Patterson Cemetery District, Stanislaus County, CA, Obituaries 

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Patterson Irrigator 19230628 p1

TWO YOUNG MEN KILLED IN ACCIDENT ON VOLTA ROAD
Aryle Lerouz, aged 18 and Francisco Vaiengueila, aged 22, were drowned Tuesday evening in 
a canal seven miles from Los Banos when Ford truck they were driving upset into the water 
pinning the young men under it. They were employed by Blanco & Taylor in hauling steel from 
the railroad at Volta to the upper works of the road contractors. The truck was loaded with steel 
and upset a few hundred feet from the section house of the canal company. No one saw the 
accident but it is supposed from appearances that the boys were driving very rapidly in an effort 
to reach camp by five o'clock, the accident occurring thirty minutes earlier, it is thought the car 
struck a rough place in the road and the heavy load forced the front fenders onto the wheels 
which caused the driver to lose control.