Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-11
MOTORISTS ESCAPE WITH
ONLY MINOR INJURIES
Two of Those Injured Near Straw.
berry Hill Released From
Hospital.
KING TELLS OF ACCIDENT
Was Unfamiliar With Road, and
Lamps Failed to Show Sharp
Curre-Party Was Pinned Be-
meath Overturned Car.


None of the four young people in
jnred early Sunday morning on tho
Second Street Road when n small tour
Ing car turned turtle burying them be-
meath IT, will suffer permanent Injury
AS n result Of the accident, according
10 the opinion expressed by physicians
at tho Johnston Willis Hospital last
night.
Marie Cannon, 1917 West Cary street.
who was moro seriously injured than
any OF the others and whose life was
thought to be In grave danger for some
TIME after she had been brought to
the hospital. regained consciousness
during the early morning. An exami-
nation made by physicians at the hos
pitai showed that she had suffered a
oislocated left shoulder and II number
OF decorations and bruises about the
limbs and body. No conclusion Of tho
brain had developed up to last night
IL IS oeheved that the girl will be able
10 icaTe the hospital in about two
weeks.
DcGRAFF ESCAPES
WITH MINOR INJURIES
L. p. DeGrafr. 3o1s Grove Avenue. es
capped with minor injuries. as was
yesterday. Ho was cut about the bodw
ana limbs, but suffered no broken
bones Physicians believe that he viii
oe aoio TO leave the hospital about tho
middle Of the week.
"averley King. owner and driver ~
inc car In which all were hurt and
"ho h'es ht Dnmbarton, r. +. d. No
early yesterday morning. He IN. cn,
aoout the race and shoulders, but su-
stained no Injuries of n serious nature
hona smith. 1925 Beverley Street
was able to go to her home. after re
seiving treatment Mt the hospital. and
aappeared 10 be but little the worse for
| her narrow escape o'
rnetpaTty is said to have been on the
way to DeGraff's country plnce nonr
Elierson. They had left Tbird 49,,
trace streets about 1880 O'clock. nc
, corning TO the story told Detectivo-
sergeant Bailey by the Smith girl and
M mr. proceeding at rather u rapid rate
the road for probably a distance 81
MY or sixty feet ahead of tho car
hinS Is said to have been unfomiIiar
win the road, and was depending en-.
tirely upon his lamps
TOOK SHARP CURVE
AT HIGH SPEED
Inc driver was on the curve at the
1901 or Strawberry Hill, about n rniio
OUTSIDE the new corporate limits. he
iore no realized it. Before he could
SWING the machine into the curve tha
wheels were grating into the-eulIv on
one hioe and tho machine WAS lurchinr
violently with no reduction of speed.
Tor hing says 1t all happened before he
couid reach his brakes. the car crossed
the gully and started up the embant-
ment on the far side of the turn.
This embankment is about six or
eight feet In height. but of rather n
gradual rise, and the machine climbed
nearly to tho crest before the incline
caused 1t to turn over. There was no
crash or explosion as the machine
lurched and turned turtle, and IL is
said that but for the fact that James
Iinsley happened to be travelling the
same road and saw the machine by the
lights of his own car, nothing wouid
nave been known of the accident until
yesterday morning. Had this been tho
case, physicians believe that Marie
Cannon would have been found dead.
and that probably ono or mope of the
others would have been smothered.
| The Cannon girl was caught directly
eneath the body OF the machine, and
the Smith girl was pinned across her
I body by the car. DeGraff was also
securely pinned beneath the wreck,
while King was caught In such n man
| ner as to allow him to extricnte him
self when he had regained conscious
! ness. All Of the occupants OF the car
were knocked senseless, but with the
exception of the Cannon girl. each re-
gained consciousness by the time they
had been taken to the hospital.