The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-07-12
AUTO MISKAPS FATAL
TO TWO; THREE ARE
HURT MONDAY NIGHT

Two people were killed and three
injured in a series of automobile ac-
cidents which occurred in Richmond
and vicinity Monday evening.
THE DEAD
Mrs. Mary WinsIow, IS years old
2eIa South Eleventh street, skull
fractured.
William Niebuhr, 29 years old, 6o7
South Twelfth street, skull fractured
and neck broken.
THE INJURED.
Clarence Niebuhr, 1s years old, 607
South Twelfth street, cut about face
and body bruised.
Walter Pleasant, coIored, 80 years
old, 52e South Twelfth street, slightly
injured.
HernIey Tout, II years old, PIC
Lincoln street, cut about face.
Mrs. Mary Winslow was run down
by an automobile driven by Frank
Tillson, 401 South Fourteenth street
at 1880 p. m. She was starting tc
cross A street at South Eleventh.
Mrs. Winslow was carrying an um
brella in the heavy rain that was
falling at that time. This is thought
to have prevented her seeing the ap
preaching machine, the driver o.
which was blinded by the rain. She
was dead before a physician reached
her.
Accident Unavoidable
Coroner S. Edgar Bond, who in
vestigated the accident is of the opin
ion that it was unavoidable. Wit
nesses state that Mrs. Winslow step
ped off the sidewalk directly in the
path of the machine. 1t was stated
that the machine was not travelling a.
a fast rate of speed. The body wa;
removed to the undertaking parlorS
of Pohlmeyer, Stegall and Downing
Funeral arrangements have not beer
completed.
! The deceased is sister of Henr,
/ Dickinson, of the Jefferson apart
ments. She has one son, Herbert, WHIT
! is resident of Chicago.
Nebuhr Killed.
! William Niebuhr, 607 South Twelfth
street, was fatally injured when tn,
/ automobile in which he was ridins
skidded in loose gravel about tive
/ miles south of Fairhaven, Ohio, a
4:30 o'clock Monday afternoon. Clar
ence Niebuhr, a brother. was injured
slightly.
Walter Pleasant, colored, So
| South Twelfth street, was driving tn,
= touring car when the car struck th'
gravel, tearing off the left from
wheel. The car was thrown back in
| to the road and turned over severa
| times, coming to rest in a position
| across the road.
J The passengers were thrown out
Willitm Niebuhr skull and ches
were crushed, according to DR.. Holly
of College Corner, who was called b,
witnesses of the accident
Car Demolished.
DR.. Holly states that the car ha,
the front wheel torn off, all fender
crushed, top smashed down and wind
shield demolished Niebuhr died sool
after Dr.. Holly reached the scene.
/ The Niebuhrs had just admonishe
the driver, Pleasant, to drive NOR
slowly, when the accident occurred
William Niebuhr was riding in tn
front seat, ana MS DrOtnef clarence
was lying in the rear seat. Clarenc
was thrown into the front seat whe
the wheel was torn off, and both wer
thrown out later as the car was rollin
over in the road. The body of Willlar
Niebuhr was brought to the funera
Iparlors of Klute & Smith. The tw
other occupants of the car were nc
seriously injured.
Walter c. Niebuhr, brother, men
Der of 112 Infantry. 2Sth Division, wa
killed in action at Chateau Thierry o
July q, 1918.
Tout Injured.
/ Hernley Tout had his face badl
lacerated when Harry Mann, 206 LII
coin street, ran his machine into
bridge about four miles south of Ricl
mond on the Abingdon pike, to avoi
colliding with another machine whic
was approaching at a fast rate ,
speed. None of the other occupants
the car was injured. The machine wa
badly damaged.
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