Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-11-14

five Woonsocket people experienced at
Mechanicsville, Sunday noon. All but
one, a Mrs. George jacques, 40 years
of age, escaped with minor injuries.
She has a fractured skull, and at the
DayKimban hispital Sunday night her
name was on the dangerous list with
little chance that she will recover
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Couture, Mrs.
Henry jacques and Christopher Car
penter. the latter the chauffeur, were
the other members of the party. Mrs.
Henry Jacques may be internally in
jured. She is now under the care of
a physician at the home of her sister,
in Dayville. Mr.. and Mrs. Couture es-
capped with. a severe shaking up but
without a scratch, and the chauffeur
only injury was small cut on the
wrist The latter considered it a mira :
Gle that the whole party was not killed
The party left Woonsocket Sunday
morning to spend the day with rela-
tives in Dayville and Danielson, Mrs.
Henry Marchesseault of Dayville and
Mrs. Louis Light of Danielson being
sisters of the fatally injured woman.
Being unfamiliar with the roads of
this section, the driver of the car was
proceeding towards Webster, when the
car was stopped at ,Mechanicsville, tina
inquiry might be made of a passerby,
about getting to DayvilIe. The direc-
tions received required that the car be
turned around and headed in the direc-
ton from which it had come. and it
was in making the turn that the acct
dent happetned. The highway circles
the top of an embankment high above
the rails of the Midland division at
this point. The car was, being backed
around to get it headed south, when
the brakes failed to hold. The rear of
the tonneau crushed through the fence
as if it were tissue paper, and the
heavy machine plunged backward
1r,rr Tho Ctr ali II, 7r-a1 a
rush, giving the appalled, tourists no
time to jump. The three women were
riding in the rear seat when the car
struck the track and stood on end and
it is believed that Mrs George Jacques
head struck a rail and caused the
fracture. The scores of people who
gathered helped the injured women TO
the French River Inn, close by, and
they were there attended by DR.. F. G..
Morrell and DIR. J. j. Russell hastily
summoned from Putnam. Later Mrs.
George JACQUES was removed to the
hospital. The other members of the
party were able to stand the ride to
Dayville in an electric car. At the
home Of Mrs. Marchesseault in that
place Mrs. Henry Jacques received fur
Their medical attention.
Mr.. and Mrs. Couture, were heart
broken over the accident. while Car
penter was completely unnerved. All
of the party except the chauffeur are
relatives. The car. which stilf lay be-
side the track Sunday night, practical
1y ready for the scrap heap, was the
property of Frank Bixby, who owns a
garage in Burnham street, Woonsocket
Foot and Ankle Crushed by Train.
Robert Fillmore, IS of Boston, swing
man on night freishts No. 1877 and No
1856, running between Putnam and
Boston, mad his left foot and ankle SO
badly crushed in the local yards late
Saturday night that it was found nee
essary at the Day Kimball hospital to
amputate the leg below the knee. Fill
more was getting off his train when ne
stepped on a lump OF coal which threw
him off his balance, and his foot went
under the wheels.