ONE KILLED AND
SEVERAL HURT AS
TRUCK HITS COW
Twenty Persons Scattered In
Accident Near
Mobile
MOBILE, Ala., August 10.—A baby
was killed, five women and five men
were Injured seriously, some prob
ably fatally, and 10 more men.
women and children were injured
slightly when a truck, loaded with 20
persons, crashed into a cow and
overturned on the Cedar Point road,
one mile south of the Dog river
bridge, shortly before 3 o'clock this
morning.
All of the Injured and dead were
Creoles. The party was returning
from a fish fry at Monroe Island and
according to Simeon Collins, driver,
they were riding at about 20 miles
an hour when the accident occurred.
Five cows were in the road, he said,
and he put on the brakes suddenly
to avoid striking them. The truck
hit one of the animals, skidded and
overturned. The top of the big truck
was crushed and some of the pas
sengers were pinned beneath the
machine. The driver was uninjured
The dead infant, Norma Broadus,
eight months old, was in her moth
er's arms in front of the body of the
truck. Her skull was fractured.
She died almost instantly.
Alberta Morgan was riding also in
the front of the body of the truck.
She suffered a compound fracture of
the left arm, serious concussions and
lacerations and a fractured nose. Her
arm was amputated at the city hos
pital, where the injured were carried.
CITY OFFICIALS SAY
OUTLOOK IS PLEASING
Home Rule Bill Placed In Hand* Of
Municipal Organization Committee
"We are very well satlsfi- 1 with
'he way things are going.’ was the
• iimnent of City Comm.ssinner WT. h*
Harrison and City Attorney W. J.
