Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1912 — AUTOS CRASHED TOGETHER; LOADED WITH PASSENGERS. [ARTICLE]

AUTOS CRASHED TOGETHER; LOADED WITH PASSENGERS.

Leon Elgelsbach and Stewart Moore Have Collision With Good Fortune For Auto Occupants. Leon Eigelsbach, driving W. I. Hoover’s Ford automobile, north bound from Goodland, having in the car Mrs. I. J. Porter and Mr. and Mrs. Ross Porter, and Stewart Moore with his Buick auto and a load of college basketball players en route to Goodland, collided near the residence of Frank Webber, south of Rensselaer Tuesday afternoon. Stewart Moore’s car was the most seriously injured. Either one or the other drivers did not turn out far enough and Stewart’s car’hooked on a wheel Of the car driven by Leon, jerking the wheel off and carrying it in front of the Buick across the ditch and directly through a woven wire fence. Fortunately none of the passengers of either car were hurt at all. The Ford car had a bent axle and the wheel which was jerked off had all the spokes broken out Stewart’s car had the lamps the lenders bent, the glass front broken off and one wheel damaged.