Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-26

Another distressing automobile acct
| dent at the corner of Main street and
Second avenue, shortly before s:3o
Saturday evening. resulting in injury
to three persons and the narrow es-
cape from injury or death of several
others. forcibly impressed hundreds
of persons on the street. who were
witnesses, with the necessity for more
drastic traffic regulations and their
strict enforcement.
A large touring car driven by Miss
Virgil Haynes. aged Is, daughter oi
Mr.. and Mrs. w. 8. Haynes, OF south of
| the city. ran amuck when the girl.
| said to be an inexperienced driver, at
| tempted to turn into North Second
| avenue from Main street. Miss Haynes
lost control of the car, which shot to
| the northwest corner of the street
pIowed it's way thru q crowd of pedes-
TRANS, and continued on a northward
course down the Second avenue side
walk for distance Of fifty feet. The
injured are:
Gretchen Hines. aged IS. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Hines, of Montour.
double fracture Of the lower jaw bone
and dislocation.
Mrs. Floyd Hines, of Montour, bone
in right forearm broken.
George A. Lindgren, sos Bromley
| street hand cut
Others were thrown out of the way
by the bumper of the car and one or
| two persons were bruised in the
m h1a a the nnrnrninp =
chine.
Injured Girl Cripple.
The case of Miss Hines is particu-
| larly sad because of the girls crippled
condition. Several years ago she suf-
fered from infantile paralysis. which
| left her lame. Because OF this condi-
ton she was unable to get out of the
way as quickly as the more fortunate
ones in the path of the car.
Miss Hines was knocked down and
rolled over and over under the car be-
ing dragged along on the parking and
sidewalk. Mrs. Hines, who made an
effort to save her daughter, was
knocked down but escaped being run
| over.
Lindgren's hand was cut and bruised
when he was caught between the car
and the Simon's building.
Teaching Girl to Drive.
| The owner of the car, Elda Bryant
of st. Anthony, was in the front seat
with Miss Haynes when the accident
occurred. He was unable to bring the
ear under control before it had shot
across the crossing and into the crowd
Bryant said he was teaching Miss
Haynes to drive and that she had been
doing nicely at the steering wheel on
the country roads. Why her instruct
| or chose Main street on a Saturday
night, when the street is thronged with
automobiles and pedestrians. was not
explained by Bryant Miss Haynes is
very small for her age and is frail.
| Father Hears Child's Cry.
The Hines family had reached the
city from Montour only a short time
before the accident After parking
their car the members of the family
had gone to East Main street and Mr.
J Hines and his two small sons had
stepped into a shoe shining parlor. Mrs
Hines and her daughter were standing
at the Second avenue corner, near the
Simon Style shop, awaiting the return
of Mr.. Hines and the boys.
Mr.. Hines said he heard cry and
left the shining parlor to soc what bod
happened. He hurried to the corner II
find that his little daughter nau Oee.i
seriously hurt and his wife painfully
injured. Both were taken at once to
the office of Dr. NJ. U. Chesire where
they were given surgical attention
Later the girl was removed to the
dental office of DR.. D. A. Collision fol
examination of the broken jaw bone.
The injured were removed to the
Hines home Saturday night. Sunday
night Mr.. Hines took his daughter tC
Chicago for treatment
Witnesses Express Feeling.
A great crowd at once gathered abou
the automobile and those who witness
ed the accident freely expressed theil
in Indignation. The police obtained the
names and addresses of the occupants
of the car but no arrests were made
/ The car was hurried from the street.
| The accident occurred Just across
the street from the scene of the mis-
/ hap of the previous Saturday evening
when Mrs. Mary Marvin was knocked
| down and seriously injured when cal
driven by George Raber shot backwa I'd
across the street.
Traffic Police On Duty.
! Two traffic policemen were on duty
Saturday evening at the Center street
80 First evanne Intersections of Main
street, but there was no officer at Sec