Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1911 — RENSSELAER YOUNG LADY IN AUTOMOBILE WRECK. [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER YOUNG LADY IN AUTOMOBILE WRECK.

Miss Nina Xartindale In Machine That Ran Down Embankment and Overturned Near Rochester. Miss Nina Martindate arrived home Friday evening after an experience that almost cost her l}fe, and from which she escaped most fortunately with only a slight bruise or two. On Wednesday Miss Martlndale accompanied Miss Elizabeth Hunter and her father, Mr. Will Hunter, of Williamsport, who had been visiting here, to Winona Lake in an automobile. Mr. Hunter went on to Syracuse, Ind., and returned Thursday evening to Winona and Friday morning in his automobile they made an early start on the return trip to Rensselaer. They were four miles northeast of Rochester on >• high road grade when Mr Hunter, who was driving the car reached to the bed of the car to pull a laprobe over a box. Miss Martindale and Miss Hunter were, riding in the rear seat. Mr. Hunter lost control of the car and it ran straight down the embankment and through a wire fence and overturned. All were caught between the car and the top. The latter was strong enough to hold up the car for a short time, but it was mashed down low enough to keep them from getting out and the weight gradually caused the top to give way and the top was sinking on them. They all expected to be crushed to death and doubtless would have been had help not reached them. Miss Martindale relates that the greatest weight was on her neck. The car sank slowly but surely and the pressure on her neck increased until she was almost choked to death. Then help came. It happened that the accident occurred in a thickly settled neighborhood and sufficient men and women came to the rescue so that the car could be pried up and the victims pulled from underneath. Mr. Hunter proved to be the most seriously injured. He suffered a dislocation of his right shoulder and a bad cut on his face. He was otherwise bruised. Miss Hunter was considerably bruised. Miss Martindale escaped with the glighest injury.

Her neck was strained somewhat and she had other slight bruises, but is able to be out today and will suffer no permanent effects of the accident. A doctor was summoned by some of the people who expected to find the passengers in the car, dead or dying. He attended to Mr. Hunter and the two young ladies. All went to Rochester and took the train for their homes. Mr. Hunter had the car righted and hauled to Rochester and shipped to Lafayette for repairs. It was a new Cadillac machine.