Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1914 — RUNAWAY ACCIDENT PROVED SERIOUS [ARTICLE]

RUNAWAY ACCIDENT PROVED SERIOUS

Barkley Minister and His Sister Each Suffered Injuries When Horse Ran Away.

Rev. Charles Petty, pastor of the Barkley church, and his sister, Mra Jessie L. Snow, of Kokomo, who has been assisting him in a revival meeting, had 1 a bad runaway accident this Saturday morning and each received injuries of a more or less serious nature. They were coming to Rensselaer, where Mrs. Snow was to take the 11:20 train for her home and when three-quarters of a mile west of the Church three boys and two dogs in the road frightened the horse and one off tihe dogs, a white bulldog, lunged' at the horse and followed it when it started to run. The animal tore west to the corner just south of Jud Adams’s farm residence and made a wide turn at the corner, almost pulling the buggy into the wire fence. TJhe 'buggy was tipped over at this point and Rev. Petty and Mrs. Snow were thrown out and the buggy quite completely dmolished. Mr. Adams and others came to their assistance and Rev. Petty seemed to have his right shoulder dislocated, while Mrs. Snow suffered what she heflieved to be a fracture of her right wrist and alSo bruiseis about the face. She secured transportation and came on to Rensselaer and caught the 11:20 train for her home and will have her injuries examined there. Sunday is quarterly,, meeting at the Barkley church an^Rev. Petty will scarcely be able t 6 be in attendance. The revival meetings at the church have been progressing with increasing interest and a number of conversions are reported.