Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1915 — COURT REPORTER SUFFERS INJURIES [ARTICLE]

COURT REPORTER SUFFERS INJURIES

Mike Wagner Only One Hurt When Auto and Five Turned Over In Ditch Near Virgie. Michael Wagner, reporter of the Jasper-Newton circuit court, suffered severe injuries Sunday night when a Ford automobile driven by Charles Porter, son of Walter V. Porter, turned over about a mile north of Virgie. Messrs. Porter and Wagner, accompanied by Gerald Hollingsworth, Percy Hauter and L. M. Myers, the latter employed by the Jasper County Telephone Co., had driven to the Kankakee river in the evening and were on their way home. It was about 11:30 o'clock and according to all the car Was being driven at a rate, not to exceed 15 miles an hour. The track was along the side of the road and when the wheel of the machine slipped out of the track, Porter, who was driving, was unable to get them back into the traveled road again and after going along for about a hundred yards the car went into the ditch and turned upside down. Myers saw the impending week and jumped out. Hauter and Hollingsworth fell free from che car and Porter and Wagner were pinned beneath. Porter proved not to be injured but Wagner was badly jammed, the back of the rear seat pressing on his side and back. While the others raised the car Myers pulled Wagner from his' position beneath the car. The car was righ'ted and proved not to be seriously damaged and was driven to town. Dr. Washburn was called to the scene of the accident and brought Wagner to his room in A. Halleck’s residence, where it was found he had suffered a severe injury to four or five ribs near the back, also a .slightly sprained wrist. He will probably be laid up for several days but no permanent ill effects of the accident are expected. n