Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1914 — THOMPSONS MARKON TURNED TURTLE [ARTICLE]

THOMPSONS MARKON TURNED TURTLE

Accident Occurred Sunday at Zadoc and None of Passengers Were Severely Hurt. > Delos Thompson’s big Marmon touring car turhed turtle at Zadoc Bunday afternoon at about 5 o’clock and for about twenty minutes Mr. Thompson and Attorney Emmet Laßue were pinned beneath the car. Their traveling companions, Dr. C. E. Johnson and Druggist C. E. Garver, were unable to lift the car sq that they could be released, ana save for assistance secured when Attorney A. Halleck and family, accompanied by George Luce, of Chicago, and Mrs. Rose Luce and Attorney Caldwell, of Crawfordsville, the two men might have perished beneath the car.

Messrs. Thompson arid friends were on their way to Burroughs’ camp, north of Tefft, where they expected to have a fish supper. Just before the crossing of the wagon road with the C. & E. I. and the Wabash Valley roads was reached Mr. Thompson had brought his car to a full stop to permit Robert Michal, of Kniman, to pass. The Thompson car was then started at a slow pace to make the crossing. Just as it had passed over the tracks the front wheels veered slightly to the left from the wheel track in the sand and the side of the grade curved outward and the car went down the bank and turned turtle. The bank was probably four feet high. Dr, Johnson and Garver fell free from the machine. Thompson was caught across the body and Laßue was pinned under the back seat. Johnson and Garver tugged valiently to raise the car, but were unable to budge it. They expected that each breath from the men pinned down would be their last. They were getting desperate, for it is a very desolate place at -Zadoc and no aid could be procured without going a long distance. Just then Attorney Halleck and his party ar/ived from the north and the combined number were able to raise the ear and re,l eased the two men pinned beneath. Fortunately neither were seriously injured. The car had not suffered mrich, either. The windshield was broken, half of the steering wheel was broken off and one fender was bent The car was righted and Mr. Thompson drove it.home. The fish supper was not indulged in and during a quiet moment on the way home, Mr. Thompson broke the silence by saying, “How did you enjoy the fish supper?” After arriving home Mr. Thompson found that he had suffered a craeked rib and had some.other slight bruises.' Dr. Johnson found that he had a fractured collarbone and Laßue and Garver were uninjured except for bruises. It was a fortunate escape, almost miraculous, and none of those who experienced it ever want to flirt with an accident nearer the great beyond.