Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-28
DIXIE AUTO COACH
|SD|TCHED, KILL INC
ONE, ||VJUR|NC SIX

| ernOOR were still in serious conultlOn
at the Athens General hospital today.
Jess Bennett, driver of the bus, has
recovered consciousness, and was
able to ask questions about the
wreck, but his condition is still con-
sidered serious.
Mrs. Mabel Sanders, who at first
consciousness, and her condition is
very critical. Mrs. JOHN w. Jen-
kins, wife of Prof. Jenkins, of the
University of Georgia, was reported
resting this morning, but the condi-
ton of her daughter, Barbara, aged
six, is unsatisfactory. The little girls
jaw was fractured in three places
and her chest was injured. l.. q.
Winters, the young man who was
| hurt slightly, left the hospital last
night, but collapsed downtown and
was sent back to the hospital.
BUS SAID TO BE RUNNING
AT 35-MILE PER HOUR RATE
MONROE, Ga, Oct. 25.-One man
was almost instantly killed, three
seriously injured and three received
| slight injuries, late Friday evening
when the northbound Administrators
bus, headed for Athens, while run
ming at the rate of about thirty-five
miles an hour, left the highway and
leaped into a ten-foot ditch 800 yards
east of the Alcovy river, about three
| miles west of here.
Louis l.. Marks, special agent of
the United States revenue depart
ment of the narcotic and drug inves-
tigation, died within an hour after
the wreck of injuries received in the
chest and lungs.
The seriously injured are Jesse
| Bennett, driver of the bus; the little
! fiVe-year-Old daughter of DR.. j. W..
Jenkins, professor of the University
of Georgia, Athens, and Mrs. Mable
! Sanders, of Athens.
Bennett received a fractured skull
| both on the front and on the rear
of his head and serious cuts about
the head. Mr.. Jenkins little daugh-
ter sustained a broken jaw and cuts
on the face and scalp, and Mrs.
Sanders received injuries in the
chest, bruises about the head and her
scalp was almost severed from her
| head.
Three Slightly Injured
Those slightly injured were Mrs.
J. w. Jenkins, wife OF Professor
Jenkins; l.. G.. Winters, of Mountain
City, n. c., and a young man of the
University of Georgia, whose name
could not be learned.
Mrs. Jenkins received facial
bruises and severe gashes of, the
scalp Mr.. Winters is suffering
from a bruised shoulder a sprained
knee, and a severe cut on the leg.
The university student received d
sudden jar, several broken fingers
and bruises over his body.
The wreck happened about 5
o'clock yesterday afternoon just as
| the car had crossed over the Alcovy
i river bridge. There were no eye
/ witnesses to the accident save a
farmer who was passing in wagon
and the passengers in the car. The
car was standing on its four wheels.
| Some tourists passed by shortly
after the accident after the two
young men, Mrs. Jenkins and her
little daughter had climbed out and
were attempting to render aid to the
suffering.
Medical aid and automobiles from
Monroe was soon rushed out to the
scene of the accident and the pa
tients were brought to the city
where they were given first-aid. MIR.
Marks died shortly after he was
carried to the Greer house.
Mr.. Winters, a passenger of tho
coach. stated that just as the coach
| crossed over the bridge, the driver
swerved to the right of the road to
miss a wagon passing in the oppo-
site direction of the coach, and as
| he began to steer the car back into
the road to turn "a slight curve to
| the left, it commenced to Wabble-
The brakes was applied but the car
leaped over the bank into the ditch
and landed flatly on all four wheels.
Sllidded Seventy Feet
No explanation can be given as
TO the cause of the wreck. The
tracks of the car show that the
| wheels were locked by the brakes,
and that it slidded in straight line
for more than 70 feet before it left
the road and landed into the ditch.
The patients were removed by am
! buance from Monroe to Athens Fri
day evening and placed in the hos
| pital for treatment. The body of
Mr.. Marks is being held by Armand
funeral directors until his immedi-
ate relatives can be located. He was
in the employ of the narcoting inves-
LEGATION under the direction of Fred
d. D!smukes, prohibition agent for
Georgia.
This is the worst wreck, either
automobile or railway, that has ever
occurred near Monroe since the his
tory of the town. Many people from
Walton county. adjoining counties
and from Atlanta and Athens
swarmed here all night last night
| and early this morning to view the
wreck.
The coach when it hit the bank
drove the front end about twelve
inches into the bank and then re-
bounded about eighteen inches. The
car weighs about II 900 pounds.
ROPER BELIEVES FAULTY
STEERING GEAR CAUSE
Captain Walter c. Roper. head of
| Dixie Coaches. Inc, stated Saturday
that after investigation, he had been
!! unable to determine the exact cause
tof the accident near Athens. late Fri
ttiay afternoon, which resulted in the
death of one passenger and injury
10 six others, pointing out that Jeff
| Bennett, driver of the coach, had
| not regained consciousness and an
explanation could not be obtained
from that source.
Captain Roper said the coach left
the road while travelling on level
stretch apd fell into a hole about
twelve feet from the roadway.
The coach looked as if it had
been lifted with a derrick and placed