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Show AUTO RUNS DOWN CHILD Pittsburg, July 4. Several hundred school children assembling on the streets of West Pittsburg, preparing for the school parade, part of the day s festivities, were scattered by an un controlled automobile that plunged through the crowd. John Gronawalt, aged 4. was killed, and 12 others ranging in age from s to 11 were knockea down be Yuengllng, aged 25, the driver of the car, was roughly handled by the mothers of some of the children They almost stripped him of clothing. The home of Dr. M. U. Stoneman, almost directly at the scene of the tragedy, was turned into a temporary hospital, where the children were a ken and their injuries dressed Tb9 Injuries consisted of bruises and scratches with one suffering a broken bro-ken arm Yuengling was arrested He said that while coming down the steep grade approaching the group of chil dren his brakes would not work and that he lost his nerve and let go the steering wheel. In the car with him were four women and another man |