The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-23

Fred Thomas of Aldenville, near
Chicopee Falls, Mass, a motorman in
the employ of the Springfield Street
Railway company, died in Memorial
hospital at 1.40 O'Clock this after
noon of a depressed fracture of the
skull back of the right ear and Arthur
Gardner of Carew Street place, Spring
field. Mass, head hneman Of the same
company. Is in a serious condition In
the same hospital with conclusion of
the brain and possible fracture of his
skull. as the result of the automobile
accident briefly reported in yesterday S
Reformey.
These injuries followed the action of
the men in jumping from the machine
in which they were riding to the Brat
tleboro fair just before noon yesterday
ON the Guilford road Just north of the
slate rock district II. E, Wright of
| Il Spring street, West Springfield.
| Mass, and a fourth man of the party
| whose name is unknown to Wright.
were uniniured. They did not Jump
| Wright says that he stopped his ear
when tho tire on the left rear wheel
went fat and he felt the jar. The next
instant Thomas. who was seated on the
]
| goes Gardner and stood up and
leaped, Gardner having previously done
so. Both men landed on their heads in
the hard road The ear did not leave
the road or overturn and had the men
kept their seats they would have been
uniniured.
According to Wright. when seen by
a Reformer representative late yester-
day afternoon. he had been engaged
by Thomas TO carry a party of three
from Springfield to the BrattleborC
fair. He was driving Il Maxwell five
passenger car owned by his mother
Mrs. Ida l.. Wright of West Spring
field. The car had been used in iit
ney service in Springfield and was
driven daily by Wright.
It was immediately evident that botl
Gardner and Thomas were seriously in
jured. A passing car was driven i'm
Imediately to Mosher S garage wher'
word OF the accident and request fo1
the ambulance and physicians was left
Meantime B. J. Michelman and family
, of Greenfield, Mass, also on their wa.
{ to the fair, came upon the scene of the
) accident and Wright asked that the,
bring Thomas, who was apparentl,
the wOst injured, to the hospital anC
aid to Gardner.
\ few minutes later DR.. William J
J Powers of Holyoke, Mass, and 4. /
Lloyd of Northampton, Mass, witt
their wives, reached the scene and the.
t picked up Gardner and brought him t
the hospital, leaving the fourth maj
to watch the machine. What beeam
of him is a mystery for when the frs
of those who hurried from Brattlebor
: Ito the scene reached there he was miss
t ing. He was not injured.
5 DR.. Powers, not knowing the loca
I tion of the hospital drove down tow
e lbefore Special Officer George ". Bale
directed him to the institution. In tn
meantime the ambulance had been head
!; ed off and did not make the useles
q journey to the scene of the accident.
DIR. Harry p Greene, DIR. G. r. Aldric
i and Dir. G. S. Pratt were at the hOsplta
4 by the time Gardner had been brough
in. They did what could be done fo
I both men and DR.. Greene worked owe
! Thomas nearly all night.
Mrs. Gardner reached Brattlebor
last evening and went Immediately I
:. the hospital, but it was not until tn
= morning that Gardner recovered COZ
! ! sciousness sufficiently to recognize he
At 2 clock this morning Louis I
. LaFrance of 2SS Maple street, Holyok
:. Mass. a contractor, reached the no
! pital. He said that he was a brother-i1
Z law of Thomas and ordered that ever.
= thing possible be done for him.
Within a few minutes after the me
had been brought to the hospital
Reformer representative was at Il
scene of the accident. The ear WI
IL standing at the side of the road wi
the left rear axle broken off. The 6
had no marks on it as would have bee
he the case had it overturned. The MAJ
nd in the highway where the broken ak
er first struck was not over so feet fro
!where the car stopped and experts sa