Carnehan Auto Accident - 1915

CARNEHAN, MCMILLAN, HALL

Posted By: A.M.W. (email)
Date: 6/8/2004 at 19:14:23

Mt. Pleasant Weekly News Journal – 10-27-1915

Mr. C. E. Carnehan and Family Meet with Mishap

Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Carnehan of this city were victims of a vicious auto accident about half way between New London and Danville Saturday forenoon, which resulted in severe bruises for all occupants of the car.

Mr. Carnehan left here in the early morning for a pleasure ride to Burlington in his Ford touring car. With him were his wife, daughter, Mary, son, and also Miss Agnes McMillan. All went well until the place of the accident was reached. Miss Mary Carnehan was running the car and Mr. Carnehan was in the front seat with her. The car was running about twenty miles and hour when the front wheels hit a sharp rise in the ground where a culvert had just been put in diagonally across the road. The shock of the impact threw the front wheels askew forcing off one of the tires of the front wheels while the momentum of the body of the car threw it square across the road and over it went on its side.

It was all done so quickly that Mr. Carnehan only conjectures what did take place. He was pinned under the car but the rest were thrown out. His young son was found ahead of the car lying in the roadway and unconscious. He was supposed to be dead and was laid by the side of the road, while attention was given to the living who were badly but and scratched and bruised.

In no time, help was at hand and the entire party was taken to the Duckendorf residence where every courtesy was shown the injured people. In the meanwhile, it was found that the boy was unconscious instead of dead and a physician was summoned from New London. At this time, all the members of the party are about and aside from painful bruises and cuts, are doing well.

Strange to say, the engine of the car was still running after Mr. Carnehan had been helped from the wreck and Mr. Carnehan was able to drive the car home in the afternoon. The rest of the family was brought home by Mr. Fred Hall later that evening.