Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1915 — Children of John Borntrager In a Runaway Accident. [ARTICLE]

Children of John Borntrager In a Runaway Accident.

The three children of John Bomtrager, living: 6 miles west of town, met with am accident as they were going home from the parochial school in Rensselaer, a few evenings ago. They drive a horse attached to a glass front or "Klondike” buggy. They have driven the horse all winter and he has always been gentle. When near the. county farm, however, they passed a piano truck and the house lunged forward with such force as 'to break the single-tree and to strip himself loose from the harness. The buggy fortunately was not overturned and the children were not injured. The horSe raced down the road and the children went to Hit home of John Garland and from there called up their parents to report the accident. John came for them with his machine and hitched the buggy on behind. The hone was stopped at a farm house further west and Mr. Borntrager took the harness off and turned it loose and all went home together, the only injury being a broken single-tree and some slight injury to the harness.