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Show Clarion Boy Hurt In Auto Wreck iiilmo Lund, the 15-year -old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Lund of Clarion, is confined to his home today and he is nursing several bad wounds he secured last night when he was catapulted cata-pulted through the windshield of the Lund automobile. Elmo received a long gash on the top of the head, one on the forehead, a deep one on the cheek and one of his ears was badly cut and be was otherwise bruis ed- Dr. .Hagan, who attended the injured boy, stated that it required several stitches to close the cuts. Elmo, accompanied by an older brother and four other boy friends, were returning home from a dance and when near the home of Joseph Chistensen, just west of town, the car ran off the end of a bridge. Elmo was sitting on the lap of a friend Und when the car went into the ditch he was thrown violently ahead and through the windshield, shattering the heavy glass, sustaining -the injuries in-juries as above stated. None of the other passangers were hurt and escaped with slight bruises and a shock. It was late, and according to the statements of the lads, the driver had fell asleep, and the car, without a guide, leaped into the ditch. The machine was badly wrecked and in addition to breaking the winshield, the steering wheel was twisted from its moorings, the fender and front part of the car was almost reduced to "junk." |