Newspapers: Car Accident; surnames - Fiero, Myers, Minard, Buckmaster, Sweeny.

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MYERS, Samuel Austin, Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune,
Wednesday, 2 January 1918, p. 6 -- Couple Sustain Serious Injury
>From Automobile -- As the result of being struck by the automobile
driven by A. Couro Fiero a few minutes after 6 o'clock Monday
evening on the Pacific highway near Central Point, Mr. and Mrs.
Austin Myers are patients at the Sacred Heart hospital, the former
with a fractured skull and with even chances for recovery, and the
latter suffering from shock.

The accident occurred within 150 yards of the main street in
Central Point and investigation as to its cause holds Mr. Fiero
blameless.

He was driving from Medford to his home and had slowed down to
ten or twelve miles an hour to make the turn into Central Point.
Blinded by the glare of an approaching Ford, whose lights were
undimmed, he did not see Mr. and Mrs. Myers until close upon
them. Fiero turned sharply to avoid running over the pedestrians
and collided with the approaching Ford, driven by Mr. Minard of
Medford, the impact hurling his car so as to strike both Mr. and
Mrs. Myers and hurl them into the ditch, while Mr. Buckmaster,
who was a passenger in the Minard car, was thrown through the
windshield, sustaining cuts and bruises. Neither Mr. Fiero, his wife,
nor Miss Emily Fiero, who were in the car with him, were injured.

Mr. Fiero stopped his car within forty feet of the scene of the
accident and aided in picking up the injured people, who were
taken to Faber's drug store and Dr. Charles T. Sweeny of Medford
was summoned to care for their injuries, after which they were
removed to the Sacred Heart hospital. Up to this afternoon Mr.
Myers was still unconscious and his condition is critical, although
in a general way he had improved this morning.

While Mrs. Myers' condition is not serious, she is quite ill with
shock from lying in a pool of water for some time after the accident
before she was found. She had been in poor health for some time
past and suffering with nervousness.

Fiero had Warner lenses on his headlights and it is thought that
the Myers were blinded by the brighter lights of the approaching
Minard car and did not notice the Fiero car coming from behind.
They were occupying a half of the paved road, although there was a
cement sidewalk alongside.