The Whitewright Sun
Friday, November 10, 1916
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At 11 o'clock Saturday night five Whitewright young men were more or less seriously injured when the automobile they were driving crashed into a fence and overturned. The accident occurred about two miles north of Whitewright on the Bells pike road. The parties in the car were members of the Whitewright band returning from Ector, where they had furnished music for a play Saturday evening. Glenn Doss, who was driving the car, said he was hitting about a twenty-mile clip on a straight stretch when he met some parties in a buggy who refused to give him any of the road, forcing him to either hit them or go around, and he chose the latter course. He said his lights were so dim he could not see the buggy until within a few yards of it, and that at the rate he was driving it was impossible to stop the car, the service brake being worn until it had little effect on slowing down the speed of the car. He swerved to the right and avoided a collision with the buggy, but in trying to right the car, the steering gear being faulty, lost control of it and crashed into a barbed-wire fence. The car hit an embankment before overturning on top of the fence, throwing Robert Little and E. B. Martin into the wire, Jesse Wallace, who was in the rear seat with Little and Martin, was thrown over the wire and alighted on his face in a corn field. Cloy Horten was in the front seat with the driver and they were both pinioned under the car, where they remained until the car was lifted off of them by parties who were passing in a buggy. The boys got the car on its feet and in running order, gathered up what remained of their instruments and drove to town, where physicians labored for three hours sewing up and bandaging their wounds. E. B. Martin had his right ear cut in half and the right temple artery was severed, and it required thirty-nine stitches to sew up the wounds on his face; he also sustained several bad bruises and gashes about the body. Robert Little's face was severely cut, requiring ten stitches and he also had several body bruises. Cloy Horton was painfully bruised about the head, and had a gash in his face that required three stitches. Jesse Wallace was bruised about the body and had several inches of skin taken off his face. Glenn Doss had a gash in his back and several minor gashes in his right hand, and was bruised about the body. All the boys had their clothes torn into shreds with the exceptions of Wallace. The car was damaged considerably. The accident is attributed to the parties in the buggy having refused to give their share of the road and to faulty steering gear on the car.

 


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