Local indie music blog The Perfect Face For Radio reports the following:

"Yesterday around lunch time Doug Meis, the drummer for Exo and the Dials; John Glick, the guitarist for the Returnables; and Michael Dahlquist, the drummer for Silkworm all died in a car accident in Skokie. They were coming back to work from lunch and were hit by someone speeding while talking on a cell phone (which is now illegal in Chicago)."

http://www.theperfectfaceforradio.com/home.html

Can anyone confirm this?

There's a nondescript article in the Tribune online blotter about an accident matching the time and date. two reported gone, four hospitalized.

no names were given, yet.





fuck.

Sorry, here's the nondescirpt link

fuck.

Here is the text from the article:

Chain-reaction crash kills 2 people and injures 4

Published July 15, 2005


SKOKIE -- Two people died and four were injured Thursday afternoon in a three-car crash in Skokie, police said.

Two cars going east were stopped at a red light at Dempster Street and Niles Center Road about 12:20 p.m. when the driver of a third car struck the rear of the second vehicle and pushed it into the other car, said Sgt. Scott Anderson.

Anderson said police are withholding the names of the people killed until their families are notified. He said the injured victims were taken to hospitals and their conditions were not available.

"We're trying to determine what happened," Anderson said.


Damn...

I sincerely hope this isn't the case.

*fingers crossed*

I don't know what to do with myself right now.

Hey everybody,

I hate to tell you this is true.

I will leave it to others to fill in any details for now. Certainly, I encourage you to do so.

Love,

Tim/SKWM

This saddens me.

My best thoughts are all I can offer.








Faiz

The only thing to say is this is so very sad.... well there are probably other things to say, but all I can think is what an awful thing to happen. I'm very sorry.

This is just horrible.

Tim, I am very sorry to hear this.

My sympathy and thoughts go out to everyone who knew these gentlemen.