El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-11-03
SIX ARE INJURED
IN AUTO ACCIDENT.
Car Colides With Telephone
Pole Tuesday Morning;
a Ford Also Hit.

Six persons were injured in an auto
I mobile accident which occurred near
/ Stanton and Fourth street early Tues
| day morning when a touring car col
: Hded with a telephone pole.
| In the automobile were Misses Ida,
! Mary and Henrietta Marleau, OF 1901
/ wyoming street. according to Miss
Z Mary Raw. cousin Of the three sisters,
] who was also in the accident ALFONSO
{ Garcia was also a passenger IN the car,
| she says, which was driven by a man
Q whose name she does not know and
I boy who was riding with the driver
{ These two have not been located and
Z 1t is not known now bao4y tney Were
! injured, although Miss Kay says tnat the
/ drivers companion was thrown through
{ the wind shield and his mead and face
{ cut The police say the Doy VINO was
cut BY the wind shield is Jose AlvereZ-
I The three men went to Juarez soon al
I ter the accident. they say, and their
/ condition is not known
None Seriously Injured.
According to Miss Ray. Miss Ida Mar
lean was bruised and suffered a nerv-
Gus shock but was not seriously in
jured. Miss Mary Marleau tainted and
may have a broken rib, the doctor says;
Miss Henrietta Marleau suffered from
a bruised knee and was also bruised on
the body. Miss Ray says she tainted
when the accident occurred and was
thrown from the rear TO the 'front.' seat,
but was not injured and was able 10
be down town Tuesday. She says that
the drivers companion was the most
glass in the wind shield.
I'VE had obtained a car on the Jua-
rez stand Miss Ray said Of the acct
dent We were driving north on Stan
ton street at a rate OF speed which was
faster than IL should have been We
saw a car coming toward US and the
driver turned out The car went from
one side OF the street to the other, and /
finally crashed into a telephone pole Z
on the curb near Fourth street inter
section Of stanton was rendered IN |
conscious for a few minutes and when |
I recovered i was in the front seat, /
having been thrown there by the force |
of the collision We were taken TO HO-
tel Dieu and I went TO my home at /
sins Tuesday morning and they are not /
seriously injured and viii leave the i
hospital this evening"
Police Called.
According to Lon Garner, night cap
tain Of police, he was notified Of the /
accident a few minutes after 1t Oc-
CURED ana he dispatched officers to the 1
scene where the three Marleau sisters /
were found lying unconscious on the !
sidewalk. They were sent to the Hotel i
Dieu in ambulance
The machine was badly wrecked and /
is being held by the police until the (
driver Of the car calls at the police l
station to make statement regarding
the accident
J. H Graham's Ford automobile was
struck brOadside by a touring car at
the intersection OF san Francisco and
FL Paso streets Monday night at 10
o'clock Mr.. Graham was driving Misses
L. Smith and X Walsh TO the station
when the touring car, carrying No 5Sl. |
collided with the Ford and broke the
left rear axle, smashed the wind shield
and marred the finish on the left side
Of the car. Mr. Graham SAYS that the
driver OF the car gave him card with 3
the name of Walter c. Williams on fl,
and Mr.. Graham says that he owns q
public car. The Ford was rot over
turned by the force Of the collision and
no one was injured
Hail Car in Explosion.
A gasoline tank exploded In White Z
touring car owned by Norwood Hail.
Monday afternoon but the fire was put
lut before much damage had been done {
The machine was stabbed at the garage I
lf the Hotel Taxi and Auto company.
The alarm was turned In and the fire
department responded but employees OF
The garage had put the fire out before Z
The apparatus arrived