Roby Everhart, aged 15, son of Mrs. Nettie Everhart of near Ebenezer, was very seriously injured Sunday morning when pinned beneath an overturned automobile on the Ebenezer-Arnold Road. It was at first thought that his injuries might terminate fatally, but at a late hour last night the youth was resting very well and hopes are entertained for his recovery.
Clarence Easter, driver of the car, a brother of Easter and a youth named Hepler received slight injuries in the same accident. The machine, a Ford touring car, ran over the side of a fill some distance west of the home of Woodrow McKay and turned over on the side when it struck the fill of a farm road turning off into a meadow.
The injured youth was taken to his home not far from the scene of the wreck and physicians were called from Lexington. His body was pinned beneath the car, which rested across his shoulders, and there was evidence of considerable injury about the shoulders and chest.
The four boys are said to have been on their way to Sunday school at Beulah church, and the car was drifting down the hill at what people living nearby said was a moderate rate of speed. Suddenly something went wrong with the car and Easter jammed on the brakes, but this did not avail to prevent it form going over the fill. When the wrecked car was removed, it was found that part of the radius rod was missing and it was reported that someone had found a piece of rod lying in the road some distance above where the car turned over. This controls the steering of the car, and its breakage is held responsible for the wreck.
Another automobile also wrecked between Ebenezer and Welcome Sunday morning but so far as learned no one was injured. This machine is said to have belonged to a man named Womack, of this city.
From the front page of The Dispatch, Lexington, N.C., April 3, 1922
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