Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1914 — Tourists Killed When Auto Went Into Ditch Near Attica. [ARTICLE]

Tourists Killed When Auto Went Into Ditch Near Attica.

Attica, Ind., Sept. 10.—While enroute to St. Louis, Mo., from their home in Ann Arbor, Mich., Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Bird were instantly kill ed near here today when their automobile ran off an embankment and upset into the dry bed o*f a small creek a mile below Yeddo. Two of their children, a boy and a girl, were also injured, but a bright eyed baby boy, a year and a half old, was thrown from the car and was unharmed. Bird-and his wife were each about 40 years old. Theparty had stopped at a garage In Attica for gasoline and air and while there remarked that they were on their way to St. Louis to visit a sister of Mrs. Bird. No one knows what caused the accident, but it is supposed the machine was being driven too fast to make the sharp turn in the road. Mr. Bird was driving.