Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1915-08-12
THURSDAY, AUGUST IL, 1915.

HuIOInOUIIe ACClu6IIlS.
Unusual Number OF Mishaps
During Past Week.
Nine persons were injured, one proba-
bly, fatally, in automobile accidents on
the mountain roads in the northwestern
section of the State Saturday and one
Hagerstown man was injured while driv-
ing in Virginia.
One collision occurred Saturday after
noon between two five-passenger auto
mobiles on the road between Boonsboro
and Nicodemus woods, where large pic
mic was being held.
Russell and Raymond House, sons OF
George House of Frederick county, and
the Misses Leonora and Ruth Hightman
Of Rohrersvile, occupying one car, were
injured, while the machine of George
Mullendore, of near Gapland, occupied
by himself and six children, turned turtle,
plunged down a five-foot embankment,
caught fire and was completely destroyed.
The occupants of the Mullendore car
were pinned beneath it, but they escaped
serious injury. After they were taken
from under the machine the gasoline ig-
nited and the tank exploded.
The House car was hurled from the
road into telephone pole and badly
damaged. The Misses Hightman were
cut by flying glass from the broken wind
shield.
All the parties were enroute to the
picnic. Mullendorc lost control of his
car, the steering gear becoming disar.
ranged and the two automobiles came to-
gether with terrific impact.
Two persons were severely injured,
one probably fatally, when an automo-
bile skidded on the State road at the foot
of Fairview mountain, near Clearspring,
Saturday morning and crashed into tel
ephone pole. The machine was complete
ly wrecked.
Three persons were injured and two
automobiles were badly damaged when
cars owned by T. M. Main, of Knoxville,
and Louis Halter, of Frederick, crashed
together at curve on the mountain Sat-
urday, just south of Braddock Springs.
A car belonging to Harry Zimmerman,
of Braddock, following closely, ran into
the wreckage and sustained broken
light.
George R. Packet. Jr., of Hagers-
town, was badly injured Saturday after
noon near Gordonsville, Va, when the
automobile of M. Miller, of Richmond.
Va, plunged over steep embankment
and turned turtle.
George Mosburg, Waterman at the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad crossing
near Lime Kiln, was struck Saturday by
an automobile driven by Albert Ballang-
er, of Dickerson, and badly injured. The
Waterman waved to the occupants of
the automobile, but the signal was either
not seen or disregarded and the car took
the the track just ahead of the train. In
an effort to keep from being struck by
the train the driver turned the machine
sharply and it struck Mosburg and ran
down an embankment.
Two killed and two injured, one proba
bly, fatally, marked the initial 3OO-mile
automobile derby on the new mile speed
way at Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday
afternoon. Ralph De Palma was win
ner, Ralph Milford second and Eddie
O'Donnell third. The time was 3. g. 81.
Joe Cooper was killed on the thirty
eighth lap of the race when his car lit
orally sailed over the outer edge of the
bowl as he was nearing the grandstand
and fell outside with Cooper and his
mechanician, Louis Piel, pinned beneath
the wreckage.
Morris S. Keller, mechanician to Billy
Chandler, died at hospital Saturday
night.
The accident to Keller came near the
close of the race when in the two hum
dred and thirty-eighth lap Billy Chand-
ler's car crashed against the inside rail
almost opposite the point where Cooper
had met his death. Chandler had less
than an even chance for recovery. ac-
cording to the physicians. Piel victim
of the first accident, was reported to be
in critical condition with better pros
poets than the others.