Typed as spelled - Lena Stone Criswell
THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 172
Marlin, Texas, Friday, November 20, 1932
LOTT MAN INJURED WHEN
AUTOMOBILE QUITS ROAD
Driver Receives Deep Cut On Top of
Head--Picked Up by Passing Motorist.
With a deep gash
in top of the head received when his automobile turned over, Clifton Steen,
widely known citizen of Lott, was brought to a Marlin hospital at 7 o'clock
Thursday evening by Ernest Fivel, truck operator, with headquarters in Waco.
Mr. Fivel said he and his wife were en route to Houston in their touring car
when they saw a car overturned on the left of the road.
They immediately
investigated and found Mr. Steen near the car bleeding profusely from the cut on
the head.
They placed him
in their automobile and brought him to Marlin, where his injuries were given
attention.
Steen was coming
into Marlin, from the south. About 200 yars after he reached the hard
surfaced highway north of Big creek he met another car and turned to the right
to pass. In doing so, he got off the road and into the ditch. His
car crossed the ditch and struck the barbwire fence beyond, turning over and
landing on its top.
The car top was
crushed, windshield broken out, and the vehicle damaged generally.
Physicians
attending Mr. Steen said today he had a spine injury the extent of which had not
been determined and that were indications a moderate concussion of the bra(in).
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