"In one of the county's worst automobile accidents, three persons in the same family were killed, another seriously injured, and the driver, a relative, remains in serious condition. The dead, Mrs. Lila Sweet, 28, of Powersburg, and two of her children, Helen, 3, and Philip 5.
Another of Mrs. Carter's children, Carolyn, 8, is now in the Monticello Clinic Hospital with a broken left leg, severe cuts, and a possible broken jaw. The driver, Ralph Sweet, 20, brother of Mrs. Carter, is in the Somerset City Hospital. He suffered a punctured bladder, a compound fracture of the left leg, and severe head injuries. He was at first in an oxygen tent, but has now been removed, and his condition now is listed as fair.
Sweet, who was in the Navy, stationed at Norfolk, Virginia, was home on leave. He was taking his sister and her children to Monticello for groceries when the accident occurred.
The accident happened at about 2:30 Saturday afternoon on the Hidalgo-Powersburg road, about 12 miles south of Monticello. The car, a 1949 Ford, was going north, toward Monticello, and failed to make a curve, and smashed into a sycamore tree shearing the top off the car. Persons in the vicinity of the accident who saw the car just before the mishap, said it was traveling at a moderate rate of speed. The car apparently completely out of control, was completely demolished.
A Powersburg man, Joe Bryan Hancock, one of the first to reach the scene of the accident, said Mrs. Carter and her 3-year-old daughter apparently were killed instantly. He said the 5-year-old boy, who was pinned in the wreck, died a few minutes after the crash. A tractor from a nearby farm had to be brought to the scene, and the car pulled back from the tree, so the occupants could be taken out. The bodies were then taken to the Richard Lee Funeral Home in Monticello, and the survivors, the 8-year-old girl, taken to the Monticello Clinic Hospital in Monticello, and the driver of the car, Ralph Sweet, to the Somerset City Hospital.
Mrs. Carter lived with relatives near Powersburg. Her husband, Nelson Carter, works in Detroit. Sandra Lane Carter, 2, another daughter, was not involved in the accident. Other survivors include Mrs. Carter's father, Voida Sweet, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, five other brothers, Walter and Lawrence Sweet, Powersburg, Bud and James Sweet, Cincinnati, and Ray Sweet, and a sister, Mrs. Truman Johnson, both of Greenfield, Indiana.
Joint funeral services were held Monday in Pulaski County at 2:30 p.m. at New Hope Church, near Somerset. Burial was in the Church Cemetery."
From The Wayne County Outlook, Monticello, Kentucky - Thursday, July 4, 1957.
Another of Mrs. Carter's children, Carolyn, 8, is now in the Monticello Clinic Hospital with a broken left leg, severe cuts, and a possible broken jaw. The driver, Ralph Sweet, 20, brother of Mrs. Carter, is in the Somerset City Hospital. He suffered a punctured bladder, a compound fracture of the left leg, and severe head injuries. He was at first in an oxygen tent, but has now been removed, and his condition now is listed as fair.
Sweet, who was in the Navy, stationed at Norfolk, Virginia, was home on leave. He was taking his sister and her children to Monticello for groceries when the accident occurred.
The accident happened at about 2:30 Saturday afternoon on the Hidalgo-Powersburg road, about 12 miles south of Monticello. The car, a 1949 Ford, was going north, toward Monticello, and failed to make a curve, and smashed into a sycamore tree shearing the top off the car. Persons in the vicinity of the accident who saw the car just before the mishap, said it was traveling at a moderate rate of speed. The car apparently completely out of control, was completely demolished.
A Powersburg man, Joe Bryan Hancock, one of the first to reach the scene of the accident, said Mrs. Carter and her 3-year-old daughter apparently were killed instantly. He said the 5-year-old boy, who was pinned in the wreck, died a few minutes after the crash. A tractor from a nearby farm had to be brought to the scene, and the car pulled back from the tree, so the occupants could be taken out. The bodies were then taken to the Richard Lee Funeral Home in Monticello, and the survivors, the 8-year-old girl, taken to the Monticello Clinic Hospital in Monticello, and the driver of the car, Ralph Sweet, to the Somerset City Hospital.
Mrs. Carter lived with relatives near Powersburg. Her husband, Nelson Carter, works in Detroit. Sandra Lane Carter, 2, another daughter, was not involved in the accident. Other survivors include Mrs. Carter's father, Voida Sweet, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, five other brothers, Walter and Lawrence Sweet, Powersburg, Bud and James Sweet, Cincinnati, and Ray Sweet, and a sister, Mrs. Truman Johnson, both of Greenfield, Indiana.
Joint funeral services were held Monday in Pulaski County at 2:30 p.m. at New Hope Church, near Somerset. Burial was in the Church Cemetery."
From The Wayne County Outlook, Monticello, Kentucky - Thursday, July 4, 1957.
