For Star subscribers: Tom Mix, traveling 75 mph, died when he failed to see a washed-out bridge until it was too late.
Jerry Wilkerson Special to the Arizona Daily Star October 12, 1940 was a sun-drenched autumn day in Southern Arizona, with afternoon temperatures reaching toward 85 degrees.
Further up Route 79, near mile marker 115 about 18 miles south of Florence, the bridge was washed out by flash floods. Warning signs and barriers were in place with work crews on site. Standing on the brakes, the driver tried to stop his coffin-nosed Cord convertible, swerved twice, then rolled over upside down into the wash.
Tom made 370 western movies and, at the time, was the highest-paid actor in Hollywood, earning up to $18,000 a week — more than $220,000 in today's dollars. He was one of the most famous men in the world.
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