Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1910 — PLOVER HUNT COMES TO A SUDDEN CONCLUSION. [ARTICLE]

PLOVER HUNT COMES TO A SUDDEN CONCLUSION.

Overland Auto Throws Quartet in Ditch Without Serious Injuries Except to the Machine. Harry Eger, Harry Parker, Frank Bicknell and Jack Montgomery escaped fortunately and algnost miraculously serious injury this Tuesday morning when the Overland automobilo driven by the former cut some peculiar didos just below the sand ridge, 6 miles south of town, spilled its iiuman cargo into the ditch and •pitched over on its side. Eger, Parker and Bicknell were en route for a plover hunt and Montgomery was on his way to Wolcott on telephone business. Eger had not had very much experience as a driver, having only had the car about two weeks. He was running, Mr. Montgomery thinks at about 20 or 25 miles an hour and turned slightly to avoid a rut in the road. He turned it too far and abruptly turned it back and it ran to the side of the road and as he went to turn it back one of the rear wheels broke and the machine came to an abrupt stop. Not so with tha passengers. Montgomery and Bicknell were in the rear seat and the former was the first out. He realized that there was a serious wreck and expected to find his companions dead. He struggled to his feet and the others who had fallen in front of him all in a pile were getting on their feet at about the same time. Jack felf a bruised place near his left collar bone but paid no attention to that as he inquired the condition of the others. They all thought they were not hurt but Harry Parker soon discovered that his left arm was injured. Montgomery

went to the home of Trustee Wortley and telephoned to town for aid. Delos Thompson went out in his machine and a doctor went out in his. The physician soon ascertained tfiat the personal injuries were very few. Parker had a badly sprained arm with the ligaments torn loose, constituting a very painful but not serious injury. He also had a bruise on his head. Montgomery had a broken rib. Bicknell and Harry Eger had escaped injury. The car was damaged to the extent of probably $75 or SIOO. One rear wheel was broken, all the spokes being crushed. The glass front was also broken as was the steering wheel. All agreed that the escape was very furtunate. It is probable that the soft ground is' all that saved the quartette from serious injury. The machine was brought in later in the day and will at once undergo repairs.