Show narrow escape for bigelow and cottam john 11 cottam cottain and chas H bigelow BS gelow secy of the arrowhead trails had a narrow escape from death or serious injury wednesday through the rear axle of cot tams ford breaking while en route to chanab kanab to meet with state engineer mcgonagle and B J finch district engineer of the bureau of public roads cottam was driving and when leaving la Ver kiri near ludd Judd s place the rear axle of his car broke he ile was unaware of this until he tried to apply the brakes on descending the hill going toward the bridge across the virgin irgin v river his ills car gained momentum going down hill and disaster threatened bigelow seeing this J from the cn f nd was either struck by a rear wheel or it went over him he Is not sure which and he received a badly bruised knee cottam cottain stuck to the car and by cool and skilful driving managed to get it across the dugway to the bridge without plunging down into the canyon just before reaching the bridge the off hind wheel and part of the broken axle left the ar and plunged down the canyon coltan copt reducing the speed ct of the car by running it lightly into the bank on the right of the road thereby avoiding a serious ending to the runaway they returned to this city where mr M r bigelow is nursing his leg |