Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1912 — PBOSTRATED BY HEATFELL FROM MOTORCYCLE. [ARTICLE]

PBOSTRATED BY HEATFELL FROM MOTORCYCLE.

Kenneth Rhoades became Unconscious While on Motorcycle—Narrowly Escapes Serions Inqury. •Overcome by intense heat, Kenneth Rhoades, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Rhoades, of this city, was thrown from a motorcycle Friday evening about four miles east of Remington. and for ¥ time it was thought he was seriously injured. (He and Herman Tuteur went to Lafayette yesterday on the latter’s motorcycle to see the Ringling Bros, circus. After the afternoon show was over Herman decided to remain for the evening. Kenneth wanted to return home so Herman said he would come .by rail and let Kenneth have the motorcycle. Rhoades started about five o’clock and had covered the worst roads of the trip between Lafayette and Wolcott. After leaving Wolcott he said the intensity of the heat became very noticeable. About 6:15 o’clock, when he had covered about two miles of the road between Wolcott and Remington, he met a farmer driving a grain wagon and slowed down to pass him. After that all is a blank with Kenneth. Mr. Miles, the farmer that he had just met, happened to glance hack and at that moment he said that Rhoades was turning somersaults id the air and the machine was plunging in ditch at the side of the road. Mr. Miles went to assist Rhoades and found him in an unconscious condition in which state he lay until 8:30 o’clock. A Wolcott physician was called to administer treatment. He declared that Rhoades was overcome by heat and that he probably became, unconscious before he fell. Kenneth was very fortunate, in that he was not seriously injured. His only injuries are a bruised head and left shoulder on which he fell. As'%bhoades was a stranger in that locality his identity was not learned until he regained consciousness. His father was then notified by telephone and went after him in an automobile, arriving here again about 10:30. Kenneth was on the streets this morning and seems none the worse for his experience excepting a feeling of general exhaustion.