Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1910 — Dr. Clayton, of Monon, In Serious Automobile Collision. [ARTICLE]

Dr. Clayton, of Monon, In Serious Automobile Collision.

Monticello Democrat. Dr. George R. Clayton, of Monon, was in Monticello last Saturday to buy a new automobile, having gotten his badly broken up in an accident Friday night. The doctor was responding to a hurry call about 10 o’clock Friday night, and when a short distance north of Monon met a Monon livery rig returning from a trip to Francesville. He turned out to give the r 4 a portion of the road but the’ driver failed to do likewise and the next moment the horses were standing on their hind feet right in front of the machine, and one of them came down right on the hood over the engine while the other broke from the rig and stood facing the auto from the rear. The doctor was not hurt, but a Monon lady who was accompanying him to his case in the country sustained a serious cut on the hand and was badly bruised about the breast. She was also about prostrated from the nervous shock. Quickly climbing out of his machine the doctor cleared away the wreck, made a few forcible and appropriate remarks to the driver of the rig, cranked up his machine and went on to his destination.