On July 18, 1929, a fatal accident occurred on the Wild Cat when Frank Sudol was killed on the ride.�Sudol was attending a United Mine Workers picnic. While riding the coaster he stood up in his car at the top of the second high incline.�He fell backwards and his foot caught in the car. He was dragged to the bottom of the dip.�He was dead on arrival at the Nesbitt Hospital.�

He was originally misidentified as Emery Smith in the newspapers - but his correct identity was made the next day.�Sudol left a widow and 8 children.�

A few years later in mid-July 1936 Yolanda Flora, age 17, received head and body lacerations when she was beginning the coaster ride and was struck by a stray
piece of timber.next