K.. Matthews' Accident Scene

Charlie Olson: Yeah. About 1935, '36, somewhere along in there.

Bob Zybach: Was there. . . and he replaced the Matthews' house essentially.

Charlie Olson: The Matthews' house was torn down I think by then.

Bob Zybach: Was there any house in between?

Charlie Olson: No.

Bob Zybach: Okay so this is an old house in itself then.

K. Matthews' Accident Scene

Charlie Olson: This is the boundary to this 160 acre Matthews' place. Right there. That's the boundary.

Bob Zybach: Now the boundaty here has got a little creek here, was this creek always through here?

Charlie Olson: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: And this is where the horses started bolting on. . . you were telling us on Matthews?

Charlie Olson: Yeah, but they went out this way.

Bob Zybach: Okay, where did they find him?

Charlie Olson: I'm not too sure, but that. . . bog . . . I have looked and it ain't there anymore.

Bob Zybach: Okay.

Charlie Olson: So I'm not sure, it ain't very far out to where that was and all of those poles that they put across, of course, were taken out of there. But this is where they got started. And down there after they hit that and it threw him out, why it wasn't very far until they got separated somehow, they probably one went on one side of the tree and the other one on the other side and broke the neck yoke and got rid of the tongue and there they split up so that they weren't even fastened together by the lines anymore, but they came down and Cook saw it and he realized that there was something wrong and he come on up here and found that old fellow stuck in that mire with his neck broke.

Bob Zybach: When was that about, what year was that?

Charlie Olson: I haven't got anything that I can trace it with. Wanda could probably tell you, because her husband found him.

Bob Zybach: Okay, so that would be before 1926, she moved out of here in 1926.

Charlie Olson: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: So Wanda's husband was the one that found him. Okay. Charlie that's probably the bog down in there, I'm guessing, this is the road going up to Baker Mountain, you were describing. You said this road went up and you had dOerent ways you could go out around here.

Charlie Olson: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: How did those routes go from this road? We have Starker's gate up here off to our left which would be the north was this the way. . . did this road kind ofjust angle off up in here like this?

Charlie Olson: I don't know a thing about that road because that wasn't there. That is a logging road that has been put there recently. If she told you anything about this, why she probably knows, but I don't know a thing about this.

Bob Zybach: I think this is where when we were coming up you said, that the road went off and around Baker Mountain up in here about this point, was it down there further.

Angela Sondenaa: [ANGELA] There was no road, Bob, that's JU51 the route they went to school. Oh, it was just a trail?

Charlie Olson: Oh, you mean when . . . that we walked?

Bob Zybach: Yeah.

Charlie Olson: This is where we started. This is where we started to go up but we went up by this right like that you know.

Bob Zybach: Straight up? So this was just a short cut to school from here.

Charlie Olson: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: Oh, I misunderstood, I thought it was a road.

Charlie Olson: No!

Bob Zybach: Were you following any trail or anything or just making your own on it?

Charlie Olson: We made a trail by walking it.

Bob Zybach: I see. Okay. At this point here where we've got logging bridge down to our right and Starker gate to our left, and we're facing east this is the short cut over to the school.

Charlie Olson: Supposedly.

Bob Zybach: Okay.

Charlie Olson: Supposedly it was, but I don't remember now who it was that stood down below here and saw us going across there and told us later on that he believed that it would be