Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — AUTO RUNS INTO REAR END OF BUGGY [ARTICLE]

AUTO RUNS INTO REAR END OF BUGGY

Midnight Spill of Young Folk* Nonr Ball Park Did Not Beanlt Seriously. At 11:30 o’clock Friday night an automobile driven by Victor Hoover, son of Sheriff Hoover, in which were four other young people, ran into the rear of a buggy occupied by Charles and Leslie Lowman and Misses Belle Phares and Grace Avis. That some of the young people were not killed is a lot of good fortune. The accident occurred near the baseball park aa all were returning from a box supper given by Miss Wilma Peyton at the O’Meara school house, southeast of town. Victor Hoover was driving his father’s automobile and in the capacity of a liveryman, had taken Lawrence Halleck and Miss Winona McFarland, of Fair Oaks, and Leslie Pollard and Miss Grace Peyton, of Rensselaer, to the box supper. They were on their way home ahd when about a mile from town the auto lights went out. Victor thought he would come on into town without lighting up again and it was this decision that caused the accident. The Lowman boys and the Phares and Avis girl were jsll riding in a single buggy, drawn by a team. They were driving slowly when the automobile struck them squarely from the rear. Those in the buggy were all thrown out and the horses ran away. The buggy was almost demolished, but miraculously those in it escaped injury except for minor bruises. The horses ran into town and to the Kanne livery barn. The auto occupants also escaped injury but the machine itself was damaged by a broken front axle, broken lamps and a twisted radiator.