The evening world., 1911-10-18
THREE WOMEN
CRUSHED UNDER
AUTO; TWO DEAD
Car of +. S. Mailloux of
Springfield Skidded and
Overturned on Hillside.
WIFE HAD WARNED HIM.
Said He Wouldn't Take Any
Chances, but Road Was
Slippery.
WIFE HAD WARNED HIM.

HARTFORD, Conn, Oct. H.-As a
touring car In which were r. s. Mall
ioux, n contractor OF Springfield. Mass..
Mrs. Mailloux. Mrs. Julian HchardA.
seventy-nve. OF Harrisburg. Canada. and
her daughter-in-iaw. Mrs. Rose Richards
Of Champlain. N. Y. started down .
steep street leading out Of Warehouse
Point. eighteen miles north Of here. last
evening, Mrs. Maiiloux cautioned her
husband to go slowly.
Mailioux. considered an expert driver.
told his wife not to worry. as he WASN'T
'going to take any chances" He set
the brakes The road 10 considered dan
gerous under the most favorable con-
diuons, as II pitches to one side There
was Q covering OF dead maple leaves on
the oii-soaked highway and the ar
was foggy. The party had been visiting
In Hartford. Mrs. Richards. Mailloux's
aunt and her Observation-Disclosures guests,
were going home to-day and this VA
10 be their last auto trip.
Tbs machine had gone about .
quarter of the way down hill at twenty
miles an hour. Mailloux says, whom IL
swerved, slid over the slippery road
way. crashed into . trolley pole and
turned completely over. The three
women were pinned beneath the ma
chine. Mailloux was fung thirty feet.
e, For q moment he was dazed. Then
hs ran back to h overturned car
and tried to rescue the women. The
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truding from under ths side OF the
auto. Maiiioux BENT down and spoke
70 her but there was no answs
Then he called to his wife ana the
younger woman. No reply came to
his anxious queries.
WORKED IN THE DARK 70
j RESCUE WOMEN.
Nailloux began to shout h~ystsrfcalty
for help. Several men In . blacksmith
shop heard the cries. but they were
faint. and owing to the fog the men
could not tell from what direction they
came. II was nfteen minute before the
wreck was located. None Of ehs men
had brought a lantern. and the work oi
rescue was carried OF In the DARK
spurrsd by Msiiioux's frantic appeals.
the men raised the car enough 90 That
the women could be dragged out
DR.. Allen OF Broad Brook. four miles
away, wa. summoned. He was lost In
the fog and arrived . half hour after
the message was sent. BY the hght OF
q dingy lantern he hrst examined the
younger Mrs. Richards. who had been
killed instantly. the doctor said. Her
wothsr-in-law also was dead. but the
physician said she had probably lived
fifteou minutes. Mrs. Mailloux wal
breathing. but was apparently near
death. When told Of this. Mailloux be-
came wild with grief.
ION. why wasn't / kflled7" he cried.
vringing his gloved hands In despair.
why was ! left TO bear all this"
Just then rescuers and the dead lying
issthe road were almost run down by an
other machine. which stopped not. five
fest from the body Of The elder Mrs.
Richards. Mrs. Mailloux was lifted
aboard the car and with her husband
was rushed to her homo. No. go Summer
avenue, Springfield. There II was fount
abe had suffered no dangerous inJurds,
other than shock. from ths effects o.
which she may eve wholly recover
her phyaician fears. Mailloux sscApe<
without n scratch.
The bodies Of the dead women wsrt
taken to Warehouse Point.