Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1910 — Auto Crash Kills Girl and Injures Seven Others. [ARTICLE]

Auto Crash Kills Girl and Injures Seven Others.

Miss Cleo Shaffer, 14 years old, daughter of George Shaffer, a well known Huntington county farmer, was instantly killed and seven others were injured in an automobile accident Sunday evening on a country road six miles north of Warren. When Mrs. Schaffer, the mother of the dead girl, reached the scene of the accident, she fell prostrate across the body of her daughter and the physicians who had been summoned to attend the injured, had considerable trouble in bringing her to consciousness. Her condition is still serious. The injured are: Jessie Shaffer,. 16 years old, sister of the dead girl; badly bruised and lacerated. Lethea Zeigler, 17 years old; right arm broken and body bruised. Russell Gray, 12 years old, driver of the car; cut on body and knee dislocated. Lola McClure, 17 years old; two ribs broken. Ada Dairy tuple, 16 years old; left rib dislocated and ligament of arm torn loose. Mae Brown, 15 years old; right hand crushed. Jessie Brown, 3 years old; bruised about head and face. The car was being driven by Russell Gray, son of James Gray, a farmer, when something went wrong wjth the steering gear, causing the front wheels to become locked. The machine was brought to such a sudden stop that it turned over. Miss Cleo Shaffer, who occupied the front seat with "her sister and the driver, was pitched into the air and landed in the road on her head and shoulders. Her neck was broken. Those injured will recover. .