The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-04-28
Fire Chief Gladding and
Game Warden Charles
Keith InjU
FORMER r. SEIVED
A ] = FRACTURE
He Was Taken to Hospital
and Keith Was Removed
to His Home

| The first serious automobile accident
of the season occurred Just south of the
South Main street bridge this afternoon
around | o'clock when a car owned and
driven by Game Warden Charles Keith
of North Seminary street turned over,
pinning Fire Chief G. B. Gladding under
the machine and injuring both men, se-
riously. Chief Gladding was hurried to
the City hospital in an ambulance, cur
sorry examination having disclosed a frac-
tme Of the .~sc. left limb at the thigh
and serious abrasions on the scalp. Game
Warden Keith was taken to his home,
where physicians treated him for injur-
les in the back.
just what caused the accident is
matter for speculation. The game war
den and Chief Gladding, in the formers
Ford touring car, started soon after din
ner for the Williamstown road, where
they planned to scatter fish fry in the
brook. Passersby noticed the driver
stopping to adjust his car near the South
Main street bridge. moment after
ward, the machine gathering speed for
the sharp ascent of Jockey Hollow hill,
struck the Barre & Chelsea railroad sud-
denly where it swings into the highway
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to the left of the road Apparently Mr.,
Keith was attempting to guide the car
away from the high bank which skirts
the road on the easterly side. At any
rate the car veered again toward the
sidewalk on the right and finally turned
over in the gutter People who hurried
to the assistance of the men found Chief
Gladding lying helpless under the car.
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and others lifted the car while the chief
was lifted from his precarious position.
DIR. w. u. Lazell was summoned and
a rush call was sent in for an ambu-
lance. Chief Gladding retained conscious
ness, although somewhat dazed. Mr..
Keith seemingly did not realize the se-
rious nature Of his injuries until several
after the accident occurred. He
suffered considerably and was finally per-
suaded TO enter w. G. Reynolds car and
be driven to his home Wounds on Chief
head were caused, it is
thought, when the car settled into the
gutter, thereby pinning him under the
body of the machine. He was bleeding
and the trip to the hospital
was not undertaken until the wounds
lad been bound. At the hospital the
DtiiL JlieIlIebINes TO LHe TASK OF
the leg fracture. Physicians
who attended the men said it was too
,arly to determine whether they had sus-
aimed internal injuries.
Comparatively little damage was done
o the ear. sThe windshield was shat
cred and parts of the metal body were
,adly jammed. Garage men who arrived
IN the scene later in the afternoon we're
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i've radius rods Others who had driven
o Jockey Hollow in autos looked at the
Machine and said that other parts of the
teering gear might have been respon-
ible for the turnover There was
cry general impression, however, that
he rough condition of the railroad cross
lg and the highway at the point where
he rails shoot across the road may have
effected the movement of the car in such
manRer as to make it impossible for
he driver to control the steering gear.