The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-10-11
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Robt. Van Deusen Of Denver. for
merry secretary Of the state Demo
cratic Central committee and now
connected with the attorney generals
office as special Inheritance tax ap-
praiser. is being treated in the hos
pitai here for injuries received in an
automobile accident while motoring
from Salida TO Canon City about five
o'clock Monday afternoon. Mr. Van
Deusen in company with man by the
name of w, A Anderson Of Gunnison,
whom he picked up on the road. were
hurled over a sts-ep embankrnen, near
Spikebuck. fifteen or eighteen miles
west OF here when their machine be-
came unmanageabie. and were both
more or less seriously hurt. They
were running NJ about twenty miles
an hour when something became
wrong with the steering gear and the
car suddenly veerec to the left and
plunged over The edge Of the highway
and rolled down the mountain side
for a distance of thirty or forty feet.
10 time was given the men to jump
before the machine left the roadway
and they were dumped out with great
5orce as Il rolled over which IL did
several times in making the descent.
Mr.. Van Deusen struck a big rock
with his chest about naif way down
he slope and was rendered uncon-
sctous for n few minutes in conse-
duence. Three of his ribs were brok-
q and he received other wounds: the
most serious being 4 number of ugly
looking cuts and bruises on the right
side OF the face.
Anderson escaped more easily and
got of with a sprained left arm and
something Ike a thousand cactus
spines in bis body. He says he would
have been instantly killed had not n
big pine tree saved him from going
20 tue bottom OF the hiH.
When the two men had sufficiently
recovered from the shock to which
they had been subjected they made
their way down to the Arkansas river
and bathcd their wounds. Later they
started TO walk TO Canon City. but had
pfocecdcd only n couple OF miles when
an automobile came along and they
we're brot TO town and taken TO the
hospital where they were given pro
fassional attention Anderson left on
Rio Grande train No. 10 this morning
COR Pueblo.
Mr.. Van pcusen. who will be re
Mcmbcred by many local people as
having married Mrs. katherine Bell.
Fho a, one time published the Canon
'ity Cannon Mr.. and Mrs. Van Deu-
sen had been over on the western
,lope for three or four weeks on a
combined business and pleasure visit
and The latter was on his way back to
Denver when the accident happened.
Mrs. Van Deusen. who returned TO
lftnNsI ps ualu rhNtrn 1dtS aAt.
xas informed Monday nigh; by tele-
phone of her husbands injuries and
viii arrive here this evening 10 nurse
him back to health His condition is
not alarming and h IL probable that
he Will be auie 10 scsve the hospital
in the course of few days. In the
course Of conversation with the
writer this morning Mr.. Van peuscn
said that he cannot understand how,
e went thru Monday afternoons ex-
perience and survive to relate the cir
-amstances of the mishap.
The machine he was driving. a
Ford. landed bottom side up at the
foot of the grade, thirty.hve feet below
he roadway. II was badly wrecked in
the descent. II was brot to Canon
,i,y today for repairs.