Garfield Enterprise Obituary
He suffered a broken leg in an auto accident almost two weeks prior to his death. Death was caused by a blood clot on the brain due to the irregular bleeding, it is thought, of one of the broken arteries of the leg. It is surmised that the deceased may have suffered from internal injuries also from the auto accident."
The newspaper article of the auto accident states:
Last Saturday night at about eleven o'clock Ernest McCall, who had several members of the Corbett family, including L.E. Corbett, town marshal, in his auto, met with a serious accident on the road between here and Farmington. The clutch of the machine broke and Mr. McCall got out of the car to adjust it, and in some way there was an accidental release of the spring that controlled the gas feed, with the result that the engine was given a full head of gas. The machine immediately leaped forward and McCall endeavored to leap on the running board, for no one in the machine was familiar with the driving of it. He slipped, however, and the open door of the machine struck him, knocking him down and the hind wheel passed over the the lower part of a leg, bruising him considerably. The chief sufferer, however, was Marshall Corbett. When the car lurched forward he either jumped or was thrown fromt he car, sustaining a compound fracture of the lower leg. Delmar Corbett, who was in the car, finally got the car stopped with but slight damage to it and wite safety to the other occupants. Mr. Corbett was brought home and, upon examination, the larger bone of the lower leg was found to be broken in two places and the smaller bone broken once. No blame for carelessness is attached to anyone. It was of the class of accidents that occur which no human power can forestall.
He suffered a broken leg in an auto accident almost two weeks prior to his death. Death was caused by a blood clot on the brain due to the irregular bleeding, it is thought, of one of the broken arteries of the leg. It is surmised that the deceased may have suffered from internal injuries also from the auto accident."
The newspaper article of the auto accident states:
Last Saturday night at about eleven o'clock Ernest McCall, who had several members of the Corbett family, including L.E. Corbett, town marshal, in his auto, met with a serious accident on the road between here and Farmington. The clutch of the machine broke and Mr. McCall got out of the car to adjust it, and in some way there was an accidental release of the spring that controlled the gas feed, with the result that the engine was given a full head of gas. The machine immediately leaped forward and McCall endeavored to leap on the running board, for no one in the machine was familiar with the driving of it. He slipped, however, and the open door of the machine struck him, knocking him down and the hind wheel passed over the the lower part of a leg, bruising him considerably. The chief sufferer, however, was Marshall Corbett. When the car lurched forward he either jumped or was thrown fromt he car, sustaining a compound fracture of the lower leg. Delmar Corbett, who was in the car, finally got the car stopped with but slight damage to it and wite safety to the other occupants. Mr. Corbett was brought home and, upon examination, the larger bone of the lower leg was found to be broken in two places and the smaller bone broken once. No blame for carelessness is attached to anyone. It was of the class of accidents that occur which no human power can forestall.
Garfield Enterprise Obituary
He suffered a broken leg in an auto accident almost two weeks prior to his death. Death was caused by a blood clot on the brain due to the irregular bleeding, it is thought, of one of the broken arteries of the leg. It is surmised that the deceased may have suffered from internal injuries also from the auto accident."
The newspaper article of the auto accident states:
Last Saturday night at about eleven o'clock Ernest McCall, who had several members of the Corbett family, including L.E. Corbett, town marshal, in his auto, met with a serious accident on the road between here and Farmington. The clutch of the machine broke and Mr. McCall got out of the car to adjust it, and in some way there was an accidental release of the spring that controlled the gas feed, with the result that the engine was given a full head of gas. The machine immediately leaped forward and McCall endeavored to leap on the running board, for no one in the machine was familiar with the driving of it. He slipped, however, and the open door of the machine struck him, knocking him down and the hind wheel passed over the the lower part of a leg, bruising him considerably. The chief sufferer, however, was Marshall Corbett. When the car lurched forward he either jumped or was thrown fromt he car, sustaining a compound fracture of the lower leg. Delmar Corbett, who was in the car, finally got the car stopped with but slight damage to it and wite safety to the other occupants. Mr. Corbett was brought home and, upon examination, the larger bone of the lower leg was found to be broken in two places and the smaller bone broken once. No blame for carelessness is attached to anyone. It was of the class of accidents that occur which no human power can forestall.
He suffered a broken leg in an auto accident almost two weeks prior to his death. Death was caused by a blood clot on the brain due to the irregular bleeding, it is thought, of one of the broken arteries of the leg. It is surmised that the deceased may have suffered from internal injuries also from the auto accident."
The newspaper article of the auto accident states:
Last Saturday night at about eleven o'clock Ernest McCall, who had several members of the Corbett family, including L.E. Corbett, town marshal, in his auto, met with a serious accident on the road between here and Farmington. The clutch of the machine broke and Mr. McCall got out of the car to adjust it, and in some way there was an accidental release of the spring that controlled the gas feed, with the result that the engine was given a full head of gas. The machine immediately leaped forward and McCall endeavored to leap on the running board, for no one in the machine was familiar with the driving of it. He slipped, however, and the open door of the machine struck him, knocking him down and the hind wheel passed over the the lower part of a leg, bruising him considerably. The chief sufferer, however, was Marshall Corbett. When the car lurched forward he either jumped or was thrown fromt he car, sustaining a compound fracture of the lower leg. Delmar Corbett, who was in the car, finally got the car stopped with but slight damage to it and wite safety to the other occupants. Mr. Corbett was brought home and, upon examination, the larger bone of the lower leg was found to be broken in two places and the smaller bone broken once. No blame for carelessness is attached to anyone. It was of the class of accidents that occur which no human power can forestall.
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