The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-10-14
Automobile Accidents.

Fair week produced an unusual nun
Der of automobile accidents of differen
degrees of seriousness, none of then
res ulting fatally. In two instances, how
ever, the occupants of the cars were fol
tunate in escaping with their lives. Ow
ing to the good work of the local officer
the hundreds of automobiles and wagon
which kept High street congested Oh
Thursday, were held well under control
and no accidents occurred in the center o
the town. Officers were stationed a
intervals from the fair grounds to tn,
fountain, and all traffic was kept to tn,
right. The accidents reported all hap
pened on the outskirts of Mount Holly
While standing at the corner of Higf
and Garden streets after missing the ter
O'Clock trolley to her home in Burlington
young lady accepted the invitation o
a Roebling acquaintance, named Miller
who was accompanied by male friend
to ride home in his automobile. Mrs
Harry Heck and another Mount Holly
lady decided to go along with the inten
ton of returning on the next trolley
With the party thus made up they
started on their journey, and about 9
mile beyond the fair grounds the auto
mobile ran into the loaded ice wagon Of
Isaac l.. Shinn, which was returning
from Burlington in charge of the latter
and his brother Joseph. 1t is said that
Shinn was on the right side of the road
and displayed lighted lantern. The
force of the collision demolished the ice
wagon and badly damaged the car. One
of the horses was struck by the machine
and had all four legs broken. DIR. j.
Hume Carter was sent for to kill the
animal The road was covered with
wreckage, among which were found the
occupants of the two vehicles, all hav-
ing been thrown out by the force of the
impact All were badly cut by flying
glass and considerably bruised. The
party came to Mount Holly on trolley
car and their injuries were dressed at the
dispensary of DIR. Pickett. Joseph
Shinn, who seemed to be badly injured,
was taken to the Burlington County
Hospital
Shortly after this occurrence there was
another collision on the Smithville road
in which three young men figured, and
their escape from serious injury was in
deed fortunate. r. w. Rogers, of Moores-
town, who is connected with the hard
ware firm of Rogers & Miller, of Phila-
delphia, had been to the fair in his Hup-
mobile. He was accompanied by J. r.
Gillian, Jr., of Mount Holly, and Robert
d. Liddle, who lives on the Powell farm
near Smithville. 1t was late in the even
ing and quite foggy when Rogers started
to take his latter friend home. On the
way out they saw a vehicle ahead of
them which, they claim, had no light,
and they thought it was travelling in the
same direction as they were Because of
the fog they were moving slowly, which
was fortunate, as Rogers had no chance
to turn out when he came face to face
with the on-coming vehicle. A wheel
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to Samuel Matthias, and the driver was
thrown out but escaped injury. The
turned turtle, and Liddle
was caught under it and pinned to the
ground, being badly bruised and suffer-
ing considerably before he could be re-
leased. Rogers had bone broken in his
hand, and received number of lacera-
tons, and Gillian escaped with few
bruises. None of thesinjuries were seri-
Gus. Matthias says he is able to prove
he had bright light on his wagon.
The third accident occurred on Friday
but no one was injured. Charles A.
Bovine, steward of the almshouse, had
his automobile wrecked along the South
Pemberton road when tire burst as he
turned out to pass wagon, and the car
turned turtle. He was accompanied by
William b. Pope, of Pemberton. Neither
was injured, having been thrown into
sand and away from the wreckage.