The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-09-06
MRS. CHARLES Roor1s al
1ous CONDITION AT HosPTrAL-
Ausoand Ana Son Meet Death SATURDAY
Wight When Automobile riass-
Bridge And Il Driven Into
Creek.

while Mrs. Charles Rogers sr.. lies
IN serious condition In the Ohio VAL
icy General hospital. the bodies OF her
iio.soiid ana son are In the Mendel I'm
49, Shi ik Farlors awaiting burial Both
MSre killed wnen their automobile
misses the bridge Just west OF Ronev's
a. oliit' ana TOPPED into Little wheeling
creek eighteen feet below
The accident in which both vvere Liti.a
and Mrs. Rogers was injured. occurred
"a uIuay night az s:22 O'Clock. Mr. Rog-
81 ssls and wife and Charles Rogers JT..
aged Two years had left the city in
their overland touring car FOR a rid.
OUT the National Road As they nearcd
ne rhree bridges, y. x O.. West VirFin-
- traction and Electric Railway and
ounty near Roneyss Point an antomo-
Dlle move ~ sight going toward Wheel
idsS1,,,I me light from this machine ev-
his car In between the county bridge 49,.
ne street car bridge. over the high con-
chSe1e wall and into the creek The ma
.uulne turned a complete somersault min
ming Its occupants beneath H.
Mubur Mttchen. who lives near the
so oehe or the accident. saw it and ran
kidgley. Nelson Ellis fcolored, 80
Niitchen; hurried down to the creek ned
ana Win considerable difficulty rolled
ne heaNy machine fiom the bodies OF
Its victims. They then ricked m NJ
and Mrs Rogers and the babv and 80
Itsu them 10 the Aftchen home abouf
iiity yards distant.
NAoN Aenoera verdict.
To this place Dr. r. X. shields D- y
- bullard and Coroner Gala Mitchell
were called The child lived about mr.
Len minutes. and the father only a few
f, ,.Seonas after the doctors arrived Mrs
hoger1 was pleced In the automobiic ~
~ shields and rushed 10 the Ohio Val
~ General Hospital. where she was
piasea under the care 81 DR.. r.. NJ. Baird
coroner Mitchell rendered A formal
verdict OF accidental death and ordered
the bodies taken 70 the MendeI f-nder-
ekinE parlors. Funeral services will be
neld there this morning az $50 o'cioct
The bodies OF father and son viii ~ -
corted 70 the T. A. %. depot BY Wheeling
S9tnmandery No. 7. knights TempIars.
nnesIe tney VIII be placed on the 9.0f
train End taken 60 Franklin. Pa
Additional funeral services will he
meld az the home % p sister-in-iaw. Mrs.
y. = bigley tomorrow afternoon al 3
CLOCK iolioWing these services inter
ment viii b. In q cemetery 40 that piare
Relatives % thu deceased who came to
,nls city yesterday are Eugene Hughes
1fgther or Mrs. Rogers: Mr. and Mrs
Robert ,. Moorehcad Mrs. Flls I.ap,be--
l.n ena X 4. Higlev. Of Franklin and
Ms. Nina Cummings. or Chicago. fH-
AZ the time Of the accident Miss
louise Rogers "a daughter. was visiting
] friends In Chicago. and Richard Roger
= son was enjoying the moving pictures
with party ~ friends both were
ignorant 81 the fate OF their father and
mother and younger brother until late
Saturday night
Mrs. Rogers Informed OF Deaths.
Miss Rogers arrived home yesterday
az i.i5 o'clock and wes completely over
come when Informed 81 Tire calamity
that had overtakcn her family Mre
| kofors was Kept in ignorance Of the fate
nf her husband and babe until Yesterday
morning Dr g. So Haird In n r.nfIr
way impaired to her the saddraf 0f
news Apparently Hnc was moved too
deeply Tor tears. but according 90 the