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NewsJuly 28, 1996

Two Cape Girardeau County men were killed in separate weekend traffic accidents. A Jackson man, Eugene M. Wade Sr., 63, died Friday night in a one-vehicle accident on E. Jackson Blvd. at Jackson. Ronnie Humphries, 45, of Cape Girardeau suffered fatal injuries in a one-car accident on County Road 620, about three miles north of Cape Girardeau...

Two Cape Girardeau County men were killed in separate weekend traffic accidents.

A Jackson man, Eugene M. Wade Sr., 63, died Friday night in a one-vehicle accident on E. Jackson Blvd. at Jackson.

Ronnie Humphries, 45, of Cape Girardeau suffered fatal injuries in a one-car accident on County Road 620, about three miles north of Cape Girardeau.

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Both men were pronounced dead on the scene by Cape Girardeau County Coroner John E. Carpenter.

A spokesperson for the Jackson City Police Department said Wade was killed about 10:40 p.m. Friday when his vehicle ran off the roadway. The vehicle turned over on Wade, who had been ejected from the truck.

A spokesman for the Missouri Highway Patrol said Humphries died about 1:30 a.m. Saturday when his vehicle left the roadway and overturned several times, ejecting him from the car.

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