Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1910 — More Leaned About Dr. Wishard’s Automobile and Train Collision. [ARTICLE]

More Leaned About Dr. Wishard’s Automobile and Train Collision.

Mrs. Jennie L. Wishard received a letter this Wednesday morning from Mrs. E. E. Wishard, who tells more about the accident the doctor had in Noblesville Monday. * „ The letter states that he was run- » ■ ■ • ' i ; ning his car slowly and as he approached the railroad track he looked in both directions but saw no moving cars, nor did the watchman try to stop him. Just as he was in the center of one of the tracks, several cars that had been concealed from his view by stationary box cars, and which were detached from the train and making a flying switch, struck his automobile, which was carried a distance of 42 yards down the track in front of the cars before it was crushed. While the letter does not state, it is presumed that the doctor jumped and thus saved himself, as the. auto was crushed. Mrs. Wishard says that the car was very strong, and accounts for her husband’s escape by the fact that the car was not crushed when first struck. As the flagman made no effort to stop him and as there was no trainman on the cars that were being switched, the responsibility of the railroad is certain and Mr. Wishard will doubtless recover the value of his car as well as some personal damages. He escaped with a number of slight bruises and strains and was confined to his bed Tuesday when Mrs. Wishard wrote.