The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1915-07-08
FORD GAR
GOES OVER
HILL AND
LANDS IN
TREE TOP
DRIVER LOSES CONTROL WHEN
WHEEL HITS BOULDER. AND
CAR AND PASSENGERS ARE
HURLED OVER BANK.
OCCUPANTS OF CAR UAINJURED

Many remarkable jests and stories
are told of the vitality and Prov
ess of the Ford automobiles. but one
of the most notable achievements of
these machines is related by d. E.
Gibson of this city. which he vouches
for as being absolutely true.
Mr.. Gibson was motoring home from
the Pines in the Wet Mountain valley
last Sunday and on reaching the site
of Sunset City on the Copper Gulch
road, saw party of eastern tour
lists endeavoring to pull Ford car
up steep embankment to the road
way from which it had plunged lit
tie while before. On making inquiry
of what had happened Mr. Gibson was
told that in. trying to negotiate
sharp turn in the road at that point
the driver of the car had run against
small boulder and that the steer
ing wheel had been suddenly jerked
from the hand Of the driver and that
machine and passengers had been
hurled with great force over the
bank. The contents OF the car, of
which there was about half ton,
had been scattered in every direction.
but, fortunately. without hurting any
body. When the amazed and fright
ened passengers found themselves at
! the bottom of the grade, twenty feet
below the roadway, and had taken a
hasty invoice of affairs and ascer-
tanned that none of the party had
/ been killed. they began to look about
for their machine. which was discov-
cred hanging upside down ON the
limbs of big pine tree. twelve or
fifteen feet above thep ground. An
axe had been included in the party's
camping equipment and it did not
take long to cut the branches Of the
tree and release the car which was
let down without disastrous results
by the employment of an ingenious
system of skids and props.
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the machine at the foot of the tree
a rancher came along with team OF
I horses and was engaged to help get
1t back on the road. which at that
particular place was a ledge cut out
of the side OF the mountain and
used for highway purposes. BY at
taching a hawser to the front axle
Of the car and fastening the end to
a. pair OF double trees. the horses,
assisted by the pushing power Of the
men. managed after considerable diff
ficulty in getting the machine back
on the road. The car was a little
SCARED and battered by its adventure
but its working capacity was not in
the least diminished by It. The camp
luggage was loaded into 1t. and, af-
ter the members Of the party had
made a search Of the surroundings
to see II they had lost any of their
belongings when they were SO uncere-
moniously dumped over the cliff. all
got into the car and drove on as II
nothing had happened. The motor
was not in the least injured by the
plunge and the car responded prompt
ly to the demands OF the driver as
II new.
The tree In which the car lodged
IL the only one Of any size along that
portion of the road fer several miles
and that 1t should have caught the
car and prevented It from being DASH
ed to pieces is not the least marvel
lous feature Of the occurrence. There
were four people in the party, but
Mr.. Gibson did not learn their names
! or where they lived. They left for
the west satisfied with the old adage
that 'all's well that ends WE'LL"