Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-27
CAPTAIN AND MRS. WRIGHT
IN AU TO M 0 BILE CRASH
Their Machine Collides With Street
Car ut Meadow and Broad
Streets.
MRS. wRIGHT's ARM is BROKEN
Both Are Hurried to Hospitals,
Where Their Condition Is Report
cd as Favorable This Morning.
Blame Is Not Yet Fixed.

Captain Luther Wright and his wife.
of Ginter Park. narrowly escaped so
rious injury about $40 o'clock ycster-
day afternoon. at Meadow and Broad
streets. when their automobile COL
lidcd with Broad and Twcnty-nfth
Street car No. 53o
Mrs. Wright. IL was feared last night
at St Elizabeth Hospital. suffered q
fracture OF the left arm and suffered
severely from shock.
Captain Wright. "A railroad contrac-
tor also suffered. principally from
shock. but It was feared at Stuart Cir
Gle Hospital where he is patient.
that he may possibly have suffered
some internal injury.
Tho chauffeur. Elgln Turner. colorcd.
was not injured but was badly fright
cned. Tho automobile was damaged
TO some extent. but was able to leave
tho scene OF the accident under it's
own power. The street car was not
damaged. nor was any OF It's passen-
gers injured.
Captain and Mrs. Wright were on
their way to tho funeral OF w. J. Kim
brouGh in their automobile when the
accident occurred. They had come IN
from G!nter Park by the Hermitage
Road. turning across town at Broad
street with tho intention of proceed
! Ing south on Meadow Street.
WAS ABOUT TO STOP
Turner. the chauffeur. Is said to have
been but recently employed BY Can
tain Wright and is thought to have
lost his head. The Broad and lwcn-
ty-hfth street car was coming east
along Broad street about the time the
Wright machine started across tho
street. Turner was so confused that
he was unable to give any absorption
"a h n fnf. of
said that he evidently thought tho
electric car was about to stop at the
crossing and that 10 cndeavorcd TO
cross the street ahcad OF IL.
Motorman Martin Moore. however,
only slackencd the speed OF his car for
the crossing and continued down
Broad Street. The Wright automobile
continued along Meadow Street The
cars collidcd with u crash that was
heard for some distance. The heavy
Overland machine ala not turn over,
but the shock OF the impact hurled
It's occupants from their seats.
All were dazed for some time after
the accident Friends appeared in a
few minutes and proffered their as
or, took Mrs. Wright into his car and
rushed her to st. Elizabeth Hospital
without loss of time. Captain Wright
was able to walk about. but appeared
so dazed as to be unable to recognize
friends or to tell anything OF the ac-
cidcnt. Ambulance Surgeon DogGett
treated him Mt the scene before a
friend conveyed him to his house on
West Grace Street and later took him
to Stuart Circle Hospital.
Turner was not injured and with C.
w. Throckmorton, a son-!n law OF Cap
tain Wright. and several of his friends
was able to drive off In the Wright
car. He refused to give representatives
OF the Virginia Railway and Power
Company his name. but It was ascer-
tanned later by the police.
ACCOUNTS OF ACCIDENT
ARE VERY CONFLICTING
Captain Wright was reported as not
being in n condition to discuss the af-
fair last night and Detective Sergeant
Krengel was refused permission to talk
with him at the hospital.
From the meager and conflicting re-
ports OF the accident which were as
semblcd last night 1t was impossible
| to determine definitely whether the au
tomobile struck the electric car or
whether the car ran into the automo-
bile.
Early this morning it was reported
from the hospitals that neither Cap
tain nor Mrs Wright had developed
symptoms OF n serious nature and that
it was thought Captain Wright. mt
least, would be able to leave the hos