The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-11-06
WILSON IN AUTO WRECK.
RECEIVES SLIGHT SCALP WOUND
But WILL CONTINUE CAM
PAiGN.
Governor Was Thrown Against Top
OF Car When Machine Struck
Mound I'm POad.

Princeton, y. j.. Nov. 3.-Gov.
Woodrow Wilson tonight wears a mar
row strip of collodian and gauze
across the to-, of his head. covering
a scalp wound three inches long,
which he received early today in a
motor car mishap on the way home
from Red Bank, y. j. His automobile
struck mound in the road and jolted
him against a steel rib in the roof of
the Limousine car.
The wound is not serious, and the
Democratic presidential nominee will
fulill his speaking engagements in
Paterson and Passaic, n. j.. tomorrow
night. and attend to his correspond
ence as usual early tomorrow.
Tonight the governor was in the
parlor of his home. the centre Of a
group of friends. There was nothing
In his manner to indicate he had met
with any mishap. He said he did not
feel the wound in the slightest degree,
and had not even developed A head
ache from it,
Il guess I'm too hard headed to be
hurt" he said smilingly as he received
the correspondents.
DIR. j. M. Carnochan. the governor s
family physician. who dressed the
wound. issued the following state
ment about it tonight:
When l saw Gov. Wilson this af-
ternoon. l found he had received a
iaeeration of the scalp about three
inches in length. Otherwise he was
In good condition and seemed to be
suffering from no i'll effects"
The governors family was kept
busy answering the telephone tonight
alleviating the worry of friends who
had heard alarming reports, they said,
about the accident. The mishap oc-
CURED in the early hours of the morn
ing. The governor had spoken last
night at Red Bank. and left for
Princeton. a distance of 45 miles.
shortly before IL o'clock. Ho rode in
tho Limousine car Of Abraham I. Ell
kus. a New York lawyer. who lives
at Red Bank. accompanied by Capt.
William j. Mcdonald. his personal
bodyguard. who was shaken up and
bruised.
The machine was running about
10 miles an hour" narrated the gov
ernor tonight. "and we were going
very smoothly. near Highstown when
the Jar came. The chauffeur did not
see the mound of earth. being deceived
by shadow being thrown across. the
road. AS we struck Capt. Mcdonald
and i were thrown against the roof
OF the car. i felt of my head and
found that IT was bleeding. knew
| was not seriously hurt, but knew
that II was imprudent to continue the
Journey in the cold. so we stopped
some passers 10y and within few min
utes found the home of DR.. Titus at
highstown. He dressed the wound
carefully and cleansed 1t and we
went on to Princeton"
The physician shaved the governor s
hair surrounding the strip of antisep-
til plaster partly covering the bald
spot. His suit was stained with blood
al the wound bled profusely at first.
He said he was not disturbed in the
least by the accident. but by the fact
that Mrs. Wilson probably was wor-
rying about his delay in getting home.
He did not telephone anybody about
the accident and asked DR.. Titus not
To say anything about it until he
reached Princeton and when the gov
crnor arrived at home after o'clock
In the morning his hat covered the