Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-10
THREE HURT IN MOTOR SMASH
Car Breaks Down on West Dodge and
Spills Occupants.
NO ONE THOUGHT FATALLY HURT
Edward Morris, ChauffeurJ Or. e. E.
Carroll and Frank NickersOn
Are victima Brought to
Omaha.
J ONE THOUGHT FATALLY HURT

Three men were dangerously hurt and
fourth had miraculous escape from in
jury ut 3:15 o'clock Saturday afternoon
when an automobile in which they were
riding at q extreme speed left the Dodge
street road, eight miles out of the CITY,
broke telephone post, turned upside down
over a barbed wire fence and lit In a corn
field. The injured men are Frank H. Nick
erson OF Fremont. agent Of the Hamm
Brewing company and owner OF the
wrecked car; Edward Morris of Fremont
his chauffeur, and DR.. e. e. Carroll of Des
Moines, travelling salesman for the Des
Moines Drug company. Leo Fell of Dallas
s. D., travelling man, was the other oc-
cupant of the car.
DR.. w. A. Thomas. an Omaha dentist,
driving in a machine immediately behind
them, stopped and extricated the men from
the wreckage. Frank Nickerson and DR..
E. e. Carroll were taken by him in his
automobile to the police station. where he
reported the accident and then took the in
jured men on to st. Joseph hospital.
The police emergency automobile, with
Police Surgeon c. H. Peppers, was rushed
to the scene for the other victims. The
Bradley q Dorrance ambulance answered a
call to the place returning to the st. Jo-
obpiA hooPAbaA WIN fLoWaIQ MOTIFS, LIT.
Peppers attending him on the way In.
DR.. T. ]. Dwyer. who is attending the
injured men at the hospital, said late last
night that none you'd die, unless undis-
covered internal injuries proved to be the
cause.
Chauffeur BADLY Hurt.
Edward Morris. the chauffeur. is the
worst injured of the three. A badly bruised
back. liberation of the left arm, right knee
and the calf Of the right leg. a severe cash
in the right thigh. cuts and bruises about
the right side of the head and internal
hurts were his injuries.
Frank II. Nickerson was badly bruised
and laceratsd about the legs and may have
sustained internal injuries. No bones were
broken.
DR.. Carroll has four broken ribs besides
dangerous internal injuries After cur
sorry examination last night 1t was said
the broken ribs were pressing on his
lungs.
Fell. was able to tell partly how the ae-
cident had happened. The front right
wheel of the automobile, he said, broke
under the strain OF the machine turning
the curve just beyond the Atlantic dairy.
I'VE we're going at a pretty fast rate"
Fell said, las we passed over the little
bridge in the Dodge road near the dairy
and started down the straight stretch OF
roadway toward the curve where the ac-
cident took place. The chauffeur was
turning ct the wheel heading for the curve
when the front wheel on the right side
seemed to give way. Several spokes broke
out. The machine went out of the road
and went about fifty feet along the grass
at the side before striking the telephone
post. I was In the back seat and fell out,
think, before we struck the pole.
The telephone post was broken off at
the ground and at two other places above
The machine tumbled down a ten-foot
embankment, going over a barbed wire
fence and landing in wreck of bent and
twisted iron and brass, turned about In the
direction from which It had come
Nickerson and DR.. Carroll were found
beneath the wreckage. Morris was thrown
several feet. landing unconscious in the
cornfield.
The wrecked machine. a large winton
touring car, is total loss.