Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-01
NORWICH GIRLS CONDITION
 REMAINS UNCHANGED.
Examination Shows That Grace Shea Received Fracture of Skull in Auto Accident.

Accident.
 At o'clock this (Thursdayl morn ing the condition of Miss Grace Shea and Miss Emma Wiedwald of this city remained unchanged at the Mem orial hospital at New London. They were injured in the collision between a trolley car and an automobile in New London late Tuesday night.
 The accident happened at 11.50 on Tuesday night, just north of Richards stref The trolley car was making it's t trip to New London from Will linn tic and Norwich and was little late, the car being due at the parade at 11.45. It was in charge of Conduc- tor George Whittlesey and Motorman Forest c. Bennett, both of New Lon don.
 After the car had passed Crystal avenue on it's way down Main street, Motornaan Bennett was given a sig nal by the conductor to stop at Rich ards street and had already applied the air to the brakes for the stop when the ac@ident occurred.
 The automobile, Ford tourning car with the four Willimantic men and two Norwich girls was going up Main street with Silverman driving. The machine was on the wrong side of 1 the street and on the car track when the driver saw the trolley car bear 1 ing down upon the machine and in endeayoring to turn off the tracks to | tn right hand side of the road, the
 rear wheels of the car got caught in l the track asd skidded sideways. l The automobile crashed against the car with it's left side with great force almost to a complete standstill. Mo- l although the car had been brought l torman Bennett had seen the automo-
 bile approaching and he expected that i the machine would turn out of the way without any difficulty. When the machine Skidded, however it was SC 1 near upon the trolley that a collision could not possibly be averted.
 All the oceupasts of the machint 1 were thrown out by the force of thu collision, Miss Shea being hurled {
 distance of about 20 feet against ; I billboard on the far side of the side
 walk, and Silverman landed agains the curbing. The others were no
 thrown any great distance.
 Examinations showed that Mis-
 Shea has received a fracture of tn internal injuries the exact nature o !. which cannot be determined as ye ] and that Levin has suffered a frac
 ture of the skull, while Cohen am
 Rothblatt's injuries were not so seri
 ous, the latter having fracture o
 the jaw and all the victims havinI
 contusions and decorations about tn head.
 Cohen was the least injured of tn six, his most serious injury being
 severe laceration over the left ey
 which was closed with two or thre stitches. He left the hospital o Wednesday morning.
 The four men hired the machine i Willimantic from H. J. Blanchard fo the days outing and went to Nev London. 1t is understood that tn
 two girls who had been in New Lon
 don had missed the last trolley fo ] Norwich, being under the impressio 3 that it left the parade at 1145 an } had accepted an invitation to b f brought to Norwich in the machine ,i The machine was badly wrecked
 the left side being smashed by the i'm
 pact At first it was thought that th : automobile had struck the trolle head on but the radiator is intat showing that the machine skidded an struck the car sideways. The fror windows of the trolley car we1 i: smashed and the headlight damage, I Medical Examiner Harry M Le
 conducted an investigation into th \ 1 circumstances of the collision earl z l Wednesday morning and he exonel < ates MotOrman Bennett from an
 blame for the accident. Coront . Franklin IT. Brown also interviewe 2 the trolley crew in Norwich Wednes 2 day morning and learned the circun
 stances of the accident.