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STREETER, N.D. (KFGO) – The Highway Patrol has released the names of two men who were killed in head-on collision between two semis Wednesday morning south of Streeter in central North Dakota.
Killed was 39-year-old Abdullahi Mohamud of Moorhead and Scott Schilling, 53, of Wishek, North Dakota.
Mohamud was the driver of a semi pulling a trailer that collided with the semi driven by Schilling. Schilling was pulling two trailers. A passenger in the truck driven by Mohamud, from East Grand Forks, Minnesota, suffered serious injuries. He was airlifted to a Bismarck hospital.
The crash, on State Highway 30, led to a six-hour detour while the investigation got underway. The patrol says the highway was dry at the time of the collision.
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Today in History, 1957: North Dakota woman one of 173 to die on U.S. roads on Christmas night
On this day in 1957, U.S. traffic deaths during the Christmas holiday reached 173 nationwide, including a North Dakota woman killed in a Minnesota crash.
Here is the complete story as it appeared in the paper that day:
N.D. Woman Yule Crash Victim
Death Toll Across U.S Reaches 173
Traffic deaths on Christmas night were only seven from the National Safety Council’s fatality estimate for the holiday period amid warnings the final toll would exceed it.
Among those killed on the nation’s highways during the brief holiday was a North Dakota woman.
She was Mrs. Martin E. Sitz, 54, of Park River, N.D., who died in a car-truck collision on Highway 2 about seven miles east of Fosston, Minn., late on Christmas Eve.
Her death raised the Minnesota traffic toll for 1957 to 666. That is 38 more than at this time a year ago.
No motor vehicle fatalities had been reported in North Dakota up to 11:30 last night.
Before the holiday got under way, the Safety Council estimated 180 persons would die in traffic mishaps between 6 p.m. (local time) Tuesday and midnight Wednesday.
Nearing the close of the 30-hour period, traffic deaths across the country had reached 173, according to the Associated Press.
At least 26 other persons died in fires and 14 were killed in miscellaneous accidents, bringing the total to 213.
Unseasonably mild weather in most parts of the country brought auto travel above normal.
Mrs. Sitz’ 51-year-old husband was seriously injured in the Minnesota crash and Archie Piotrias, 64, of Argyle, Minn., the truck driver, suffered chest injuries. They were hospitalized at Fosston.
Mr. and Mrs. Sitz, who had resided in Park River for several years, were on their way to the Twin Cities to spend the holidays with members of their family.
Mrs. Sitz’ death was the first fatality reported from a Christmas holiday in Minnesota, which is in the midst of its worst traffic year in history.
Park River is in Walsh County about 120 miles north and 17 miles west of Fargo-Moorhead. Fosston, in Polk County, is in northwestern Minnesota about 50 miles east and 60 miles north of Fargo-Moorhead.
In South Dakota, Alan Gates, 21, of Pierre died Wednesday of injuries suffered early Saturday when his car rolled over on U.S. 14, a mile east of Fort Pierre, S.D.
Gates, who had been attending Huron (S.D.) College, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jess Gates.
James Matthews, 21, of Pierre, and Connie Bartels of Fort Pierre, who were riding with Gates, have been released from the hospital.
The death was the 176th on South Dakota highways so far this year and 10 fewer than on this date a year ago.
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(Photo by Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)
(North Dakota Monitor) – For 90 years, the North Dakota Capitol’s window lit Christmas tree has been an annual holiday staple.
The Christmas tree design in the Capitol windows first appeared in 1935, said Sarah Walker, head of reference services for the State Historical Society of North Dakota, who has researched the display.
Construction on North Dakota’s Capitol was completed in 1934, replacing the Capitol building that was destroyed by fire in 1930. Walker’s research from newspaper stories showed that architects and the superintendent of the Capitol Commission discussed using the tower to display designs.
The first Capitol lighting display was in 1934 as construction on the building was wrapping up, Walker said. It depicted a cross in the windows to commemorate Easter.
Later that year, the star of Bethlehem, containing 120 lights and measuring about 16 feet in diameter, was the first Christmas decoration for the building, although it was affixed to the top of the building and not displayed in the windows, she said.
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