The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-04-06
SIX Negroes Injured When Sage Car
They Drove Crashed Over
Twenty Foot EN-
bankment.
AUTOMOBILE WRECKED
Accident Happened on the Road Be-
tween Fort Madison and Mont
rose at 1890 Last
Night.

/ Travelling at high rate OF speeu
an automobile driven by Mark john
son, chauffeur for W. H. Sage of this
| city, and occupied by five other col
ored men and women from here, ran
over high embankment at the Santa
Fe crossing on the road between
Montrose and Fort Madison at 1870
last night, turned over a number Of
times, throwing out and seriously in
ljuring all the occupants, and crashed
at the bottom of the embankment,
mass OF wreckage. The injured ne
groes were taken to Montrose where
they were given first aid medical at
tention and then brought to this city
where all are under the care Of
physicians.
The machine was occupied by
three negro men and three negro
women. The men were Mark john
son, driver of the automobile, Luther
Hardin and Gene Griffey. The names
of the women could not be learned
from any of the injured men.
Were in sage's Machine.
The machine was said to be sew
|en-passenger Packard, the property OF
w. H. Sage, employer of johnson,
who was out Of the city last night. It
was said the machine was practically
a total wreck after it had plunged
down the embankment, turning over
three or four times.
According to one of the injured
men, the cause of the accident was
not known. The machine was being
driven at high rate OF speed. he
said, when the accident happened.
The road near the Santa Fe crossing
between Fort Madison and Montrose
is narrow at the place where the ma
chine went over and is on fill about
twenty feet high, the sides OF which
are very steep.
Says All Thrown in Heap.
Luther Hardin, one Of the injured
men, said this afternoon that the ma
chine started rolling over as soon as
it left the road.
ut threw all Of us out in a heap
the first time it turned over" Hardin
said, then it kept on turning over
three or four times, till it hit the bot
tom of the bank. guess l was about
the first one to come to-al OF us
were stunned when we were thrown
out l got up and went to house
nearby where the Hardings live. They
took us in a machine to Montrose
where a doctor there fixed us UP
little bit and then we had machine
from here come out and get US"
Hardin was confined in bed at his
home, S24 Johnson street. There. was
"a big bandage around the top OF his
head that had been cut by the door
OF the machine striking him as he
was thrown .out. His right wrist was
bandaged, but he said there were no
bones broken. He was badly bruised
in a number of places and it evident
ily caused him great pain to move.
Hardin Worst Injured.
Hardin said that his injuries were
the most severe of those received by
any members Of the party. 1t was
stated that in the accident the ear OF
one of the women in the party was
almost wholly severed. She was taken
to a hospital here where an opera
ton was made by physicians this aft
ernoon in the hope of saving her ear
The injuries of the others Of the party
are said to be merely bad bruises and
sprains. Hardin said that he and the
one woman were the only ones that
were cut in the accident. This did not
agree with the report from Montrose
that the physician who attended the
Injured negroes there had taken four
teen stitches In the side and back of
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