Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-22

| Woman Hurt on Diked Center Street.
Eight were injured, one probably ia
tally, in a series Of three automobile
accidents. two near this city and the
other close to state Center Thursday
Afternoon and night. One victim OF the
accident near State Center, William
Mowery. aged II, son Of Mrs. Clara
Mowery. of Melbourne, probably will
die. He is suffering with a fractured
skull and up to late this forenoon has
been unconscious since the accident
collision OF automobiles.
Mowery's companions less seriously.
but painfully hurt were:
| James Coughenour, son OF James
Coughonour. Melbou cut above the
face and eyes, with one severe cash
near the eye, and badly bruised about
the head.
| Leslie Mitchell. Melbourne. one rib
of right side broken, bruised and cut
about the head. face and ear.
Otner "TeCk viCtiHss
| Four others injured in the two ac-
cidcnts NEAR this city were: Mrs. Or
vile Holcomb. 51Sh Bromley street,
badly cut and bruised and shocked
when the car she and her companions
were in was wrecked On Runyon hill
in the Prairieville road, Taylor town
ship. about two miles north Of the city.
| Others injured with Mrs. Holcomb
were:
| Mrs. John Hayes, OF Boone, daugh-
ter Of Mrs. Holcomb, who was cut and
bruised.
Mrs Jessie Kindhart, Chicago. q sis
ter of Mrs. Holcomb, badly cut arm
and injured about the body.
| The fourth victim was an unknown
woman, who was injured when the
l car she was in ran off the diked Cen
| ter street road insi de the city limits
after dark Thursday. The woman was
said to be only slightly hurt. The car
was gotten out and the occupants rode
away in 1t. Their names could not be
learned.
| Crash Into Standing Car.
| The car driven by Coughenour, who
Is 20, and drayman of Melbourne, In
which Mitchell and Mowery were rid
ing, crashed into the car owned by
/! William M. Keith, Northwestern Sec
| ton foreman of Lamoille. Mrs. Keith
was in the car. but she escaped with
1 no worse injuries than severe shak-
! ing up and bad fright. The acci-
/ dent happened about 1880 at night
near the F. L. Hutson farm on the
South road while Coughenour was
! driving home from State Center.
The Keith car had run out Of gas.
Leaving Mrs. Keith In it, her husband
went to Illusions for gas. While ne
was gone the Coughenour car. being
4 driven at a very high rate Of speed. 1t
! was said at State Center came tearing
i from the west The spec ling car
crashed into the rear Of the Geith auto
mobile.
Sound A. Of Explosion.
Those near enough to hear described
the noise of the crash of the cars as
like an explosion. The Coughenour
motor, a powerful eight touring car, Is
said to have leaped into the air and
turned over twice without leaving the
road. The occupants were hurled bod
lily from It
Mrs. Keith probably would have been
killed but for a fortunate incident. She
had been in the rear seat Of the car
but shortly before the accident hap
pened and while her husband was gone
for gas, she got into the front seat.
It was said at State Center that oc-
cupants Of the Coughenour car gave as
an excuse that the dust from other
cars ahead OF them in the road hid the
Keith car from view until they were
nearly upon 1t. '
Mowery Still Unconscious.
Mowery suffered q fracture OF the
skull of about the size Of a silver dol
lar. An operation was performed al
i Englewood& hospital. State Center
where he was removed and the de-
pressed bone was removed. His con-
dition is regarded as very serious, with
the outcome in doubt. Coughenour anc
Mitchell, the latter OF whom is a youne
farmer living two miles north OF Mel
bourne, and Mrs. Keith were removed
to their respective homes.
Three of the four wheels Of the
Coughenour car were crushed. the
body was smashed and the top was q
d wreck. The Keith car had one whee'
i crushed, an axle bent and the body
was smashed.
/ Other Accident on Hill.
il The accident that befell Mrs. Hol-
comb, her sister and daughter. &C.
Cured early In the afternoon while The
i party, with q driver, were coming
down the hill. It Is not known no"
this accident happened, as none O
those in It could be reached this fore.
noon. Neighbors near the scene o.
the smash said the car ran into thu
ditch. turned over and was wrecked
Mrs. Holcomb, Mrs. Hayes and Mrs
Kindhart were hurried to the Deac
oness hospital. It was thought at frs
some Of the party were killed, but theil
injuries proved less dangerous thar
appearances indicated
City Now Cutting Weeds.
The accident that befell the woman
on the diked Center street road, wal
said to have been caused by the ca,
having been turned too far into tn
uncut weeds at the side Of the road
until 1t went off. Warned only Thurs
day that the weeds should be cut be-
fore another and the fourth accident
on that road occurred, the city toda,
began cutting the weeds which FOL
months have INSTRUCTED the view o.
the margin Of the road and at TIT
l%urp tho rnad itself tl- s IA sEras