| Show BAILEYS FACE DEATH FROM ONE OME EYED AUTO while returning from del rio is february 23 J M Y bailey accompanied compa nied by his son and daughter kenneth R and geene vier of monticello experienced a provident providential iol escape from what could easily have been a dreadful fatality about 5 A M twenty five miles east of gallup new mexico the baileys traveling in a new pickup pick up coming west saw a car with only one head light coming toward them kenneth was driving the bailey vehicle and while it was not discernable discernible discern able whether the one light on the approaching car indicated inside or outside margin mr bailey took no chances and ad allowed plenty of room for passing when suddenly it swerved to the left in a desperate second mr bailey cut to the extreme idge edge L of the grade just as the other car struck his left front wheel el buckling it under the frame breaking his steering gear shearing both left fenders and running board breaking springs and knocking the left rear wheel completely from under the pickup pick up both machines were ruined the baileys unscathed emerged erner ged framl from their wreckage and went to see what had happened to the driver of the caran old model sedan As they approached they saw a man running from the scene and disappearing in the darkness investigating closer they saw another man in the rear seat startlingly aroused from sleep by the impact but unharmed who said he be even know the name of the vanished driver ile he had bought gas anil and oil in payment for his passage to a distant town and had bad not asked the name of the man with whom he be was riding later kenneth caught a ride into gallup where lie he made report to highway police accompanying two or of them back to the scene of the accident the police wired to towns along the route to be on the lookout for the fleeing man but as far as is known no word has been heard of him yet it is concluded that thai he had fallen asleep just before the smashup and in startled fright had fled in drowsy horror of disaster kenneth and his sister caught rides to monticello their father remaining a day or two in gallup where he found it necessary to purchase another car in sequence of having just graduated from monticello high school miss bailey had accompanied her ber father and brother to del rio in pleasurable celebration but the near death accident took most of the joy out of the trip |
