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Show FIVE HAVE -CLOSE CALL Flffi DEATH Mrs. Mary A. Cheesman and Two Granddaughters Hurt in Auto Crash. Five persons had a narrow escape from fatal Injury late yesterday afternoon when an automobile said to have been driven by Mrs. R. M. Campbell of Walker Wal-ker lane. Murray, collided with a telephone tele-phone post a short distance from her homo. In the machine with Mrs. Campbell Camp-bell were her mother, Mrs. Mary A. Cheesman of the same address, and her three children, Beatrice, aged 10; Virginia, Vir-ginia, 8, and Janet, 12. Mrs. Cheesman and Janet are at the Holy Cross hospital, hos-pital, the former sufferini; from numerous severe bruises and lacerations about the head and body, and the latter frram a fracture of the left leg, received when she xx-as thrown from the car to the street. Virginia sustained a broken nose xxhen thrown against the back of the front seat. The accident occurred, according to witnesses, when the Campbell machine turned loo far to one side of the street, to permit the passage of an automobile said to have been driven by Itichard Anderson An-derson of .Murray. Janet was thrown from the car, while Mrs. Cheesman and the two remaining children were thrown violently from their seals. The steeling wheel iield Mrs. Campbell in her teat, and aside from minor bruises and contusions con-tusions she Is said to have been unhurt. The Injured were taken to Holy Cross hospital by i. il. Walker of Murray, where thev were attended by Tr. A. J. Ilnsmer. fr.Howlni.' whi'-h all but Mrs. Cheesman and Janet were sent to their homes. The car was badly damaged by the crash. |