The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-12
A CLOSE CALL
FOR Al TO
RACERS
Marvellous Escape of the
Occupants of Fast
Car.

Never could people be nearer to
death and still Escape with their lives,
than the occupants of the Peerless car,
owned and run by Captain Barneson,
of the san Francisco firm OF Barneson-
Hibbard. Thrown over a cliff, thirty
five feet in height, their car rolling
over two or three times before it fin
ally landed in the Moanalua creek, the
four occupants escaped with broken
rib and a few bruises as the sum total
of their injuries.
The car was I'M different condition
altogether. One wheel torn off, the
front seat carried away entirely, the
back seat bent nearly double, the steer
ing wheel twisted as if it had been
smashed in the jaws of a gigantic vise'
the Peerless, probably the finest auto
mobile in the city, lay in the water
of the creek. How such damage done
could occur to the car, with SO little
injury to its occupants, is the wonder
of all who have seen the wreck.
The following story is told of the
accident by one of the occupants of
jim Quinn's Buick car, which contrib
uted in part to the accident:
I'VE had been ahead of the Peerless
car from the time that we left Hale
iva. as we started more than thirty
minutes ahead of Captain Barneson.
He came up like the wind, doing some
of the most reckless driving that
have ever seen. He skidded around
corners and made speed which was
dangerous to life and limb.
sThe accident occurred on the road
at Moanalua just before we reached
the side road leading to the polo
grounds. We were travelling at fair
rate of speed but by no means an eX-
cessive one. At the top of the hlli'
some three-quarters of mile oack'
Barneson had blown his horn as II to
say that he wanted to pass US. we
nuIIed over to the side and gave the
opportunity, which he did not aVall
himself of, however. At the place
where the accident occurred the ROAD
is hardly wide enough for two cars 10
mass abreast and there was no reason
that he should have selected this spot
..EIa never blew his whistle at the
time. but simply came rushing up anu
ius+ as he did so Quinn turned MS
oar ont a little from the right mana
s;sa RI avoid some rocks and the Peer
1ass inst Touched us. The contact was
=, SLIGHT that n fender was barely oent'
bI,t If was enough to send the Peer
less over the bank, crashing do"h
through a. fence and into the creek.
at the time, Quinn never knew that
an accident had occurred ou- uIo'e
abaad til we called to him 10 STOP
Even then he could not understand q j
what was the matter till ne Iooheu
hack and saw the wrecked car !ylhS
i'm the creek. OF course, we came oacA
a- once and did everything that We
could s..ou
word was sent at once to the doctor
~ the military post at Fort 0ilaiee'
and he came instantly, taxing d ste
ard and a stretcher. Before ne redCii
+ba scene of the accident, however
Re met a machine which was oill oiLts,LIt llis
.,,antain Rarnesou in. He was taken
a
, strarcher. then being carried into lhe
operating room. 1t was thousn'
t5rs+ that his injuries were severe out
.ar,i,.+ion showed that with the eX-
,,,,+ior Of a broken rib, and nunner
- sa,,are bruises. he was all right. Ihe
-t,ocly of the fall was worse than any
actual injury .,.4,, .ool,
o,oa assisted by Hospital
e,.a,,.ord Wood. and soon had Captain
r,-,.,,osor, an condition to be moved 10
4ba Aroana Hotel. He was aoie !"
l,,- cLS go Of the hospital himself
+1,o,,gl, naturally suffering a good ueS'l
OF pain. -.,+, that
l,,,,r, oarrot be blamed for the acc-
5ar+ as he had the right of way anu
LA NOT he expected to turn out
-r1a,- a1so saw that Captain Barneso"
i b,- ~, means the most careful OF the
drivers in the city. He has a machlIle
which is capable of a high speed anu
likes to make use OF ms ms"
when given an opportunity
on the other hand. it is stated tha'
one Of the occupants of Quinn's car
had been drinking quite heaFAy a'
that ne waved his hand to BarnesoI'
from the back seat. telling nun
come along. At this the San fran
cisco man is said to have starteu
ahead Quinn did not know what illS
passenger was doing, as his enersIes
We're benz entirely on handling the
machine in a narrow and bad piece OF
road. He supposed that since barn
son had neglected to take the first op-
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