Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....French, Infant 1922
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New Plymouth Sentinel 8-3-1922
New Plymouth Sentinel
New Plymouth, Idaho
Thursday, August 3, 1922
 
FRENCH FAMILY MEETS DISASTER
 
Baby Fatally Injured in Auto Accident on Way Home
 
The Fred French family on their return trip from Chicago met misfortune near 
Medora, North Dakota when a front wheel of their "house on wheels" collapsed.  
Mrs. Fred French with her sleeping babe in arms and Mrs. C. S. French were 
thrown to the ground.  The baby was fatally injured and the mother received a 
severe cut over the eye.  The grandmother was injured about the face and 
probably has a broken leg.  Other members of the family received minor 
injuries.
 
The accident happened at a place forty miles from a doctor, minister or 
undertaker, but tourists, settlers and a traveling health clinic gave aid to 
the family.  According to a letter from Mrs. C. S. French received by Mrs. Leo 
Schmidt Monday, they are receiving splendid treatment by their new friends.
 
They were traveling about 10 miles an hour when the accident happened and the 
car did not turn over.  The French's have the sympathy of a host of friends in 
the vicinity of New Plymouth.
 
A clipping from a North Dakota paper sent by Mrs. Walker Burke says the brakes 
on the car failed to hold it in descending a long hill.  The car gained such a 
speed that Mr. French could not mesh gears in order to use the engine as a 
brake and gained so much momentum it was impossible to make the turn at the 
foot of the hill, plunged from the grade and overturned with the terrible 
results as related above.

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