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LLEO, RESULT OF ACCIDENTlt;Probably Fatal Acci dent in City Late SaturdayLIMB CRUSHED BY LIGHT POLEMrs. Alice Wade, Near Soso, Victim, May Die.snthe l at theiced3akLimans,i.rdi-aniownces,sug.'VCT‘mn-Oak heir ling d it let-)Mrs. Alice Wade, 45, residing two miles north of Soso, is lying | fi at the point of death in the laurel General hospital, as a result of injuries sustained in an accident yesterday evening at 5:30 o’clock at Fifteenth street and Seventh avenue, Laurel.At midnight the left leg of the injured woman was amputated just above the knee in the hope of saving her life. Her condition is reported as precarious.The woman had come to Laurel on a truck from the farm of J. W. Moss, who farms on an extensive scale near her home. The truck makes regular trips to Laurel to secure provisions for the tenants and others employed on the Moss farm.While at the above point in re-turimng home, something went wrong with the gears according to the driver, \Lem Wordsworth^ and the truck started to backMmvn an incline.Mrs. Wade, becoming frightened, started to jump from the vehicle. She threw her leg over the side of the truck preparatory to leaping from it, when it came in contact with a light pole and the member was almost crushed off between the pole and fender of the truck.The woman was hurried to the hospital and physicians and surgeons have been making a desperate effort to‘save her* life since.Mrs. Wade is a widow, having seven children living and two dead. She is a well known resident of the Soso neighborhood,, having lived there for a number of years.R. C. Jenkins, of the Soso neighborhood, who was on the rear of the truck, jumped from the vehicle and his left hand was badly lacerated by a protruding nail. His injuries were dressed at the hospital. He stated that the injuries to Mrs. Wade were the most dismissing he had ever witnessed.-o-
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Laurel Morning Call
Laurel, Mississippi, US
Sun, Sep 15, 1929
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