Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1914 — Three Monticello Ladies Had Thrilling Experience Monday. [ARTICLE]

Three Monticello Ladies Had Thrilling Experience Monday.

MonticeHo Journal. Three ladies and an auto had a thrilling experience on the hill east of MonticeHo near the cemetery Monday night. Miss Marie McClure was driving the machine and the other passengers were her sister, Mrs. Charles Hoffman, and Miss Blanche Reid. As they were going up the hill they met a rig ana on giving the road Miss McClure attempted to change gear but instead got hold of the lever which reversed the engine. The machine ran off the road, going down the steep embankment through a fence and into a cornfield. The passengers in the back seat jumped out but Marie stuck to the ship as it were, and all escaped without injury. They finally got Bob, Cottrell out from town and after a . few hours’ work he got them on Jhe road again.