Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-16
DANIELsON ,.

Five JeWett CltV young Ilel A cttlIie within an ace of ringing up their death numbers Saturday a few minutes aft CT midnight when the light touring car in which they were rushing from Wildwood park for their home town crashed into the sideboard of a motor- | truck, protruding over the rear of a touring car driven by Clifford Davis | of North Main street, the accident | happening at the bridge that crosses | the stream that runs under the state highway at Elmville. After hitting the | sideboard the car careened sharply to l the left and crashed into the heavy 1 lattice iron work railing on the east 1 erly side of the bridge. Good iron work, properly set in place, saved the l Jewett City young men and the car in which they were riding from plunging through the bridgeside and into the rocky bottom of the stream, 15 feet below As it was. the front end of the car was pointing over the side of the bridge into the stream, and the left rear wheel was within three inches of
 the edges of the blanks when the car
 came to stop, complete wreck of the nifty piece of mechanism that was breezing down the highway a min ute before the accident.
 Of the five young men in the car
 only one was seriously hurt, Ulysses Guilette, riding in the rear seat of the wrecked car was pinned between the side of the machine, which was nearly brand new. and the bridge rail and suffered cuts about the head and i face and chest injuriet He was | picked up by one of a string of cars returning from Wilwood park and was rushed to the office of Dr. F. T. Todd | in Danielson. where his injuries re- ceived attention. Later he was talk
 en to his home in Jewett City. Lester
 Blanchard was the driver of the
 wrecked car which is the property of
 Adam Roieske, Jewett City. and he es-
 capped with just a scratch on his hand,
 notwithstanding that the windshield l of the machine which he was piloting
 was completely smashed and the space I about his feet was strewn with brok | en glass. According to Blanchard, the driver, the other young men in the car were Fred Belisle and William Sym | ington, all of Jewett City.
 | Asked as to how the accident had
 happend within three minutes after its occurrence, Blanchard said: We were coming down on our way home when we saw a car ahead of us and swung to the left to pass. Something smashed through or windshield and we crashed into the bridge. Here is the piece of truck sideboard that smash
 ed through the windshield. It. was Lsticking behind the car.'' Blanchard
 picked up four foot. or whereabouts,
 section of sideboard that lay in the
 grass beside the wrecked machine.
 Clifford Davis, of North Main street
 driver of the touring car that was
 carving the sideboard said: "One of JAE .-4 Killingly while coming in on a trip ' from Providence. With my wife, l went up to fiid it. which I did, and was on my way home when the acci-
 dent happened Before coming out ot . the East Killingly road at Elmville
 slowed down my car and looked UT
 the main highway as far as I could. did not see a headlight, so crossed out into the highway leading to Daniel
 son and had swung over on to the right side of the road when I heari I the rush of car and felt the crasf < of it against the rear end of my ma a chine. The sideboard of the truck I was carrying lay over the tops O
 the seats of our touring car. and pro-
 truded over the rear end. I sat driv-
 ing, on the left front side, and my wifi
 sat in the rear seat, on the right side she steadying the truck sideboard tha ! was being carried between us, Whe1 the machine hit us that sideboard wa driven with great force up against thi
 front end of my car near the wind shield. If my wife had been sitting il = the other front seat beside me, sh 7 would have been killed. l. feel tha the tail light of my machine, whicl was burning brightly, was an ampl . danger warning to anyone who migh :: be following"
 MT. Davis halted his machine at tn . location of the accident and remaine, z | there until all the excitement wa = l over. sThe sideboard that was pro , truding over the rear end of the ca 7 was smashed cleanly in tw oparts on h part of which was picked up by tn q Jewett City young men to be used a = an exhibit in their interest in case c
 later developments.
 f The nearly new car that was smash II ed is about a complete wreck so ia a aa as the Don't end is concerned Ever if spoke was taken cleanly out of tn - left front wheel. The axle l. twisted and the lenders twisted int : junk. The machine was stalled on tn 70 trolley track on the bridge when it fin Lr ished it's wild flight, and had to | Is pulled across the highway by grou
 
 le through. The accident happend z .e about 1920 a. m. Sunday. During Sur d day the car remained in the yard ( h James Kent. Elmville close to whel m the accident happened.
 III Miss Mary Vasiiades, of Mechan l street, and Theodore Psiachos, a 7l owner of the Colonial restaurant q Putnam, were married here by Re ;a l. c. P. Prevezas. of Southbridge. Aftt 70 ,o wedding trip to New York and Cone oe Island, they will make their home h Putnam.
 SC A large number of girls and boy d members of the parish received the IS first communion at the early mass d, St. James church Sunday. In the af le ernoon there was special service l. which the children renewed their bal
 . tismal vows. Rev. J. P. Guinet, M. le provincial of La Salette Order of Mi. A. sionaries, was in Danielson Sunday r. attend the special ceremonies of u in day and was celebrant of the oclot m mass.
 o- Miss Gladys Leader of Attawauea m and P. J. Sheeriden, manager of Will, Iv wood park will be married at St. J, as seph's church. Dayville, Tuesd: ID morning at a nuptial high mass. Mi ,n Leader has been a teacher in Xii re ingly's public schools for several year Ve At St. Anne's church in Southbrid ut ,L this (Monday) morning Miss Rita Gi os mache of Southbridge and Stanley R ar gis of Danielson will be united in ma IS riage. The groom was recently ho iy5 orably discharged from the A. F. .u ,,,, after many months of service ove tss seas. Originally he was a member hv the Thirty Eighth Company, C. A. ,. of Danielson. and went into service ,io a member of that organizat tion. l, of tlan Nor ,inlc l..