Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1915 — John O’Connor Encountered Storm While on Auto Trip. [ARTICLE]

John O’Connor Encountered Storm While on Auto Trip.

John O’Connor, while making a trip to Hammond in an auto Saturday, encountered a big wand and rain storm northeast of Lowell. He was in a large touring car belonging to O. M. Bordwell, general manager of the Globe-Wernecke Co., and Mr. Bordwell and three other gentlemen were in the ear. When they were a short distance northeast of Lowell the storm started and it became so dark that one could not see across the road. The rain came in torrents and the wind blew hard and the machine came to a standstill and they waited until the worst of the storm was over. In proceeding they ran through water in pne place up to the axles of the auto. They saw one car that had gone off the road and into *the ditch but it had not turned over. Oats and wheat were down considerably and water was standing on the ground but there was no damage except to crops so far as Mr. O’Connor noticed. It was the hardest rain, he said, that he had ever seen in this part of Indiana.