The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-09-07
Auto Accidents at Lamont.

Saturday evening about o'clock
the Gaulter and Haskins autos had
collision at the corner of Main and
Chestnut streets, with the result that
the Haskins car had front wheel de-
molished. Mr.. Haskins was coming
east on Main street and Wayne Gaul-
ter was coming north on Chestnut
and started to round the corner on
the wrong side of the traffic post.
When the drivers saw each other
they We're too close together to get in
the clear with the result that the
Haskins car had front wheel wreck
ed.
The traffic posts on the business
streets were installed by the town to
avoid as far as possible auto acct
dents. We believe that every car
driver should round these posts on
the right side. We find that by
watching the various drivers that the
most of the violators are residents of
Lamont. This should not be, if our
own drivers will not recognize these
rules how can we expect visitors and
other car drivers to watch their
STEP"
One of the worst auto accidents
happening in this vicinity took place
lastThursday night as theI. C. Hight
shoe family and a number Of neigh
bors were returning home from La
moni where they had been attending
Uncle Toms Cabin show. The party
were using the big REQ truck and
there were % people in the load.
While going up the steep hill this
|ci1 ut uio1o oh %ha wi
er attempted to shift gears and about
the same time the brakes and clutch
refused to work. The big car start
ed backing down hill and at the bot
tom ran off the bridge throwing all
tie occupants out. The worst injur-
ed was Mrs. Hightshoe who received
a deep cut in hel neck and as the
truck settled she was caught under
the running board badly injuring her
chest at this time. Mrs. Herbert
Smith had her arm broken and her
little daughter had her front teeth
knocked out and fractured jaw, It
being Necessary for a piece of Jaw
bone to be taken out. The rest of
the load received numerous bruises
and scratches. The only thing that
saved Mrs. Hightshoe's life was the
fact that there was some water in
the creek and she fell in the mud re-
lieving her body of part of the weight
of the truck. The next morning the
truck was pulled out OF the ditch and
cranked up and started out as if
there had been no accident
Last Thursday afternoon a blind
corner on the Jefferson Highway
caused bad auto accident in which
both cars were badly wrecked but
luckily none of the occupants were in
jured. M. F. Buchanan was coming to
Lamont and as he rounded the corn
er at the old Frank Young farm he
found he was within twenty feet of
car going south driven by rural
route man from Weldon. The cars
We're SO close together that neither
driver could stop but each swung
away as much as possible from the
otner. The Buchanan car hit the
Weldon car just in front of the hind
wheels and both hind wheels collap-
sed, throwing the occupants out. The
cars came together with such force
that this car was badly wrecked and
strained. The Buchanan car had the
front axle sprung and one end of the
shaft torn off. Neither driver blam-
ed the other as at this corner the
weeds are so high that you can not
see car coming from the opposite
direction until they get out into the
road.-Lamoni Chronicle.