The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-11-10
Man Is KILLED
AS CAR UPSETS
At CLOVER HILL
Deane Ware, Jackson Farmer
Has Neck Broken Under
Overturned Car.
3 OTHERS INJURED, ONE
MAY BE FATALLY HURT
Ruddle Adams Drove Car Of
Road Down Steep Ditch
/ on Way to Dance.

three were iniured, one possibly fatal
ly, shortly before 8 o'clock last nigh
when an automobile plunged over al
embankment on the Green Ferry roaC
near the Clover Hill schoolhouse, foul
miles northeast Of Jackson. AS the
car went over the edge Of the road, i;
turned turtle at the bottom of the
ditch.
The dead man is Deane Ware, {;
farmer living near Jackson, and a man
between - and 40 years old. He was
pinioncd beneath The overturned ma
chine and his neck vas broken, causing
his Immediate death.
The injured are: Ruddle Adams, PO-
cahontas, cuts, bruises. scratches over
entire body, and internal injuries,
serious.
jim Ware. living near jackson,
nephew of dead man, internal injuries.
critical and possibly fatal.
Clarence Althenthal, Jackson, clothes
torn virtually from body, face cut, one
ear cut almost off and left arm badly
injured.
A young man named Alternately,
who was in the car, was thrown free
of the machine as it went over the
edge of the ditch, and escaped injury
News of the accident did not reach
jackson for nearly an hour after the
accident, when the uninjured members
Of the auto party walked back to town
for aid.
Coroner +. r. Schoen was summoned
from his home at Gordonville to go to
the scene of the accident, draw a jury
and have the body viewed on the
ground where the accident occurred.
Late last night the body had not been
moved from the scene of the accident.
Early this morning, after Coroner
Schoen had arrived at the place where
the accident occurred, the body was
taken to a Jackson undertaker'S par
lOrs.
The accident occurred while the men
were riding down hill. Ruddle
Adams, owner OF the machine was
driving, ard the car. according to the
statement of members Of the party,
was going at fast rate of speed.
The men were on the way to a dance
that was held last night at the Brick
Schoolhousc about four miles out Of
jackson on the Green Ferry road.
As the car got part OF the way down
the hill, ii got beyond control of Adams
after swerving off the road, plunged
over the crown into ditch.
At the foot Of the ditch was a barbed
wire fence. Althcnthal, who had much
of his clothing torn from his body and
sustained cuts about the head and
body, was shot out Of the machine like
out Of a catapaUlt.
His body was sent through the wire
fence which caused the injuries that
he received. Alternately was thrown
entirely clear Of the car and fence, so
that he escaped injury.
Adams was caught under the ma
chine with the steering wheel driven
into his breast, causing internal in
iuries that he sustained and Jim Ware
was caught under the car in a manner
that caused internal injuries.
The man who was killed is married
and has two children. The wife WAS
Frustrated last night when she WAS
notified of her husbands death.
When Alternately and Althenthal re-
covered from the shock OF the accident,
they attempted to haul the car off of |
the bodies of the three members Of the |
party buried beneath it. They sue
ceeded in liberating Adams and jim
Ware and when they got the body OF |
Deane Ware out, they found that he
was dead.
They then set out to summon aid |
from Jackson for their companions and |
get medical attention for Althenthal's |
injuries.