The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-10-08
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Mysterious Accident on Rock
Levee Road Puzzles Auto
$3.50: mebjle Men, ..s-,-.s d.

/ When, their automobile slipped side
ways. over the edge Of a eopcrete cq!-.
vert On the Rock Levee road six or
seeyen, miles south Of the Cape about S
O'Clock. last night and into a deep
stream s,Off water,.4 an unidentified
yeupg man and a woman narrowly
escaped death by ,erawling out one
side OF the, gar Jas it began to disap-
pear in the: watsr.ra3, :. =, -.
They them. my sterionsiy. abandoned
the machine leaving the lights burn.
ing.t The cal. WAS pulled out. of the Ma.
ter by motorists from the, Cape who
passedabs1 ami stofneIf Oh seeing, the
Abandoned machine. AZ: d ,.a.ai,
The man and Woman came into the
Cape in another machine and che man
/ had mechanics from the Park Auto
/ COmpary's garage start down to the
/ cuivert to recover the car. The woman:
was not seen, in the Cape. =: : 49,
1 At the garage late last night when
the car; which is virtually a new ma
chine, had been towed into the Cape.
the man 1u,ho, had driven it. declared.
that he-jwas 'foaa cIllsIo and .wasfcon
ing to Itle Cape with two sother men.
when the accident occurred. i - .
He declared that his name. was Fred
Nance and that one of Ms companions
was James Allen Both of them We're
from Illmo, he said, and his second
companion. heYsaid he. didn't know! He
didn't even know James Alien. -. ..-.
He said he had turned out for "a
horse and buggy WREN near the cul-
vert and in passing the eulvert,. the
rear right side wheel had slipped on
stone, sliding the machine: eff the
side of the bridge. ::s,.....
, He declared tatat>he and his two men
companions easily escaped s:snd made
light Of the affai1Ly1& =. ~ !.
Is HetWas soaked to,thc skim. He. adj
.anitteit, whea,.tfis:was pointed ont, that
he had been submerged, Somewhat in
I. "hI9f. .g'-9 i..@ y"til,as.;:s Y :: {.
l.: About H&haH hour after the saeei-
dent occurred, Ifanbeit Gn,p .dof. Form
felt; ,discoTAredith the abandened ,car, al
he was driving With SOME companions
from Eornfekt into the 4Gapes& They
stopped snti3eXantiaea the wreck. 80
tf' Tke machine ha6.both lights turntd
on and was gradually sinking deeper
into the mud and waders Soon an
other car arrived .sBdptfe occupants of
both. got out, and worked with thea
wrecked machine, to get it gut of the
creek, !, -,o. >.. .,,....,
TReE: finsily hauled it out When they !
fastenefs chains tesit and .htched it ito
two autemobiIes to. do the pulling. !
Cplp got down upon the ppturncd side
Of the machine AND in Fishing" about |
in the water, found a woman's coat T.
and likewise mans coat. !
: The crowd about the automobile /
grew shortly afterward. a boy who I
LIVED. a few hundred yards from the !
scene of the accident, said he saw the
machine pass by. his house. with man |,
and woman sitting in the front seat.
He said he did, not see anyone leave
the place after the machine slid off I
into thc,creek. The men who had pull
ed the car out of the creek then be-
lieved that the bodies of the occu-
pants might still be. iq, the bottom Of
the creek. -. -
They began dragging sthe creek in
search of bodies, but to no avail, and
eventually they left the car to return
to the Cape. ..l.I'
AT the garage last night it was
learned that the, machine is owned BY
a man named Kies, in Jackson, and /
that the young, man, Who gave bis
name as. Nance, is a. chauffeur for;
him, "Nanee" had driven the car over r
to the Cape last night, With the Kies
family. il was said. and had been in F.
5tructed to take the machine to the
garage till it Was called for last night.
The machine never was. reported in
he garage and the first the garage
people knew of it was when it was
'ound on the side Of the creeks bank /
where the accident had occurred. +
Nance l24St night i5 ' deRaEPtfffa s to 1
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