The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-06-24
.PITTSBURG WOMAN
FRACTURES SKULL
WHEN SPEEDWEll CAR GOES
OVER BANK AND TURNS
TURTLE.
Two Miles East Of Moundsvifie, on
campbeirs Hlil.-Five Others
Are Badly Injured.

Six persons were injured. one per
hsps fatally. Sunday evening. about
5:45 o'clock. when the six-cylinder
Speedwell touring car owned by ]. w.
Moorehead. of Moundsville, became
uncomfortable and hurtled over AN
embankment on the Campbell Hill
road. two miles east OF Moundsvilie.
The machine turned turtle in the fall,
throwing all the occupants out. Mrs
Alice Myers, OF Pittsburgh. sustain I'd
fractured skull the result OF falling
forcibly through the windshield ami
Is lowering on the verge of the val
ley of death at the Glendale hospital
All the other occupants escaped with
lesser injuries. Mr.. Moorehead. who
was driving the car. sustained three
fractured ribs. serious bruises about
the chest and a broken nose. Mrs
A. E. Lowe was deeply gashed across
the cheek by broken glass from the
windshield and will probably be dis
figured for life as a result Mrs
Moorehead and Mrs. Charles McCamic
the latter the wife OF n prominent
Wheeling attorney. escaped with only
minor bruises though both are suffer
ing considerably from the shock
Frances. the 6-year-old daughter OF
Mrs. McCamic. was thrown into a tree
top and practically escaped injury.
The exact cause OF the accident will
probably never be known. There had
been no rain in that section yester-
day and the road was firm and dry.
The party was returning from n trip
10 Fairview. a few miles east OF
Moundsville. II was about half way
down the steep and narrow Campbell
hill road that Mr. Moorehead. accord
ing 10 his own sta ement. lost control
OF the machine. which was running
very slowly and IL veered of over the
embankment A. II turned over the
passengers were hurled through the
air and scattered along the hill for a
distance OF fifty feet. The machine
alighted upright on a level twenty
feet below the road and ran 20 within
a few inches OF a l5O-foot drop into
the bottom of ravine before coming
10 n stop. Mrs. McCamic. CARRYING
her daughter in her arms. Jumped
from he machine just as II plunged
over the hill. II was Mrs McCamlc
who. after rescuing the child from its
position in tree. ran down the road
20 a farm house and telephoned 20
Moundsville for assistance. Or. Co
vert. in a machine from The Francis
garage. and DR. Streibich. In the J.
r. Roberts Cadillac. responded Mr..
Moorehead. Mrs Myers and Mrs.
Love- were rushed 20 the Glendale
hospital. while the other passengers
were taken home
Mrs. Myers was operated on at the
hospital last night by DR.. Covert.
What the result OF the operation will
be cannot be determined until this
morning. but Dr. Covert stated last
night that he victim had a chance
] for recovery. The outcome is doubt
full
Intense excitement was created IN
the little Mound City when the news
Of the accident reached town. and
when few minutes later word OF the
-. Il. ChaddoCk mishap near Elm
Grove was received. interest was at
foyer height. Nearly a score hf cars
and three hundred people visited the
scene OF the MOOrehead accident dur
iEE the evening The car was ap-
parently hut slightly damaged The
wind shield was broken. the lamps
and running gear damaged and one
wheel smashed but otherwise Il
seemed in fairly good condition. II
will be removed 10 a garage for re-
pairs to-day.
Mrs. a. y. Haley. Of Beaver. Pa.
mother OF Mrs. Myers and Mrs. Lowe.
the two most seriously injured OF the
victims. was notified OF the accident
last night. and al q late hour was
rushing 90 MOundsvllle.