The emergency room of Middletown Hospital last night released five uninjured passengers of a wrecked automobile, but the nurse wouldn't let them go. Instead, two wide mattresses were spread on the hospital floor at 2 a.m., and Fred, 12, Joan, 6, George, 5, Elfreeda, 4, and Alice-Marie, 3, went to sleep. The five brothers and sisters were riding home last night with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coomer of 4804 Lincoln Ave., Detroit, when their car collided with a steel-loaded truck on U.S. 25, two miles north of Monroe at 10:35 p.m. Their father, 32, with a cut over his eye; their mother, Mavis, 27, with abrasions of her face and knees, plus stomach and chest pains; and the truck driver Elmer R. Fabery, 46, of Dayton, with lacerations and bruises of the head, were brought to the hospital. And there was no place else to put the youngsters...

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