This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: French Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/2200 Message Board Post: 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.