Reno Evening Gazette 23 Apr 1930
Girl Announces Her Engagement
ELKO, Nev., Apr 23. –– (Special) ––
The announcement of the engagement of Miss Alice Murphy of Elko to Mr. Vernon Zurfluh of Reno was made at an Easter party in this city Friday night. The message was contained in a small nest before each plate at a large table at which the following were seated: Mesdames Helen Smiley, Gerald Smiley, Vivian Murphy, Alberta Zeppler, Dela Carter, Midge Carter, Ellen Murphy, Elain Backus, Ruth Bell, Alice Merkley, Coralle Griswold, Onna Murphy, Pauline Quinn, Marian Alexander, Misses May Keller, Alice Talbot, Hazel Sewell, Marie Vetter, Dorothy Middleton, Geraldine Helfich, Louise Short, Della Oldham, Ada Grover, and Lucille Johnston.

1910 Nevada, Washoe County, Sparks Precinct, E.D. 76, sheet 11A, stamped page 230
dwelling 170, family 174
Zurfluh, Louis, head, male, white, age 45, married once for 8 years, born Switzerland, parents born Switzerland, imm 1882, naturalized, farmer
---------, Louise, wife, female, white, age 42, married once for 8 years, mother of 3 children, 2 living, born Nevada, parents born Germany
---------, Forrest Louis, son, male, white, age 4, single, born Nevada, father born Switzerland, mother born Nevada
---------, Harold V., son, male, white, age 3, single, born Nevada, father born Switzerland, mother born Nevada

1920 Nevada, Washoe County, Reno Township, E.D. 58, sheet 8A, stamped page 192
farm, dwelling 127, family 129
Zurfluh, Louis, head, rents, male white, age 56, married, born Switzerland, parents born Switzerland, farmer
---------, Louise, wife, female, white, age 53, married, born Nevada, parents born Germany
---------, Forest L., son, male, white, age 14, single, born Nevada, parents born Nevada
---------, H. Vernon, son, male, white, age 13, single, born Nevada, parents born Nevada

Reno Evening Gazette 9 June 1930, p.10
Youth Is Killed When Tractor’s Weight Breaks Bridge
Vernon Zurfluh, twenty-three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Zurfluh, prominent ranchers of Pleasant Valley in Washoe county, was killed yesterday afternoon when a power shovel which he was driving fell through a steel bridge over the East Walker river, nine miles from Yerington.
The forty-ton shovel, mounted on a caterpillar tractor, had reached the center of the bridge when the structure gave way and the machine toppled into the shallow water on its side. Zurfluh and a companion attempted to jump, but Zurfluh, according to witnesses, ran around the shovel and was caught beneath it when it landed in the water. His companion leaped to safety.
Though his head was held above water by members of the rescue crew they were unable to extricate him from the wreckage and he died within half and hour, presumably from internal injuries sustained when the tractor crushed his body into the sand of the river bottom.
Late last evening the body was taken from the wreckage after crews had worked for three hours digging the sand and rock away. The body was taken to Yerington and will be brought here tomorrow for funeral services, which are being arranged by the Ross-Burke Company.
The power shovel belonged to the Nevada Rock & Sand company, highway contractors. Zurfluh had been employed by the company for some time. According to friends he was to be married this month.
He was a native of Washoe county and had resided here all his life. A brother Forrest L. Zurfluh of Reno and his parents survive.
Soon after the body was taken from the water the gasoline tank of the tractor caught fire and exploded last night. The Yerington fire department was called and assisted in extinguishing the flames.
The heavy machine was still in the river this morning.