Arizona republican., 1911-05-02
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 oEPLoRABLE YARNS.
Who was the Unfortunate?-Gatter
 or Evans.

Conflicting reports of the accidents which befell a Phoenix auto marty last Sunday afternoon and evening make IL impossible to state with certainty exactly what the extent or nature of damage sustained amounted to in reality A. R. Cater. the general agent of the Southern Pacific told sad story yesterday of the acci- dents which had befallen his esteemed friend, Eliot Evans. during the excur- sion, and when interviewed personal- ly on the subject Mr. Evans told an equally sad story about Mir Cater and party According to MT. Cater Mir. Evans day was made Gp of blow outs. stalls. and the stoniest variety of hard luck. According to Mir. Evans his day had not been marred bv q single cloud. His car rolled along over every obstacle, forded rivers without accident, and where other tires were punctured his seemed inn pervious. According to his account, also. MT. Cater had one of the most trying days imaginable, filled with ejaculations of sorrow and chagrin as tire abter tire blew out, and one difficulty was cleared away only to be followed by another.
 Last Sunday morning about 10 O. clock two automobiles rolled out of the city bound for the Superstition mountains where some members of the party had interests to look into. The first car was occupied by MT. and Mrs. Evans, l.. G. Knipe, and NTrc Il In ha second car were MT. and Mrs. Billey Gordon and MT. and Mrs. A. R. Cat ter. Concerning the forepart of the day nothing has been learned. It is presumed that the cars rolled along over the roads in fine fashion with out causing the drivers the least diff ficulty or necessitating the use of a single expletive As for the after noon, however. so much has been learned that not all can be told in one edition Mir Caters story fol- lows:
 Well. you would have died if you could have seen Elliot Evans last Sunday He had a continual round of pleasure-four blow-outs. and on top of it all the car got stuck in the
 
 Cough made him get out in the water and crank the engine. and he had the time of his life. Before we got to Mesa we found Dick Erdmans along the road in the worst fix you ever saw. One of his tires had blown out and he was trying to wrap the thing up with baling wire. You know about how much good baling wire would do on an automobile tire. He had been there for three hours trying to get it together and at the time We saw him he was holding up the jack that held the car, doing Herculean stunts. and working like everything. His wife was tired of waiting and his badly was carrying on at great rate. We helped him out and started for home, but it was after 10 o'clock when we left Mesa, and We didn't get here until after 12.'
 Mir Cater was almost painfully particular in giving every detail, tell ing of MT. and Mrs. Erdmans, also the baby. and particularly of Mir. Evans, but he avoided all reference to Cater. This part of the story was to come from MT. Evans. His story follows:
 No, no, no, Cater has been stuff fling you. Nothing of the kind oc- cured. I only had one blow out all day. and he had three, and the worst time with his car that l ever saw man have in my life. As for being stuck in the river,-why my car was the only one that did go through. We stopped away up on the bank. and rushed her down. and made 1t splendidly. We were going along finely until we found Erdman. found an extra casing for him, and left him on the road expecting to have them catch up before l reached Tempe. They were about six miles behind. They failed to show up and