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Show 5 STEEL PLANT EMPLOYES HURT Workmen Escape Death When Car Is Demolished in Collision. Horace Lunceford, 25, of Grand View, is in the Aird Hospital badly bad-ly injured as the result of an automobile auto-mobile accident Wednesday morning morn-ing when the car he was driving collided with a truck driven by Arthur Hatch, 44, of Springville. The accident happened at about 13th South on the State highway as Lunceford and four other men were driving to work at the Columbia Col-umbia steel plant in Lunceford's roadster. Hatch was driving north and the two cars collided about in the center of the road, all but "demolishing the smaller . Lunceford Lunce-ford car. The injured: Horace Lunceford, cut on forehead, abrasions on face and possible fractured skull. Deep cut in head. S. D. Hatch, 45, cut forehead, fore-head, abrasions on left a.rra and right knee. Morley Snow, 28, injuries on forehead, nose and cheek. Lee Johnson and Orin Walker, Walk-er, who were also in the Lunceford machine, were only slightly injured. Both cars were badly damaged by the impact, but the machine containing the Steel Plant workmen work-men was virtually smashed to bits. It was difficult to see how Lunceford escaped death, the driver's side of the car was smashed so badly. The small car was turned around and skidded about 50 feet after the collision, according to Police Officer Bert Halladay, who investigated. The truck veered to the left and ran into a ditch. Tracks showed that the truck was a foot or two onto the wrong side of the road, Halladay said, but the fact that there were four men in the front seat of the Lunceford Lunce-ford auto was probably another contributory cause of the crash, he pointed out. |