Henry Frank PALM

  General Notes:

Frank never married or had any children.

In 1918 he was a passenger in a car driven by Mattie's last husband Mills. Also in the car were his young niece Leona Babcock and his young nephew Clarence W. Palm Jr. The car went down a 20 foot embankment and Frank protected the children by holding them and keeping them from flying out of the car. Leona suffered a broken arm and Clarence suffered a severe concussion. Clarence suffered from severe headaches for the next 8-10 years and because of them had to miss a year of school. It is not known what injuries Mr. Mills suffered. Unfortunately, Frank's heroic actions cost him his life.

Death Notice, Toledo News-Bee, 06/03/1918
PALM - Frank, aged 33 years, on Sunday, June 2, 1918. The remains will be at the Boyer Chapel until noon on Thursday. Funeral services from the home of his mother, 1462 Oakwood Ave. on Saturday, June 8, at 2:30pm. Burial in Woodlawn Cemetary.

Front page story - Toledo Times
(Headlines)
1 Killed, 4 Hurt as Car Leaves Road
Henry Frank Palm crushed under automobile Near Waterville when machine hurdles from culvert
Had been out fishing
Pleasure-Seekers were returning to Toledo at time of accident - one of the injured is serious
(Story)
Plunging over a culvert on the road two mile north of Waterville Sunday afternoon, an automobile loaded with pleasure-seekers returning to Toledo from a day's fishing outing carried death to one man and injury to four other persons, one perhaps fatally.
The dead: Palm Henry Frank, 33 years old, meat cutter, 1462 Oakwood Avenue.
Four are injured. The injured:
Lenawee Mills, same address. Left shoulder dislocated, possible internal injuries, bruised about left sied; may be serious.
Mrs. Mattie Mills, mother of Frank H. Palm. Right shoulder dislocated and severely bruised about left side.
Clarence Palm, 4 years old, Injured about the head.
Leona Babcock, 8 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Babcock, 1249 Oakwood Avenue. Bruised about the body.
On a Fishing Trip.
The party was traveling about 20 miles an hour. The machine skidded for som unaccountable reason and plunged almost nose first from the culvert. Lenawee Mills was driving. The party had been fishing all day near Waterville.
Palm was crushed about the head. He was sitting in the rear seat at the time of the accident. His Brother, Clarence Palm, was in another automobile ahead with a sister and her husband.
The dead man was sent by another motorist to Boyer's undertaking rooms, 2948 Monroe street. The injured were sent to St. Vincent's Hospital and later to their homes.

The Toledo Blade, 06/03/1918

(Headlines)
Motor Wrecks Fatal to Two
Auto Skids into Ditch
Motorcycle Crashes into Buggy

Frank H. Palm, 34, 1462 Oakwood avenue, was killed in an automobile wreck three miles north of Waterville Sunday afternoon.
His mother, Mrs. Mattie Mills and her husband, Lennawee Mills, of the same address, sustained dislocated shoulders when Mills' automobile skidded and left the road at a culvert when they were on the way in to Toledo from a fishing trip. The car landed upside down in the ditch with Palm pinned under it.
Clarence Palm, the dead man's brother, was an occupant of an automobile running ahead of the wrecked one. He took his brother's body to Waterville and then on to Toledo to Boyer's undertaking rooms, 2948 Monroe street.
Clarence Palm, Jr. aged 3, and leona Babcock 9, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Babcock, 1249 Oakwood avenue, were bruised. They were taken to St. Vincent's Hospital.
(The rest is regarding the unrelated motorcycle accident)

I believe the second article is more accurate since it gets the ages correct. My father was only 3 at the time of the accident - he turned 4 in September of that year.

  Medical Notes:

Cause of death: unilateral hemothorax caused by automobile accident