The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-06-25

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ACCIDENTS

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Tragic Toa taken IN Sunday Lisi
Of Motor Rshesi Several /
Mao eEscapes q I'd
BOY IS run iWN BY
IL cAR NEAR PAIL
sa&aus Mart 1ts. in.
staDtlyK lachlnes Turn
Turtl4 pants Hurt
satnuel Robet oatheart, a part
Hawaiian boy, Of lKaueohe. E
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Adsiinc Kong a part hawaiian girl.
s. Shinanpotoy a Japanese youth. .3.
z vi 4 MINOR INJURIES ii
YuiS Kong. Chinese driver.
Q. Kayahara, Japanese driver. ~
X. Matsumoto, Japanese. -
One dead, two painfully injured and
three other persons painfully wound
ed or shaken up was the toll of three
SundaH automobile accidents reported
to TIL police up until dusk last night.
In two of the accidents the cars turn
ed turtle, but II was the running down
of pedestrian which caused the fatal!
ity, as the FIVE occupants Of the other
machines had escapes from death which
were nearly miraculous.
|, Samuel Robert Gathcart, a thirteen
Year-old part, Hawaiian boy, was run
down and almost instantly killed by
heavy automobile on the other side
of the Nuuanu Pail shortly after one
o CLOCK in the afternoon. The car,
which is used as a stage between Homo
lulu and Laie, was driven by young
Japanese named Honda, who was ar.
rested by Deputy Sheriff R. W. Davis,
and afterwards booked at the Honolu.
lu police station. BE-. .,e. !.
p. The fatal accident happened between
the Pail and Kaneohe, near the lane
leading to DR.. ]. s. B. Pratt's home
on the other side of the island. .j.. =.
Tho police say that young Cathcart
was walking towards his home at
Kaneohe when he was run down by
the ear ID.
Instantly Killed
The ear was going in the same direc.
| ton and struck him with the right
fender, the car then passing over the
boy's body. The injuries consisted Of
fractured skull, broken left leg and
broken right arm. The boy died almost
Immediately after the 2000slb. auto
mobile stage passed over his body. =.
The police were told by those aboard
truck which passed the boy q few
moments before the accident that Cath.
cart was walking near the grass on the
makai side of the road. They learned
of the accident through the cries of the
passengers in the stage coach, when
ithey we're fully half "a block from
where the boy was hit. At the time Of
1.-THE accident there were six adult pas.
sengers, boy and the driver in the
automobile stage. 49,. .r 40
| Yong Cathcart was the SOD of Abel
X. Cathcart, the school teacher at Ka,
neOhe. His body was brought to the
city morgue by Sheriff Charles Rose
who went over the Pail to investigate
Deputy Sheriff Davis, who examined
the Witnesses of the killing of the boy
1 SAYS the car went from thirty to forty
feet before it could be stopped after
! the accident. The right fender was
bent clear into the right tire by the
collision with the boy 3 body and had
to be Strengthened out before the ca
could be operated, the deputy sheriff
SAYS.
Auto Turns Turtle
The first Sunday automobile accident
happened at the second curve on Red
| Hill yesterday morning, when an 4au
tomobile driven by Yui Kong turned
over. Two police officers, who were
Just ahead of the Kong car, say thi.
was caused by the driver losing con
troll of the steering wheel.
Adeline Kong, a fifteen year old part
Hawaiian girl, who was riding in tn,
car at the time, received a painful
abrasion Of her right wrist, but thf
driver escaped with no other injury
than a bad Earring and fright.
Ford Somersaults
An accident very similar happened
n Manoa Valley about four O'Clock
n the afternoon, when a Ford in which
'hree Japanese were riding turned Over
twice before it stopped rolling. >.
s. Shimamoto, an eighteen. year ole
japanese, was the only one Of the three
passengers hurt badly. He received Al
ncised scalp wound, which required
4 three stitches to sew up, and o wounf
n the temple in which one stitch wal
taken. IL!
| e. Eayahara, driver of the Japan
csc car, told the police he was going
| y n hill in ManOa Valley when thu
engine stopped. The ear began to roll
backwards and in his attempt to steel
it, he ran the car up on the side of (
bank and it upset. II it had not turnet
over the second time Kayahara think
he aud his companions would have beer
killed, as they were pinned beneath Il
for a short time. y,
The third passenger in this car wa
X. Matsumoto. He, like the driver, es
capped all injury except some minOl
scratches and shock.
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