Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-26
Rapidly Moving Car Smashes r.
a Wreck Against Girder on Ma
rietta Road Bridge Over Irl-
man Yard Tracks.
CLOSE CALL TO DEATH
ENDS BOYS JOY RIDE
Adgie Whitaker Badly Hurt--Four
Other Boys Injured-Fal-Car Of
Jackson-Cerf Motor Co. Is
Wrecked.

One young boy may die, and four
others are more or less seriously injured.
as the result of an automobile accident on
the Marietta road near Atlanta, Wecines-
day evening
BY the narrow margin of some three
feet all of the party in the car missed
death. Within that close did the acci-
cent come of being repetition of the re-
cent Cuthbert horror
But the margin sufflced, and tin noon
Thursday the wreck of a handsome new
Fal-Car, belonging to the Jsckson-Cerf
Motor company, Atlanta, remained piled
against one of the steel Orders on the L.
& N. public bridge upon which the Mari
ettR road crosses the L. & N. railway
tracks, five miles north OF Atlanta.
Adgie Whitaker, 16-year-oId son OF ].
w. Whitaker, assistant yardmaster OF
the Southern railway In the Inman yards.
was still conscious and still alive UPON
bed at his home on the Marietta road.
with no change in his condition expected
| before evening, suffering with a left
arm broken in two places near the Shout
der, and with internal injuries THAI held
the serious possibility of a turn for the
worse.
Coley Whitaker, II years old, brother
| of Adgie Whitaker, was suffering with
painfully bruised hip. Bonnie May
Whitaker, u years DID, youngest Of the
three brothers, showed numerous brniaaa
and minor abrasions.
THE CHAUFFEUR INJURED.
Harry Lindborg, driver of the car, was
not accounted for He had boarded .
street car at the end of Marietta street.
Inman yard line few minutes after the
accident, Wednesday evening. and had
| then disappeared, abandoning the car
where IT stood. He was complaining OF
increasing internal pain when he was
last seen then. and has possibly developed
serious injuries by Thursday The force
| Of the impact OF the car with the steel
girder drove young Lindborg, who IL II
years old, against the steering wheel
with such force as to bend the whole
gear almost upright. Lindborg Is a SON
of \. J. Lindborg, ~ Strong street. .
tailor connected with Alfred Caresen a
co. He was employed as chauffeur By
the Jacxson-Cerf company.
| Carl Rentz, Is years old, the fifth mem
her of the youthful party in the wreck.
/ is a friend of Lindborg's. He was not
hurt beyond a few bruises and a bad
scare
HAD A BORROWED CAR
Apparently young Lindborg had the car
was with him when they stopped at the
home of the Whitaker boys on the Mari
( eta road to warm themselves ut the
family's fire. They said they had been
| 10 the river, and were on their way back
to town, but they urged the Whitaker
boys to come for a ride with them. and
the invitation prevailed. It was while the
car was on it's way back from the river.
where the party had taken it on e rapid
KIa han
about O'Clock.
The road from Marietta toward Atlanta
is cherted and smooth for some distances
tefore the bridge is reached. At the
bridge the road rises and turns quickly
to the right to enter the steel structure,
leaving a sharp drop of few feet on the
outer side of the curve to a narrow shelf
in the SO-foot cut The bridge spans
wide stretch of tracks.
GOING AT EXPRESS SPEED
l. W. Brantley of the state chemists
office at the capitol. who lives on the.
Marietta road not far from the scene Of
the accident says that he was walking
along the road Just beyond the bridge
toward the river when the car whizzed
by at express speed. He expected trou-
bile at the sharp turn toward which the
car was plunging, he says, and he turned
to listen. hearing the collision almost
Immediately.
The car made enough Of the turn to
collide with one of the slanting Orders OF
the bridge Three feet short of that
girder it would have jumped through the
span and crashed through the wood
guard rail to the tracks below.
THE CAR BADLY WRECKED.
The car was wrecked. Both tires on the
inside Of the curve exploded, and both
wheels on the outside were stripped clean
from the hubs. every spoke being broken
The lamps and guard rod were smashed
and the motor was badly shaken, though
the bonnet remained intact. The front
seat was carried away bodily and Janmcd
into the tonneau. 1t was here that AdgIe
whitaker was mashed. The attending