Show road was straight where auto went over A B andrus chairman of the bond bo nd of county commissioners lahs J pickett county it torne and the nna editor made i trip out tuesday morning to the scene of the recent auto accident it the bellevue black ridge henderson co taking the party out the object of the trip was to net the width of alie road and other dist auces having a beading on the accident a CO foot tape bung taken along for tatt purpose the distance to the place of accident from belleme Bel leue is somewhere bome where near four and la on the first level stretch of after climbing up the hill going north here there ia i perfectly straight piece of road and nearly leel for a distance of feet the car plunging off near alie center of this straight cli feet aiom its commencement at alio south as shown by the tape leisure the county attorney took a kodak with him and took a snap of the piece of road standing at the south end of it co and the editor standing at alio place where the car left alie road and corn andrus it alie part of the straight stretch mi pickett has not got one of aliese pictures developed or we would have published it in this issue the width of the roul at the place where the cr left is 10 feet 6 inches measurements taken from the outer edge of the road to the bottom of the hill where the wrecked auto lies bottom side up 19 feet the distance from alie edge of the kovl to the place where one wheel the near fore one and the broken steering knuckle lav is 21 feet here mrs casto the aged lady who died supposedly of fright was shot out the distance down the hill to the place where the last occupant was shot out odthe car is 65 feet here alie cir rented again sta huge boulder for fully 20 mm utes before finally turning over and plunging to the bottom the broken steering knuckle attached to the car lias what appears to be an oil stain halfway half way across the ance of the break the appearing bright 1 he editor requested to be shown the other part and was told it was in the wapel at bellevue on arriving at bellevue the editor looked at the other part odthe steering knuckle and found a stain similar to the one on alie part of the knuckle attached to alie car and corresponding to it this may have no bearing on alie cau e of the accident and yet it may have had considerable to do with it if it tended to show a flaw in the knuckle for instance the inner bide of the wheel also has cuts and damages that could hardev have been done in any other way than bv some part of the hard steel structure of the car striking it while the party was at the bot tom of the hill a car stopped on alie road above and its occupants two men descended the hill one of them closely examined alie wrecked car and remarked ill bet anything tins accident w n caused by a broken steering knuckle he further said he had a narrow escape aiom alie same cause he was on his way from pioche nev on the of july last and while driving his auto along a fairly smooth road it shot suddenly out almost at a right angle to alie path he was and went about 16 feet before he could stop it he found that a steering knuckle had broken and chused the car to swerve oil its course he said fortunately Fortu natly I 1 w as on a straight road with level country on either side of it if it biad happened on hill I 1 ind romr over a few minutes before it would have been the laba of me the editor inquired of the gentleman his ame and address and was informed V delmue of pioche nev who was returning after a cattle buying trip through the dixie country mr pickett also look a picture of the face of the hill showing alie car at the bottom As soon as lie can get some pictures developed we will have half tones made and publish them in this paper |