Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-05-20
SCORE ARE INJURED.
Big Damage Done in Greater Bos-
ton by Autom obiIes.
REMARKABLE SERIES OF MISHAPS IN
WHICH STREET CAR AND UNAWAY
PLAY A PROMINENT PART.
From Boston Journal OF May IS. !
Auto Accidants of Twenty-Four
Hours

Luggi Maise of Quincy first struck by
auto, then by trolley car and is badly
injured Taken to Quincy Hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Grimes OF Somer-
vile thrown from carriage in collision
with auto at Maiden. Another auto
hits curb.
Two machines collide on Main street.
bingham, and Mrs. Harry Cleverlv of
North Situate thrown out and injured.
Three year-old Irene McCullock of
Salem struck by automobile while cross
ing street and is slightly hurt as re-
suit.
Machine of c. E. Ericsson and ]. M.
Fernald of Newton goes through fence
on High street, Waltham. Neither man
hurt.
Automobile hits team of James Kelly
of Newton, taking wheel off Kelly S
vehicle and throwing him out.
Albert c. Titcomb in Cambridge Hos
pital with injuries sustained when his
machine went over an embankment
late Saturday.
Chauffeur, who refused name, bruised
when auto collapses in Arlington.
Goes to his home unassisted and sends
for auto
Nearly score of persons were in
iured, several of them seriously. and
hundreds of dollars damage was done in
the automobile accidents which occurred
in the vicinity of Boston Yesterday
Several of the accidents were surround
ed by unusual incidents. In one an
electric street car played part; in an
other runaway horse frightened by
an autOmobile), was responsible for the
wrecking of the machine, and in two
other cases the machines left the road
one of them turning complete somer-
sault down a twenty-foOt embankment.
Two of the persons concerned i'm the
accidents are in hospitals in critical
conditions, but no fatalities were re-
ported.
Lying in the Quincy City Hospital in
critical condition, his scalp almost
torn off and his right car hanging by a
thread of skin, is Luggi Maise of Brain
tree. He was hit by an automobile in
which We're Mr.. and Mrs. Louis f.
Goodspeed and Mrs. Goodspeed's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. William E. Francis
After being hit by the machine, Maise
was struck by street car.
The accident happened yesterday
afternoon near the Quincy city line, in
Braintree. Mr.. Goodspeed, who owns
the automobile. was driving, and MaiSe
is said to have run across the street to
board an electric car. Mr. Goodspeed
tried to avoid hitting Maise, and in the
attempt brought his automobile into
the middle of the car tracks, but the
machine struck the youth, knocking
him down.
Before Maise could arise or Mr..
Goodspeed get his autompbile out of
the way the electric car struck the
automobile, overturning it and throw
ing the four occupants over a stone
wall into field alongside the road.
The street car could not be brought
to stop, although the motorman put
on the emergency brake. Maise saw the
car bearing down on him and made a
frantic effort to arise, but before he
could do so the electric car was upon
him. The fender passed over the pros
trate young mans body and his head
was scraped by the iron fender.
The occupants of the automobile had
a miraculous escape from injury, for,
although they We're tossed in the air
and hurled distance Of about fifteen
feet, they struck on marshy land.