The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-05
-Four Occupants Hurled to
the Road but Not Sc
riously Hurt
SIX OCCUPANTS
OTHER CAP >AcAPED
Both Vef -, One a Jitney,
Badly dmaged or the
Montpelier Road

Two Ford automobiles collided, head.
on near the residence of Arthur Young
on the Montpelier road at O'Clock Ia -
evening, and the four occupants of the
Montpelier bound vehicle were thrown
out as the car tipped over, while the
other ear, bound for Barre and carving
SIX persons, remained upright although
dragged around at more than right angles
TO the highway. Mrs. G. A. Waters of
Starksboro sustained bruises and cuts on
her right hand, and Charles Benedict,
aged IS, of Gouldsville, complained of
strain to his back. Mr. Waters and Mrs.
Benedict in the same car esca ped injury
except that the former got brlise on
his right knee. None OF the occupants of
the other car was injured. The cars were
numbered 1850, which is used as a iitney
and is registered in the name of Hyman
Carr of Montpelier, and 1913, registered
in the name of G. A. Waters of Starks-
boro.
The collision occurred at wide point
in the highway, with the electric car
track adjoining. After the accident each
driver insisted that he was on the right
side of the road nd was footing his horn
vigorously. Had that been the case there
would have been no reason for collision.
Neither was proceeding rapidly, so the
drivers said, the iitney going slowly be-
cause its passengers had insisted on safe
ty rather than speed and the other. as
Mr.. Waters states, because he had two
elderly people who dislkea rapid loco
motion at night time. However, the i'm
pact was sufficient to put both vehicles
out OF commission for the time being.
The litney, being the more heavily
loaded. was kept upright as the cars
locked. and the six people in it we're
hardly more than Jared Its front axle
was sprung and the mudguards were
bent The other car did not come out OF
the smash as well: nor did its four oc-
cnpants In being tipped over. it fell on
Mrs Waters and Mr.. Benedict SO that
they could not be released until the oc-
cupants of the other vehicle, with the
aid of nearby residents had set the thing
back on its wheels. A hurry call was
sent TO Barre. and two ambulances re-
sponded, together with a physician and
the police. 1t was soon learned that the
were not so badly injured as
at first thought, and Mr. md Mrs. Wa
ters and Mr.. and Mrs Benedict were
carried to the Union house in Montpe-
her where DR.. J. r. Grimes was called to
attend them. The iitney passengers. Mr.
and Mrs, ". c. Bingham of Montpelier,
Miss Edith Goodrich and Leon Seaver,
not Il pf Attliia nd bor
IN the seat with the driver continued the
rip to Barre by electric car.
Mrs. Waters is niece of Mr.. and Mrs.
Benedict and she and her husband we're
to the Benedict home in
iouldsvlle after spending the day in
3arre as the guests of relatives. During
he excitement following the crash Mr..
Waters fell over backwards while assist
ng Mr. Bingham of the other car in
arrying Mrs. Waters TO the side of the
oad but he soon recovered Within a
hort time all four passengers in the
tarksboro car were being carried to the
otel in Montpelier
The two ears. each headed in the ii
ection of Montpelier, were left on the
lde Of the road, where they had been
ushed by willing helpers, until mechan-
5 could look them over and see what
apairs would be required before they
1uld be moved The Starksboro vehicle
'oked as if it had been through hard
sage, the front axle and wheels being
ent, the mudguards iammed and glass
are shattered. The wreckage was in
oected by large number of people. who
'me by all kinds of conveyance within
remarkably short time. the rumor of
'rious accident having spread rapidly.