"In one of the county's worst automobile accidents, three persons in the same family were killed, another seriously injured, and the driver, a relative, remains in serious condition. The dead, Mrs. Lila Sweet, 28, of Powersburg, and two of her children, Helen, 3, and Philip 5.
Another of Mrs. Carter's children, Carolyn, 8, is now in the Monticello Clinic Hospital with a broken left leg, severe cuts, and a possible broken jaw. The driver, Ralph Sweet, 20, brother of Mrs. Carter, is in the Somerset City Hospital. He suffered a punctured bladder, a compound fracture of the left leg, and severe head injuries. He was at first in an oxygen tent, but has now been removed, and his condition now is listed as fair.
Sweet, who was in the Navy, stationed at Norfolk, Virginia, was home on leave. He was taking his sister and her children to Monticello for groceries when the accident occurred.
The accident happened at about 2:30 Saturday afternoon on the Hidalgo-Powersburg road, about 12 miles south of Monticello. The car, a 1949 Ford, was going north, toward Monticello, and failed to make a curve, and smashed into a sycamore tree shearing the top off the car. Persons in the vicinity of the accident who saw the car just before the mishap, said it was traveling at a moderate rate of speed. The car apparently completely out of control, was completely demolished.
A Powersburg man, Joe Bryan Hancock, one of the first to reach the scene of the accident, said Mrs. Carter and her 3-year-old daughter apparently were killed instantly. He said the 5-year-old boy, who was pinned in the wreck, died a few minutes after the crash. A tractor from a nearby farm had to be brought to the scene, and the car pulled back from the tree, so the occupants could be taken out. The bodies were then taken to the Richard Lee Funeral Home in Monticello, and the survivors, the 8-year-old girl, taken to the Monticello Clinic Hospital in Monticello, and the driver of the car, Ralph Sweet, to the Somerset City Hospital.
Mrs. Carter lived with relatives near Powersburg. Her husband, Nelson Carter, works in Detroit. Sandra Lane Carter, 2, another daughter, was not involved in the accident. Other survivors include Mrs. Carter's father, Voida Sweet, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, five other brothers, Walter and Lawrence Sweet, Powersburg, Bud and James Sweet, Cincinnati, and Ray Sweet, and a sister, Mrs. Truman Johnson, both of Greenfield, Indiana.
Joint funeral services were held Monday in Pulaski County at 2:30 p.m. at New Hope Church, near Somerset. Burial was in the Church Cemetery."
From The Wayne County Outlook, Monticello, Kentucky - Thursday, July 4, 1957.
Another of Mrs. Carter's children, Carolyn, 8, is now in the Monticello Clinic Hospital with a broken left leg, severe cuts, and a possible broken jaw. The driver, Ralph Sweet, 20, brother of Mrs. Carter, is in the Somerset City Hospital. He suffered a punctured bladder, a compound fracture of the left leg, and severe head injuries. He was at first in an oxygen tent, but has now been removed, and his condition now is listed as fair.
Sweet, who was in the Navy, stationed at Norfolk, Virginia, was home on leave. He was taking his sister and her children to Monticello for groceries when the accident occurred.
The accident happened at about 2:30 Saturday afternoon on the Hidalgo-Powersburg road, about 12 miles south of Monticello. The car, a 1949 Ford, was going north, toward Monticello, and failed to make a curve, and smashed into a sycamore tree shearing the top off the car. Persons in the vicinity of the accident who saw the car just before the mishap, said it was traveling at a moderate rate of speed. The car apparently completely out of control, was completely demolished.
A Powersburg man, Joe Bryan Hancock, one of the first to reach the scene of the accident, said Mrs. Carter and her 3-year-old daughter apparently were killed instantly. He said the 5-year-old boy, who was pinned in the wreck, died a few minutes after the crash. A tractor from a nearby farm had to be brought to the scene, and the car pulled back from the tree, so the occupants could be taken out. The bodies were then taken to the Richard Lee Funeral Home in Monticello, and the survivors, the 8-year-old girl, taken to the Monticello Clinic Hospital in Monticello, and the driver of the car, Ralph Sweet, to the Somerset City Hospital.
Mrs. Carter lived with relatives near Powersburg. Her husband, Nelson Carter, works in Detroit. Sandra Lane Carter, 2, another daughter, was not involved in the accident. Other survivors include Mrs. Carter's father, Voida Sweet, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, five other brothers, Walter and Lawrence Sweet, Powersburg, Bud and James Sweet, Cincinnati, and Ray Sweet, and a sister, Mrs. Truman Johnson, both of Greenfield, Indiana.
Joint funeral services were held Monday in Pulaski County at 2:30 p.m. at New Hope Church, near Somerset. Burial was in the Church Cemetery."
From The Wayne County Outlook, Monticello, Kentucky - Thursday, July 4, 1957.
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