From The Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pennsylvania)
June 21, 1935 

FORMER DAWSON
PEOPLE INJURED
IN TRIPLE WRECK
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   Alva J. Gilliland, 65 years old, and wife, Mrs. Emma Gilliland, 60 years old, of Charleroi, and Mr. Gilliland’s sister, Miss Cora Belle Gilliland of Los Angeles, Cal., all former Dawson residents, are patients at the Washington Hospital, Washington, Pa., for treatment of injuries suffered Tuesday afternoon in a three-car automobile collision on Route 31, about three miles east of Washington.
   Mrs. Gilliland was the most seriously injured and is in a critical condition. She suffered fractures of the left arm and left leg, a fracture of the collar bone and lacerations over most of her body. She is suffering from shock, also. Mr. Gilliland suffered lacerations on the head and arms and body bruises, Miss Gilliland lacerations of the right leg and a compound fracture of a finger. Mr. Gilliland was driving the machine.
   J. Scott Gilmore of Denver, Colo., who is visiting at the home of his mother, Mrs. J. L. Gilmore of East Fairview avenue, and his sister, Miss Beulah Gilmore, motored to Washington Wednesday to visit the injured. Mr. Gilliland and Miss Gilliland are brother-in-law and sister-in-law of Mr. Gilmore. Miss Gilliland is a former operator for the Bell Telephone company at Dawson.
   Two of the occupants of the other machines were slightly injured.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010