It is returnable in City Court on
Wednesday.
Lt. Stanley Olszewski and Traffic
Officers Bruno Giunta and John
R. O'Farrell investigated the misi
hap.
Coroner F. Eugene Ingram said
he was withholding a death certificate
pending further investigation
into the fatality-
It was the first fatal traffic accident
here since Jan. 10. The two
traffic deaths to date in this city for
1958 compare to one at this time
last year.
Was an Inspector
Mr. Bauer was an inspector for
the International Graphite and Electrode
Corp.
He is survived bj his wife, Mrs.
Audrey Jane Bauer, two son Dennis
Allen and Robert Francis Bauer;
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick
T. Bauer, Town of Niagara; four
brothers, John. Joseph, Frederick
and Clarence Bauer, this city, and
a sister, Mrs. Betty Atkinson, Town
of Niagara.
Funeral arrangements, which will
be announced, are being made by
the Cornell and Daggett funeral
chapel.
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