The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-04
AUTO Ov[RTURNS;;
OCCUPANTS HURT
Speeding Machine Loses Tire
and Crash With Second
Car Follows
Man and Woman Thrown to the
Roadside and Suffer Sc
we're LaceratiOnS

A big Stearns racing car, occupied by
ments and Mrs. Gladys Crawford, who
lives in Ashbury street, was overturned
while travelling at high speed in the
Mission road early yesterday evening,
when the tire of the right front wheel
came off. The auto veered in front of
a speeding Oldsmobile owned and oc-
cupied by Mrs. l.. T. Yates with a party
of friends. Hanger and Mrs. Crawford
We're seriously cut and bruised. Both
were treated at the park and the CEN
trail emergency hospitals.
Mystery at first surrounded the acci-
dent, which was caused by the fact that
the two cars were racing for position
as they sped past the Holy Cross ceme-
terry. When the tire came off the
Stearns car, which was one of the con-
testants in the Portola auto races, the
speed with which the cars were travel
ing made an accident inevitable.
1t was necessary to bring those con-
cerned in the spill before the captain
of detectives before their names could
be secured.
hangers car was slightly in the
lead, but maintaining its position only
by opening it up to the top notch, when
the tire came off and the auto darted in
front of the Hayes machine In the
crash the Stearns car was overturned
and Mrs. Crawford and Hauger thrown
out and sent spinning along the road.
No one in the Yates car was injured
and the two stunned and bleeding peo-
pie were taken to the park hospital and
later to the central emergency. There
they refused to tell anything to Police
the party to the central station. Here
their names were obtained.
In the Yates party, in addition to the
chauffeur, was j. w. Voorsanger Miss
Ida Lockhart, Miss Pearl Lockhart
Mrs. l.. T. Yates, Miss Borda her niece,
and Miss Winch, who lives in Pine
street near Pierce
WOMAN is INJURED
Mrs. Alice Brissac sustained serious
injuries when she was hurled from a
touring car driven by her son late Sat
urday evening when it crashed into
big automobile guided by Millionaire
John c. Adams of Oakland. She is now
undergoing treatment at st. Winifred's
hospital and the other victims of the
collision are nursing minor injuries.
Belmore F. Brissac was trailing a
Sutter street car eastward late Satur-
day when between larkin and Hyde
streets the trolley pole jumped the
wire Brisac ha dto turn sharply to the
left to avoid crashing into the trolley
car. At the same moment John c.
Adams, the Oakland capitalist, accom-
panied by Warren B. English, former
congressman. was driving his big tour
in gear westward on the outbound
tracks.
The Brisac car had almost cleared
the right of way when the Adams auto
mobile crashed into the tonneau, hurl-
ing Mrs. Brisac violently to the side
walk. Both cars were badly smashed,
but the men quickly extricated them
selves from the wreckage and hastened
to the assistance of Mrs. Brsac, who
was lying unconscious, with gaping
wound in her forehead.
The injured woman was Immediately
removed to the st. Winifred hospital, in
the immediate vicinity, and an exam
ination showed that she had suffered
number of contusions about the head
and body, with possibility of internal
injuries.