The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-29
One Killed.
Three Hurt.
i'll. Collision
Lar Carrying Visitors 10 Hos
pital Struck by Second
Machine at Thirty.
Eighth and Dodge.
Driver Held by Police

While driving to Methodist hos
pltal in Omaha to visit a sick mother,
one woman was killed. her husband,
his father and his sister were in.
Jured, two of them dangerously.
when their automobile collded with
another machine at Thirty-eighth
and Dodge streets at 1920 Yesterday
morning
The dead:
Mrs. Muricl Eads, es. Browns
vile. Neb.
The injured:
II. l.. Eads, her husband. left
arm bruised.
Il. l.. Eads, ds. father of II. l..
. Eads, farmer from Auburn, Neb.,
acerations, sprained back, probable
Internal injuries: serious.
Gladys Eads, %. sister of II. l..
Eads, school teacher at David City,
Neo., internal injuries; serious.
Ihe Eads family Was going to visit
Mrs. L. l.. lads. She was told of
tho accident, but not of the fatality.
T.. l.. Eads was not told his daugh.
tcr.in-law had been killed
Driver Arrested.
The younger Eads was driving. The
Ford touring car was travelling north
on Thirty-eighth street Il collided
with another Ford touring car at
Dodge street. driven by G. w. Darrow,
carpenter, 1868 ST. Marys avenue.
The Eads car had side curtains at
tached.
Darrow was driving from one job on
California street house to another.
With him was his employer, il. j.
Joseph, SO North Forty-third avenue.
Darrow was arrested on charge
of reckless driving.
Il don't know just how it hap.
rened,' he said. grief stricken.
Neither car was going fast. We were
coming down that steep grade on
Dodge street. The view wasn't very
clear. but I thought the road was
clear. l guess | was partly to blame,
though, for Eads had the right of
way"
Machine Knocked Over.
When the automobiles colided the
lads machine was knocked over
against the northeast curbing. The
right rear wheel was broken. None
of the passengers was thrown out of
the car. The Dalrow car turned over.
but Darrow and Joseph escaped with
= only a bruise or two. The Eads car
did not turn over.
Mrs. Eads must have been thrown
against the top of the machine, in
q nf paf ,,,ff
Peterson, who said he believed her
neck was broken. DR.. Miller, who at.
tended her at the hospital, reported
death was caused by fracture of the
skull but said she might have suf
fered broken neck. too.
Mrs. Eads died on the way TO the
hospital from which they were but
10 blocks distant
w Il. Bonham of the Western Mo-
tor company. who was passing the
scene, halted his light truck and with
the aid of Darrow and Joseph, and
Jack Lyons and George Rybin, en-
ployes of the Omaha Gas company.
laid the injured in the truck and took
them to the hospital.
Husband CoIIapses.
The younger Mrs. Eads did not want
TO make the trip from Auburn to
Omaha yesterday, it was later learned,
and asked to be allowed to remain at
home with her baby, Geraldine. 2. But
she was persuaded to join the party
TO visit her husbands mother.
When the younger Eads was told
his wife had been killed. he collapsed
and became hysterical.
He moaned and screamed, crying.
"Oh. it's awful: oh. it's awfult'
When the patrol chauffeur took in
to him the bonnet and gloves his wife
was wearing at the time of the crash
he snatched them and clasping them
to his breast, sobbed, my God. it's
terrible.'
The woman's shoes were torn from
her feet in the accident, detectives
aid.
The Eads family was driving from
Auburn to Omaha. Brownsville is just
a short way from Auburn.
The intersection of Thirty eighth
and Dodge streets. formed as sort OF
pocket because of steep grades from
all directions except the east. has been
the scene of many automobile acci
dents. some OF which have resulted