The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-08-04
coLLIDED ON BRIDGE.
Automobile Rode Up On Stone Team and
Struck V. II. Tomlinson.

An automobile and stone team collided
on the Honey brook bridge between
Barre and East Barre Saturday, the su-
tomobile riding up on the team and the
rail of the bridge and striking Verne H.
Tomlinson, a road patrolman, who was
sitting on the wagon, also throwing Miss
Muriel Beattie, an occupant of the auto
mobile, out of the car and six feet down
to the bed OF the brook, where she landed
in water and was not injured except for
a severe shaking up. Mr.. Tomlinson re-
ceived a bad Iaceration on his left leg
and had his right foot jammed severely.
The automobile was prevented from GO
ing off the edge of the embankment by a
pipe guard rail and by the rail of the
bridge.
The automobile, driven by Robert
Wilder of Montpelier, was not badly
damaged, one bent mudguard being prae-
tically the only damage There were six
people in the automobile, three young
ladies' and three young men, and they
were proceeding in the direction of East
Barre, while the stone team was travel
ing in the opposite direction.
The bridge on which the vehicles met
is located at a bend in the road and
where at least one other ear has had
trouble recently II Is dangerous place,
and the danger heightened by overhang-
ing limbs, the shadows of which hinder
vision from either approach. Mr. Tom
linson states that he and the driver of
the team, Ralph Johnson recognizing the
spot as one Of considerable hazard, looked
sharply before they drove their team
onto the bridge, and just as they were
on the bridge they saw the ear approach
ing. Mr.. Tomlinson shouted warning
to the driver, who turned his horses to
the right but could not get the wagon
off the bridge before the automobile
struck.
Mr.. Wilder says that he iammed on
the brakes as soon as he saw the danger
but that the brakes did not seem to OPP
crate satisfactorily, while at the same
time he swung the car as sharply to the
right as the roadway would permit
That he made an effort to clear the team
was indicated by the wheel track on the
very brink of the little embankment
where pipe guard rail was bent out of
shape by the impact After avoiding an
overturn, the ear climbed the rail of the
bridge and wagon, striking Mr.. Tomlin-
son, who had no time to get out of the
way.
The tangle of the automobile and wag-
on was cleared and Mr.. Tomlinson was
taken to the side of the road while Miss
Beattie. was helped out of Honey brook.
An ambulance call was sent to this city,
but the ambulance was not needed, as
after a time Miss Beattie was able to
rejoin her companions in riding back to
this city in the same automobile, while
Mr. Tominson was carried by automo-
bile to his home in East Barre. He suf
fered considerable pain but the physician
who was summoned did not think any
bones were broken, the foot having swol-
len tspsuch an extent that it was impos-
sible to determine accurately at that
time Miss Beattie, whose home is in
Enosburg Falls, was visiting in Barre
The others in the automobile are said
to have been Miss Adelaide Teachout of
Montpelier, Miss Mcleod of Barre and
Robert Hoadley and Douald Staples of
Montpelier.
Measurements taken after the accident
showed that the Honey brook bridge is
wide enough for two vehicles to pass but
not much more than that