Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-26
Mrs. Cobb Lies in Hospital
i'm a Critical Condition
From Shock and Bruises.
BABY IS UN4URT'
Family Is Victim of Unex-
planned Accident When
2 Cars Collide Head-On

Walter E. Cobb Southern Pacific
fireman, and his little son, Emmett
are dead and Mrs. Mildred Cobb is
in the Calumet hospital in a precarious
condition as the result of one of the
Saddest and most horrible automobile
accidents that ever occurred in Doug
las.
The Cobb family we're returning to
the city in o Ford touring car after
a drive up the Bisbee highway Oh
Sunday afternoon when a yStudebaker
sedan driven by d. S. Blackhurst,
Of Bisbee, collided with the Cobb car
at the stock pens just outside OF
Douglas.
The smaller car was hurled over the
embankment on the south side of the
highway and completely demolished.
The larger car, in which Blackhurst
was riding with his wife, came up some
80 feet from the highway on the north
side.
Passers by removed the dead and
injured. Walter Cobb was dead when
the first persons arrived at the scene.
The eight year old son and his mother
were rushed to the Calumet hospital,
where the little boy died within a few
moments Both father and son were
so badly crushed and mutilated that
physicians stated nothing could be
done.
Jimmy Ruth Cobb, aged six years,
escaped with minor bruises on the
body and great bruise on the fore
head, David Cobb, less than two years
old, was not even scratched.
Mrs. Cobb, an expectant mother, was
rendered unconscious from a blow on
the head, badly strained back, pos
sible internal injuries and is suffering
from shock. Physicians in charge at
the Calumet hold out every hope for
her recovery, but dread the time when
she RECEIVERS full consciousness and
must be told that her husband and
her eldest son are dead.
BlackhurSt, the driver of the other
car, was cut about the head by glass
from his windshield, through which
the force of the impact almost hurled
| him. His wife was severely shaken
and terribly affected by the horrible
consequences of the accident, pelng
Frustrated for some time after the
accident.
! An investigation of the accident was
started at once by deputy sherltts
assisted by Justice Of the Peace Jacks
The investigation was carried on Mon
day by Justice of the Peace Ollie Phil
lips of the Pirtleville precinct and II
was unofficially announced late last
night that preparations for the holding
of an inquest today were going 1or-
/ ward.
Blackhurst, the driver of the larger
car, so far as has been learned, Is
the only witness to the accident except
! the six year old Jimmy Ruth Cobb
, This man was questioned at some
| length both by Judge Jack and by g
representative of the Dispatch.
He told his questioners that he ano
his wife had driven to Aqua Prieta
from their home in Bisbee and were
returning. He said that he hod nc
idea how the accident had happened
and repeated questioning could bring
nothing from him more than that, 81
cannot understand how it happened,
he said over and over again. His wife
could add nothing to his remarks be-
cause of her hysterical condition.
The dead man was an employe o.
the Southern Pacific. The family hac
lived here and in Bisbee for many
years. They are widely known ane
highly respected. They lived at 1922
Fifteenth street.
An indication of the terrific force
with which their car was hurled int
the ditch may be gathered from tl1'
fact that even q little dog which thu
children had taken with them for th'
ride was SO badly crushed that it coult
not drag itself from the wreckage.
Throughout the late afternoon anC
night Sunday and all day Monda,
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