Deseret Evening News | 1910-09-24 | Page 1 | Auto Plunges into Canal at New Orleans

AUTO PLUNGES INTO CANAL AT NEW ORLEANS LEANS nt at on Shell lel Went ent Into Water nur Six or nr Seven People New ew Orleans Kept 4 Six persons are ar believed lovd to 10 have been drowned when a largo larlo touring car returning from rom West eBI End a n t lake hike lk resort to N New w V Orleans this morning ran rn off orf or the th road toad crashed through a it n fence nd foil fell tel Into Inlo a canal One of 01 tho the bodies recovered and ald Identified Is that of nf John Freeman of ot Now Nf York City c lie Ito was a a n travel traveling ing ng salesman for tor a o Now Nv ew York company The car CRI left End Ed Shortly before daylight and Is II to have had six Ix or seven occupants o Walters Valters aler at R I a n aVest nel West Vest el End In restaurant said ld that tho the ear clr wo WM driven by h Thomas homAI Bolter an automobile former proprietor I of ot the Oak Olk hotel In New No Orleans Ha Ifa Halad I had lad two women omen and three or four men menns menas ns nB his hll guests Ket A workman passing along the shell Rhel road ond which connects New w Orleans with wih ho tho West eRt End Ind and which h runs rune parallel with what Ls La known lie as Il the new nt basis bl la canal said raid the Ih cop car CD was running at such sucha n a high rate rae of speed cd that h hf he could not ace ce how many mR it contained A few fow ro seconds Inter ho he wild said the car swerved Broll to 10 on one Bid side tf f the road and plunged Into the canal H J fla ran to In toward toward ward the spot pol Rod and made mad out nut the th figure ligure or of f one on man nuan mon attempting to 10 swIm ashore a hore but before rore ho coul r reach ach the bank tho the thoman theroan roan man sunk sank Apparatus belonging to a wrecking company was II taken Ink n to the tho canal The Tho car nr was W hoisted hol lcd And divers sent down don donIn In n nn Rn effort to recover the bodies That Thi nf or Freemen Freeman Mute first found loiter Later those thoo of o and nd nn an unidentified woman apparently 25 5 years ears old 11 wort 01