The wreckage of Will Ennis’ automobile on the roadway above Chattanooga. Two men are on the roadway. The man at right is Fred Patterson. The Ennis vehicle crashed on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 1921. Photo courtesy of San Juan County Historical Society
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Early Wednesday morning, a Dodge touring car driven by William Ennis of this city left the road on the D.S.O. highway at a point above the Ledge mill site, near Chattanooga. The accident was probably caused by defective steering apparatus. The car rolled for a distance of several hundred feet from one switchback to another. Dennis Kelley, a cook, aged 68, suffered a compound fracture in one of his…