Barbara Alice Blackwood

BLACKWOOD CHILD HURT NEAR MACON

Family on Way to Kansas - Car Goes Over Bank

(Special to the Herald

Shelbyville, MO., Sept. 18

A wire from Kansas City, Sunday, stated that surgeons had advised removal of the left eye of little Mary Alice (Barbara Alice), three year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.T. Blackwood, who was injured in an automobile accident near Macon Saturday. The wire was received by a brother of Mr. Blackwood, T.D. Blackwood, living near Shelbyville who the Kansas relatives had been visiting.

Weeds Caused Accident.

Macon, MO, Sept. 18

Weeds on the roadside were the cause of a pathetic accident near here about 9:30 o’clock Saturday morning. Mr. and Mrs. E.T. Blackwood and their two children, Billy 5 and Mary Alice, 3, were in a car going west on the cross-country highway. Their destination being Chanute, KS where they live.

When they reached the Salt River bridge, three miles east of town they encountered another car, going east. The driver of the east-bound car stopped and Blackwood, attempting to drive around him got into some weeds on the roadside that concealed the edge of a sharp declivity. The Blackwood car turned over, smashing the windshield. A fragment of the glass penetrated the little girl’s left eye, causing severe pain. Another piece of glass cut Billy’s ear in two and inflicted a deep gash back of the ear but he was not dangerously hurt.

A Macon physician attended to the little girl and then she was hurried to Kansas City on a Burlington train. A telegram was sent to a Kansas City eye specialist to be ready for an immediate examination.

The Blackwoods had been visiting relatives at LaGrange, MO. Blackwood says he was not driving over ten miles an hour.

The Blackwoods, Mr. and Mrs. E.T. and two children and Mr. and Mrs. Chester D Blackwood, all of Chanute, KS were on their way home Saturday when the accident occurred near Macon. They had been visiting relatives here and at LaGrange and had attended the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the wedding of Mr. and Mrs.B.F. Blackwood, the parents of the two Kansas men. Friday night was spent with a brother near Shelbyville.

After the accident, the children were rushed to Macon in Chester Blackwood’s coupe where medical attention was given. It was deemed necessary to take the girl to a Kansas City hospital at once. Both families left their motor cars and went to Kansas by rail. The coupe was brought to Shelbyville by T.D. Blackwood who will drive to Kansas later. The wrecked machine, which was driven by E.T. Blackwood, was taken to a garage in Macon. At the time of the accident T.D. Blackwood was on his way to the Olds Settlers’ reunion at Shelyville. He rushed at once to Macon.

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