Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-06-24
TWO BADLY HURT
IN A RACING CAR
WALTER CALHOUN AND FRANK
WARREN VICTIMS
Narrowly Escape Death When Stutz
Strikes Tree and Turns Bottom
Up on Cornwall Road

When Frank P Warren lost control
| of the high powered Stutz roadster
that he was putting through its PAGES
on the Cornwall road Wednesday al
ternoon, he and his companion, Walter
w. Calhoun, were seriously hurt in the
crash against a tree. The former suf-
fered a broken rib, a tear in his side
and severe bruises, while the latter met
with a dislocated hip, two scalp
wounds and bruising Both were rest
ing as comfortably as could be expect
ed this morning,
The accident happened at half past
five, near the Matthews farm on the
road to East Cornwall According to
Mrs, Thomas Gilligan who was return
ing to her home in Cornwall and in
front of whose horse the wrecked car
piled up but a rod away, the Stutz was
travelling at an excessive speed 9th
ers who were working in the. fields as
the car passed estimated its pace from
60 to 10 miles an hour As Mrs. Gilli-
gan turned the corner at the Matthews
house She saw the car descending the
long hill a quarter Of a mile distant, in
a heavy cloud Of dust Its dizzy speed
made her eXClaim to her daughter who
rode with her My, look at that car
come! A moment later She saw it
crlss-cross in a zig-zag of the road,
apparently out of the control of the
driver, First on one side, then the
other it hurdled until it got up too
far on the left bank and crashed
against a tree throwing the occupants
into the middle of the road, and then
rolled over on its side again resting
with its wheels in the air. Had the
car pushed on a rod farther it would
have struck Mrs Gilligan and her
buggy with probably fatal results.
Mrs Gilligan said that the two men
seemed lifeless as they lay in the road |.
where they had fallen Her first
thought was to run for aid Her cries
of Help! were quickly answered by
several men who were working in the |
vicinity She telephoned for medical
assistance and returned to aid in their |
care. The injured were removed to tine .
side Of the road where in few mo-
ments Dr.. R. C. Flagg reached them .
after a hasty drive from Midd,eDury .
DR. l. P Sharon very fortunately hap
pened along soon after the smash-up
enroute to his home in Shorehanl, and
devoted his attention to Mr. Warren.
The latter had generously waved
DR. Flag away from himself that his
might receive first atten-
ton
Mr.. Calhoun was removed to the
home OF his parents M- and Mrs. Al
Ian Calhoun on South street
Mr.. Warren was taken to his home
on Court street in Dr. Sharon's car. As
the doctor was settling him comfort
ably in the rear seat, the injured man
seemed more concerned about the de-
DriS OF the Stutz that was piled On
the roadside a few yards away than
about his bleeding face and torn leg
The car was badly wrecked As it
was towed into the garage three hours
after the accident, it formed a grue-
some contrast in its crippled and tan
5led condition to the sputterlng speed
,ter, bright in its new paint, that raced
rom the village four hours before 1t
$ owned by Erwin G. Piper, whose
private garage Mr.. Warren has con-
luCted since the sale of his own repair
h0D on Court street several months
lgo 1t is typicaIly speed car capa-
'le OF perhaps s. miles an hour