Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-21
HANCOCK KILLED
IN AUTO WRECK
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force to tear away a portion OF the
tcnneau and throw Hancock out upon
the curbing, where he aliehted upon
his head and sustained a fracture Of
the skull at the base Of the brain and
another fracture over the right eye.
Saul was thrown out Of the buggy
into the street and sustained numer-
Gus scalp wounds and internal injur-
les which are regarded as being Sc
rious, II not Of fatal nature.
Passing the first telephone pole the
car dashed on down the street and
struck another pole, forty feet away
from the first, throwing the remaining
occupants out of the car.
Mrs. Hancock, her twelve-year-ole
daughter, Eugenia, and her nine-year-
old son, Newton, were thrown into the
street. Milton Hancock was thrown
twenty feet away onto lawn. Mrs.
Hancock sustained two fractures of
the skull and numerous body bruises.
Her condition is serious and she may
die.
Her daughter, Eugenia, sustained a
fracture OF the left arm and concus-
sion Of the brain.
Newton Hancock was the least in
jured Of. the party. sustaining several
bruises and cuts about the face and
body. His brother, Milton, was severely
cut about the face and body.
Auto and Buggy Wrecked
The buggy was a total wreck, but the
horse was uninjured. The automobile
was mass of splinters and twisted and
torn pieces of iron after the second col
Hsion with the telegraph pole, The car
was a Pope-Toledo heavy touring car,
built and improved by special orders
Of Hancock for speed and stability.
While the injured ones were lying by
the roadside, fifty feet away from
where Hancock lay, H. A. Stone drove
by in the automobile belonging to DR..
Schiffman and was followed by w. Me
mann and w. Vorweck in truck auto
mobile. These assisted the injured ones
into the truck car and they were hur-
ried to the receiving hospital, where
Hancock died two hours after the ac-
cident.
Hancock and his family had spent the
evening driving on the outskirts Of the
city and were returning home at the
time of the accident. Milton Hancock.
who was driving the car, and his
brother Newton were sitting In the
front seats. while Mr.. and Mrs. Han
cock and their daughter Eugenia oc-
cupied the tonneau.
They had driven several miles south
of the town and were returning on
South Main street. Milton Hancock
saws that he was driving at fairly
rapid rate of speed, when he saw a
man and buggy loom UP within hun
dred feet of him. This was Saul, the
dairyman, who lives outside the city
limits at Florence avenue and New
Main street AS Hancock turned his
machine to the left to pass Saul heard
the approaching automobile and did
the same. In an instant the heavy
touring car had crashed into the light
buggy, hurling the driver into the
roadside and destroying the buggy.
The force of the collision with the bug
gy caused the heavy automobile to
swerve to the left.
For quarter of a mile on either side
of the scene of the accident there are
no street lamps and to this is attrib-
uted the fact that Saul was not seen
in time to avoid the collision.
AS the six injured persons were ush-
cred into the receiving hospital at the
police station, it presented the appear
ance of an army surgeons ward after
a hard fought battle. While Mr.. Han
cock lay on the operating table and
the two surgeons worked over him, the
other members of the family sat around
the room uttering sometimes cries of
pain and sometimes moans of grief,
for it was all too evident that the in
jured man could not live.
After all the injuries had been
dressed and members of the unfortun-
ate party put to bed in the hospital. it
was learned that Eugenia, who had
stood heroically by and watched the
surgeons dress the wounds Of her
father, mother and brothers. was suf-
fering from a fractured arm. Although
suffering intensely she had not told the
physicians of her injury and in their
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the broken arm.
At 10 o'clock Mrs, Hancock was told
that her husband could live but a few
minutes longer. All the members of
the family were carried to the death
bed of the father and husband and Miss
Jennie Hildreth. Mr.. Hancock's private
secretary, arrived a few minutes be-
fore his death.
The bereaved family presented a