The Alaska daily empire., 1915-06-21
GERMANS ARE SWEEPING RUSSIANS BACK IN GAZlClA
AUT0ISTS ARE NEAR VICTIMS
 OF ACCIDENT

z. j.. Loussac and A. A. Gabbs had a miraculous escape from death at l o'clock Sunday afternoon when the formers new Ford automobile got be- yond the control of MT. Loussac, who was driving, turned sharply from the Front Street Plank road a block be- low the Enterprise Foundry, and went crashing through the railing of the street to the beach, pinning its occu- pants beneath the wreckage of the car. The machine turned three quarters sommersault. Mir. Gabbs sus- tained dislocated shoulder, and bruises. Mir. Loussac was unhurt. Had the tide been in, both men would have drowned, as 1t was three or four minutes after the machine hurled though space before they were extricated.
 The accident happened a few min utes after large crowd in Front Street had helped coax the machine to run. MT. Loussac had been learn ing to lrive, and had ran the machine up on the sidewalk in front of his drug store, where his engine stopped, having been fed with too much gaso- line While the crowd engaged in good.natured banter. Mir. Loussac and his friends toiled with the crank to try and make the engine start. IT, nally the crowd hauled the car back into the street, and pushed it ahead, and in a moment it was whirring
 Crowd Sees Accident.
 Mir. Loussac drove to the City Dock before he turned around. Mr. Gabbs got in the car at the dock and the machine started back up town. At the point where the accident occur red. Mir. Loussac endeavored to turn out little from the right side of the street. Bystanders were mortified to see the car crash through the railing. and a large crowd collected while the occupants were rescued. Mr. Gabbs was taken to St. Ann hospital by Dr. l.. o. Sloane in the latter's car and treated for his injuries. MT. Lou ssac was able to walk up town. The wrecked car was raised later in the afternoon. Damage to the extent of S25O was done The steel rods. steer ing gear and top were smashed. the shield and lights demolished, and the body Of the ear was strained consider ably. In completing It's loop, the machine wedged between two piling, breaking its descent. and probably saving the lives of its passengers. The canopy top also broke the fall of the machine. The car was travel ing about three miles an hour when it was wrecked. It fell l5 feet.
 "Foreot the Brakes"
 Mir. Loussac last night described the sensation he experienced when he went sailing into space. "I knew l wouldn't get hurt" he said. "I was confident that l wouldn't be injured, and my chief concern was about Mir. Gabbs. who was in the front seat with me When turned the ear to get in the middle of the road it jolted by the front trucks striking on the sidewalk The motion threw my hands from the steering wheel. and in a second we were on the beach. ] never thought of the emergency brake. You see am not a chauffeur; l am just learning to drive. am glad MT. Gabbs is not hurt"
 Mir. Loussac received his car Samr- day. It will be out of the repair shop this week.
 Out in front of Mir. Loussac's place of business this morning was a scare crow conveyance, erected during the night by his friends. lt consisted of an abandoned coal bin set on four mis-mated wheels. A battered m- brella served as a top and tin cans were used as lamps. It was appro- priately lettered and labeled