Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-23
AUTO BUMPED GROCERY WAGON
Aecidsnt on Main Street Narrowly
Escaped Serious CONSCIOUSNESS,

At $40 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
there We're few lively moments on
Nam street as a result of an automo-
bile humping into a grocery wagon,
but fortunately no serious accident.
The Main street paving had just been
Watered and was slippery. Frank OIL
schkieWievez of % Milk street, who
drives delivery team for III. Chasen,
was just ahead of New York auto
mobile bearing the registry number
1915, owned by William Hass of
Utica, N. Y. The latter was running
slowly along the wet pavement in
front of Z. r. Sadds store. when he
tried to change speeds and for some
reason the clutch refused to work and
before he could bring the car to a
standstill 1t bumped into the delivery
wagon and pushed it along for quite
a few feet. The horse attached to the
wagon became frightened and bottled
down the street with Olschkiewiexex
clinging to the reins The large UNI
brelia over the seat became loosened
and one of it's ribs struck the driver
in the head inflicting scalp wound in
the back. Frank was somewhat
wrenched by holding to the reins He
was taken to the Office of DIR. Frank
Camalfer and fixed up At the time
that the accident occurred the car
from South Coventry was coming down
the street as we'll as a truck team
owned by Henry n. Hyde, driven by
Eugene Neff. The traffic was SO con-
gested at just that particular moment
that 1t was almost miraculous that no
more serious accident resulted. A
large crowd congregated in short or
der. When Olschkiewievez came out
of the doctors Office he was taken to
his home in Mr.. Hass' automobile MIR.
Hass is visiting Joseph Wood on the
Brooklyn side, of the city. He said he
could not account for the failure of
the clutch to work. The only damage
sustained by the automobile was jam
ming the forward lights and break
ing the glass in the left forward. lamp.
Steering Gear Refused to Work.
Just as William J. Miller was driv-
ing home to dinner at 1910 O'Clock
Tuesday afternoon as he was round
ing the curve up the steep incline al
the foot of Jillson's hill to Pleasant
street, the steering gear to his auto
mobile refused to work and the course
of the machine could not be changed
and the automobile continued on in
its course and crashed into the fence
at the right. The only thing that
saved the machine and Mr.. Miller
from being pitched down the en-
a guy wire that ran down from a tel
egraph pole. The axle and lamps of
the auto We're slightly damaged, but
Mr. Miller was driving his car in the
afternoon.
Chauffeur Charged with Reckless
Driving.
State Policemen r. III. Wheeler and
w. e. Jackson have been doing some
work in Westport Center and last Sat
urday while in the performance OF
their duty .>hanced to be eye wit
nesses TO an automobile collision which
did not result very seriously although
one man is laid up with a broken wrist
and another is held in $500 bonds for
his appearance in court next Monday
afternoon at . o'clock.
The accident referred to occurred
right in Wcstport Center at The june
ton of three roads where there is
very sharp curve j. E. Southworth
of Middletown was turning the curve
and was hugging the right, or rather
his chauffeur was, when anoeher car.
owned by = E. Leonard of Massa-
chusetts, driven by John W. Dykes,
who has Connecticut license was
rounding the same curve from the OPP
posite direction and was also hagging
the same side of the road The ma
chimes came together with Il crash,
cut, a Middletown man with Mr..
Southworth sustaining a broken wrist.
The Middletown car was badly dam
aged. The driver of the Massachusetts
car John w. Dykes. was arrested by
Officer jackson and will be arraigned
in court, charged with reckless driv-
ing. 1t is said that neither driver blew
his horn ana the fact that the Massa-
car was hugging the wrong
side OF the road tends to indicate that
it's driver was the one that was re-
sponsible for the collision Officers
Jackson and Wheeler saw the entire
affair.