Potosi Man Dead After Franklin County Wreck

(Franklin County, MO.) A Potosi man, 35 year old Timothy J. Buerk, is dead after a traffic accident Wednesday afternoon in Franklin County. According to Highway Patrol reports the wreck occurred just after 3 o'clock as Buerk was driving west, in the eastbound lanes, on the South Outer Road, east of the 243 mile marker. Buerk's vehicle crashed into a dump truck Driven west by 21 year old Robert G. Strode of St. Clair. Buerk's car was totaled and he was pronounced dead at the scene.