Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1910 — Motorcycle and Buggy Collide On South Gravel Friday. [ARTICLE]

Motorcycle and Buggy Collide On South Gravel Friday.

Two young men from Chicago traveling on a tandem motorcycle and Will and Vick Michael, sons of William Michael, who were riding in a buggy, collided on the south gravel Friday morning and while both the buggy and motorcycle were somewhat injured and all the young men were more or less shaken us, the results were not at all serious. The two young men were enroute from Chicago to Crawfordsville to spend the Thanksgiving vacation. They were going at a tolerably lively clip 'on the smooth road and the Michael boys were coming to town and accommodatingly took to the side of the road to give the motorists full swing. The horse they were driving was thought to be perfectly gentle and the driver did hot even tighten his grip on the lines. Just about the time the machine was ,to pass the buggy the horse made a jump in front of it and the pilot of the motorcycle was unable to avoid a collision*with the buggy, although he kept from striking the horse. There were lively doings for a little bit. The motorcyclists were thrown from the machine and the young men from the buggy and it was presumed by each that all the others would be seriously hurt. Each was up in an instant looking for the others and a hasty invoice showed that none of the young men had been hurt beyond a few bruises. All took the matter goodnaturedly and agreed that the accident was unavoidable and that the blame could not be placed on any one. Will Morris happened along on a wagon and brought all the parties of the accident and the disabled buggy and cycle back to town. All the spokes had been broken out of one front wheel of the buggy and other slight injuries resulted to it, while the cycle had to have repairs that lequired new parts to be sent here from Chicago and the strangers waited until this morning to get the machine rigged up. so that they could resume their -journey.