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AUTO COLLISION: AT SAN DIEGO Party Were Automobiling in San Monday “When” Collision ‘Occurred. Resulting in the Death of Mrs. Hudson , Mrs. Helen R. Hudson, aged 74 years, of ‘Los Angeles, for many Years a resident of Corona,’ was killed..and several others injured Monday morning, when a ‘high:pow ered, automobile, sight-seeing car, collided with a heavy gasoline motor car, ‘at a grade crossing on the La Jolla railroad, a little out of San Mrs. Hudson was the mother-in-law ob. Hibbard, superintendent of the Santa Fe Coast lines. Her daughter, Mrs. Hibbard, is among the injured. Mrs. Hudson was cut about the head and received internal injur ies.’At first, the doctors at the San Diego hospital held out hope that she might recover, but the shock was too much for one of her advanced age and she died at 10:39 p. m. From the Associated Press ‘reports neither the automobile nor the motor car was going at a high rate of speed. Both traveled neck and neck for quite a distance. As the grade-cross ing was neared, the man in charge of the motor car supposed the chauf feur would slow up. Instead the lat ter attempted to press the railroad track ahead, but was not quick enough to avoid a collision. The automobiles which happened to be following the luckless machine, picked up the three most seriously injured and rushed them to the hos pital. The motor car in the mean time proceeded to the next stop, ‘structions, under which he ran his car back to the scene of the accident, picked up the other four injured and conveyed them part ‘way to San Diego, the motor car being intercept ed at the city limits with automobiles containing physicians and nurses. Superintendent Hibbard of the Santa Fe was in the back country when the news of the accident hwas telephoned him. ‘He made a record run in an automobile to the hospital. The accident appears to have been due to the lack of experience of the chauffeur. McCann is a youth of 13, who “has been driving automobiles only a fortnight or so. He received a bad injury on the head and Mon day night was delirious, partly from shock and partly from his wound. ‘The supposition is that he thought he had time to cross the La Jolla railway track ahead of the ‘motor car, or that the latter would slow down for him. The funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Boule vard home of Mrs. BE. L. S. Joy, sis ter of the late Mr. Hudson. The last words for the departed being said by Rev. B. B. Jacques, pastor of the Baptist church of this city, in which church Mrs. Hudson had so long been an active worker. The service was largely attended by local, and out-of-town ,friends. Forty-five persons, including Santa Fe railroad officials and Los An geles friends and relatives came down in two special coaches attached to the noon train. The ‘Aloral pieces from local and distant friends were so numerousg it required two express wagons to carry them to the ceme tery. (Continued..on Page Six)
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Corona Courier
Corona, California, US
Sat, Jul 24, 1909
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