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The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., April 28, 1960, page 1

PETERSON RITES SATURDAY AT TL

Wayne Darrell Peterson was killed in White Salmon April 26th. His usual residence was Trout Lake. He was born in White Salmon, April 19, 1939.
Those surviving are his wife, Jeannie Peterson, Trout Lake and daughter Wendy, 16 months. His mother Evelyn Peterson, Trout Lake; sisters, Carol Bradshaw, White Salmon; Bernice Bradshaw, White Salmon; Lynn Peterson, Trout Lake; Grandmother Mrs. Pearl Marshall, Vancouver.
Funeral services will be held at the Trout Lake Grange Hall, Saturday, April 30th, 2 p.m. with interment in the Trout Lake Cemetery.

The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., April 28, 1960, page 1

WAYNE PETERSON KILLED IN WRECK, DARWIN STENCIL CONDITION CRITICAL

Wayne Darrel Peterson, 21, son of Mrs. Evelyn Peterson of Trout Lake, was killed and Darwin Stencil, 21, of BZ Corners critically injured in a spectacular crash of Stencil's 1956 coupe at 11:25 p.m. Tuesday, on block west of the Hood View Hotel in White Salmon. Stencil was driving.
Also injured was Jerry Lewis, 20, of Wishram who suffered minor are and chest injuries. He was released from Skyline Wednesday morning.
Lewis told the State patrol that they had been drinking and estimated Stencil's speed through the White Salmon business section at "at least 70 miles per hour."
Stencil lost control of the car near the old Lauterbach home. The coupe catapulted over the left highway bank for 250 feet through rocks and trees before stopping.
The crash woke up the entire neighborhood. Mrs. Ruth Stauffer, high school English teacher, called State patrolman Wayne Hinkleman who assisted Harry Davis, night policeman, and the Mt. Adams Rescue Crew in removing the youths to Skyline hospital.
First of the scene of the crash were Mr. and Mrs. Bob Yso.
They found Stencil lying outside of the car, but with his legs trapped in the vehicle. Gardner's ambulance took Stencil and Lewis to Skyline while the Rescue Crew extricated Peterson's body which was wedged behind the steering wheel. Peterson was taken to Skyline in the Rescue Car, but died within 30 minutes.
Funeral services for Wayne Peterson will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 30 at the Trout Lake Grange Hall. Burial will be at Trout Lake.
Casket bearers will be Terry Parker, Danny Frey, Doyle Bradshaw, Larry Marshall, Phillip Luke, Aarvid Sakshaug and Oliver Helgeson. Wayne was born April 19, 1939 at White Salmon and has lived at Trout Lake all of his life. He was employed in the woods by SDS Lumber Co.
Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Evelyn Peterson; wife, Jeannie (nee Marshall); daughter, Wendy, 16 months; sisters, Carol Bradshaw and Bernice Bradshaw, both of White Salmon and Lynn Peterson of Trout Lake; and grandmother, Mrs. Pearl Marshall of Vancouver.
Peterson's father, Carl Peterson, and brother Wesley (also 21 when he died) were killed November 24, 1952 when their car struck a lumber truck one half mile south of BZ Corners.
Wayne, then 13, was not a passenger in that car but his mother, sister Lynn, and aunt, Mrs. Irene Elmer, all of Trout Lake, were badly injured.
Peterson's death is the fourth fatality from one-car accidents in Klickitat and Skamania Counties since March 2, according to Sgt. Hinkleman.

The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., April 28, 1960, page 1

ONE KILLED, TWO HURT

A traffic accident in White Salmon Tuesday night claimed the life of a Troutlake youth and injured two others, one critically.
Fatally injured was Wayne David Peterson, the son of Mrs. Evelyn Peterson, whose husband and another son were killed in a traffic accident about nine years ago. He died of injuries less than 30 minutes after he was taken to Skyline Hospital in White Salmon.
Injured critically was Darwin Stencil, 21, also of Troutlake, driver of the car, and Jerry Lewis, 20, Wishram. Lewis suffered arm cuts and apparently was not injured seriously.
Lewis told State Patrol Sgt. Wayne Hinkleman that the car was traveling about 70 miles an hour through White Salmon. He said the vehicle apparently hit a curb, flipped in the air and crashed headlong into a big tree, pinning Peterson and Stencil inside.