Extracted from The Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA)
AUTO ACCIDENTS KILL EIGHT PERSONS DURING WEEK-END IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Whole Family Dies When Car Plunges Off High Cliff Near Fort Bragg; Berkeleyan Drowns Under Auto
Northern California automobile accidents claimed eight lives during the past 24 hours. Among the dead is a Berkeley druggist. The dead:
Beverly Stewart, 20, of 2819 Forest avenue, Berkeley.
{A picnic-bound automobile containing the Grivette family, Mrs. Jones and her husband, C. E. Jones, plunged through a railing of Jughandle bridge, near Fort Bragg and carried all to the[ir] deaths except Jones, driver of the automobile.
The machine dropped to a ledge 70 feet down a 500-foot cliff.
The occupants were pinned beneath the car. Passing motorists, hearing the cries of the injured, obtained assistance from a near-by ranch house. Jones suffered severe lacerations and bruises.}
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NOTES: A photo-image of the California Death Index, 1930-1939, shows three GRIVETTE deaths on 4 MAY 1930 in Mendocino County: Elmo, age 29; Lois, age 30; and Morette, age 5. The Index shows the death of no other GRIVETTEs in this 9-year period.
The news article excerpted above contained a few errors. Those dead evidently included Elmo GRIVETTE, his wife Lois, and their son Morette (not Moretti). He was born in Humboldt Co., CA on 3 OCT 1924 and was thus only 5 years old when he died. The others killed that weekend were in unrelated traffic accidents.
Monday, May 5, 1930
Mrs. Lois Grivette, 28 of Fort Bragg.
Louis Grivette, her husband.
Moretti Grivette, 6, their son.
Elmo Grivette, Fort Bragg.
Mrs. Mary Jones, 35, Fort Bragg.
Madison Simmons, 19, of Folsom.
Joseph Gregory, 22, of Auburn.