Mr. and Mrs. Grady Simpson Not Expected to Survive Car Accident, Feb. 8, 1926

Five Persons Hurt in Auto Accident at Locust Sunday. . . Two of the Injured, Mr. and Mrs. Grady Simpson, Are Not Expected to Recover. . . Two Women Not Seriously Hurt. . . All of the Occupants of the Car Were Carried to a Hospital in Albemarle. . . Car Hit by Cotton Truck

Albemarle, N.C., Feb. 8 (AP)—Five persons were in a local hospital today, two of them believed fatally injured following an automobile accident near Locust in Stanly County yesterday.

Grady Simpson and Mrs. Grady Simpson are not expected to recover, while R.L. Barbee, another occupant of the Simpson machine, is in a serious condition. Misses Alice and Arlie Smith, two other members of the party, received minor cuts.

The accident occurred when the automobile was struck by a cotton truck, said to have been of Gastonia. The driver and owner of the truck, however, are unknown.

From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Feb. 8, 1926

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