Show I I I TRUCK STRUCK GY BY CAR I IB B BOY Y IS BELIEVED NEAR TO DEATH Earl R. R Cross Suffers Fracture Fracture Frac Frac- ture of Skull When Hit by Auto While Playing on Second South Street I Earl Robert Cross year old son of Mr and Mrs Irs E. E B. B Cross West est Second South street suffered a depressed skull fracture and other injuries which may may prove fatal when he was struck by bv an automobile driven by T. T N. N Bleak Jr of Formosa place at noon Saturday The lad was playing in n the street I Ion on Second South street between Sixth and Seventh West Vest streets when another boy started pursuit which led into the middle of oC the I street The other boys boy's name was I not obtained by Bleak As the Cross boy ed from I behind a westbound truck driven I bv by George Smith North Ninth 1 I West street he darted in iii front of oC Bleak's machine also traveling I west Both drivers st stopped and I Smith helped Bleak place the In Injured injured injured in- in I boy in his automobile Cross was rushed to the emergency emergency emergency emer emer- gency hospital where his injuries were pronounced extremely serous serous' seri ser ous ous' Mr Cross who was working at Elt atthe atthe the rear of or his home a half block from where the accident happened was u-as notified of or the accident by neighbors and immediately went to the hospital |