Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1914 — Two Auto Collisions Caused By Fog Last Saturday. [ARTICLE]

Two Auto Collisions Caused By Fog Last Saturday.

A dense fog last Saturday morning was made worse in the neighborhood of Mt.’Ayr by the smoke from a marsh flrep and two automobile collisions are traced to the fact that the eye could hot penetrate the fog and smoke but a short distance. “Jockey” Lyons and Chas. Brunton, the former in a Buick and the latter in a Ford, had a head-on collision between Brook and Mt. Ayr. Aside from damage to the cars there was no injury sustained. Clarence Drullinfer, the Mt. Ayr deliveryman, crashed into a buggy in which Miss Agate, a school teacher, was driving .between Mt, Ayr and Morocco. - Miss Agate was thrown out of the buggy but sustained no injuries. Several spokes in one buggy wheel were broken. Coal pickers on the railroad are trespassers. It is reported by Jesse Gates that the coal pickers are causing a lot of trouble and he has reported to Marshal Shesler, who may And it necessary to make arrests to prevent the trespass. Some of the pickers are so bolt that they take coal out of the off the {wagons.