Lake View, S.C., Aug. 1—Grady Hayes and Ab Herring, both of the Marietta community, had a miraculous escape from death at a late hour Saturday night when the Ford coupe in which they were riding took a 25-foot plunge into Page’s Mill pond, near this place.
Investigation of the cause of the wreck revealed today that the two men were rounding a sharp curve in the road coming into Lake View and that their car was going at such a rate of speed that it was unable to take the curve. One wheel went off the edge of the embankment and remained off it for a distance of several feet before striking a piece of the bridge across Page’s Mill pond and taking the 25-foot plunge over several cypress knees into the midst of the mill race. The car was buried on its nose in the mud and was almost a complete wreck. Hayes and Herring were found by people passing by and given medical attrition, after which they were taken to their homes. Injuries to neither were not of a serious nature, consisting mostly of bruises and scratches. The car remained in the ill pond all day today, and man people who came there to see the wreck marveled at the narrow escape from death the two men had.
The car was said to belong to Hayes and was driven by Herring at the time of the wreck.
Editor’s Note: A mill race is a channel or current of water that directs flow to and from a water wheel to power a mill.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Aug. 2, 1926
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