The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-06
ONE KILLED, FOUR
INJURED, IN CRASH;
FROM INDIANAPOLIS

One resident OF Indianapolis was
killed, four others of that ely seriously
injured, one perhaps fatally, in head
on collision between two automobiles,
four miles west of Centerville, near
Jackson's Hill, on the National road.
Sunday morning.
The dead:
Dale Jones. is years old, 349 West
Twenty ~ street, Indianapolis.
The injured:
Fred Jones, 40 years old, father OF
Dale, 349 West Twenty-ninth street.
indianapolis, badly bruised and cut.
Mrs. Thomas Cooper, 65 years old,
2204 College avenue, Indianapolis:
skull fractured. shoulder dislocated
and badly cut about the face.
Mrs. A. w. Hastings, 40 years old,
1888 Balsam avenue, Indianapolis;
badly cut and bruised about the body.
Harold Hastings, II years old, son
of Mrs. Hastings, 1888 Balsam avenue;
Indianapolis; bruised and shaken up:
All of the injured except Harold
Hastings are at the Reid Memorial nos
pital here.
Try to Pass Machine.
The accident occurred when the two
drivers tried to pass an auto belonging
to David Hannigan, retired farmer, OF
Centerville, who had turned east into
the National road from side ROAD.
iHannigan had stopped his car, bCt
started when the two automobiles ap-
preaching each other in Opposite OIL
rections, were only a short distance
from him.
Harold Hastings, driving east, with
his mother and Mrs. Cooper, unaware
of the approaching west-bound car
with Dale Jones at the steering wheel,
and with his view INSTRUCTED py ram
ON his windshield, tried to go around
Hannigan who had given the ROAD 10
Jones.
Each machine was running ABOUT
80 miles an hour. Seeing tnat ne
would either side swipe the Hannlsah
car or crash into the Jones car Hast-
ings tried to steer between the t"o
cars. Ill.
The two autos collided head-on WIN
such force that Jones was nurie"
head first through the Wlndsnlelo on
the macadam road. Coroner p p;nia
s.id that a piece of the Wlndsnlelo
penetrated the brain of Jones, caus-
inc death instantly Both cars were
hurled to the side of the ROAD, over
turning and pinning down some OF the
oonunants The machines were oadiJ
wrecked.
Pinned Beneath Car.
Mrs Conner was pinned beneath the
Hastings car. She was released Win
difficulty by Hannigan ana 1arnels
who were attracted to the sceho Vi
the wreck. e. +,a
Ered ZONES was extricated from the
dehris of his car, which had 1aiieh
IN the tracks of the Terre HauIe'
Indiana &, Eastern Traction company,
Al were rushed to Reid Memoirs,
hosnital where Mrs. Cooper was SUI
Wing unconscious Monday, with ne,
condition regarded as critical. seVera.
DAYS may elapse before IL Is hno"a
whether she will recover. .
Mrs. Cooper Most Seriously Hure.
Nc Cooner is the wife or a =.
r. w railroad conductor. Mrs. hast
;ngs the wife of a conductor on the
Monon railroad. Harold Hastings also
- employed by the Monon raliru na,i
The MARTY was on its way 10 WIZ
,i,roshnre nine miles north OF mere.
- snend sunday and celebrate LABOR
A., Nth Mrs. Omar Pierce relative
tones and his son were returnlns W
Js;a,anolis from a visit with relatives
residing in Lynn. sa;d
, Coroner S. Edgar Bond Monoay sai9
his investigation so far nad olsc'ooeo
nothing that would hold either orisel
RESPONSIBLE as witnesses agree Ina'
neither auto was proceeding at hlsh
rate of speed and that botn drivers
had used ordinary precautions.