The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-06-11
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
AT ST. LOUIS IN WHICH SON OF
FORMER CAIRO PHYSICIAN
Is HURT.
Or. Jas. A. Sullivan and Party Were
Dashing Across Eads Bridge in
Auto--Machine Smashed,
One Fatally Hurt.

Yesterdays st. Louis Republic gave
the following account OF an automo.
bile accident on the bridge there, in
which son of the late DR. J. G.. Sui
livan Of this city was one Of the seri-
ously injured:
Six men were injured, one of them
fatally, it is believed, when heavy
touring car crashed into the guard
rail at the east end of Eads bridge,
| at 1870 o'clock last night The driver
was speeding across the span at thir-
ity-five miles an hour, in an effort to
get across to East st. Louis without
paying the bridge fare. The auto is
i a total wreck.
The machine is the property of
Doctor James A. Sullivan, of No. 547
North Thirteenth street, East st.
Louis. He and George Lancaster of
No, 441 North Sixth street were the
most seriously hurt and the latter
cannot live, according to the physi-
clans at st. Marys hospital, East st.
Louis, r. G. Carricker of Venice suf-
fered broken arm and several body
bruises. He was sent home after be-
ing treated at the hospital
| The three other occupants of the
machine, bleeding from many bruises,
fled from the scene of the accident.
They did not wait to lend assistance
to their less fortunate comrades The
police were unable to learn their
/ names
When Doctor Sullivan, who was
handling the automobile and his com
panons started for East st. Louis,
they refused to stop at the west end
of the bridge and pay their fares,
Putting on full speed the automobile
was whirled swiftly past the ticket
taker
Collector Shouts Warning.
He telephoned to the collector on
the east approach to head off the ma
chine. When the joy-rding party
hove into sight on the east side the
machine was seen to be zigzagging
About hundred yards away it made
| a complete circle and then shot
ahead for the Illinois side. The col
lector shouted warning to the par
ty to slow down, but was greeted by
shouts from the six occupants of the
machine.
R. J, Phillips, the collector, step
ped into the middle of the bridge
roadway and Doctor Sullivan steered
the machine to the right side and
forged ahead He was running the
automobile about forty miles an hour
and when he turned out of the straight
course the machine skidded.
1t bumped into the heavy board
fence guarding the railroad tracks
thirty feet below. A large part Of
the fence was broken down and the
machine was splintered and twisted.
The six men were thrown from the
machine by the impact Thee of the
men were cut and bleeding but got to
their feet and ran away.
Little Hope for Lancaster.
An ambulance was summoned and
Sullivan and Lancaster were taken to
st. Marys Hospital Sullivan suffer
ed a severely wrenched back al
broken right collar bone and numer.
Gus bruises He will be confined in
the hospital for some time. Lancas-
ter suffered intensely last night with
internal pains His pelvic bones
were crushed and there is little hope
held out for his recovery.
Two of the three men who disap-
peared Immediately after the accident |
went to the saloon of Jack O'Connell. |
Broadway and Levee, beneath the |
bridge approach, and washed their
Carriker, the least injured |
Of the three who remained said he |
lid not know who the men were. He |
said they were friends of Doctor Sui.
ivan who owned the machine. In a |
coat pocket of Doctor Sullivan was
'ound a book of passes over the
bridge,
While waiting the arrival Of the
Doctor Sullivan repeatedly
begged the police to take him to a
hospital. He was not able to tell how
lie was hurt. Lancaster moaned over
md over that he never would go Joy
'iding again.