Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1916 — BAD AUTO ACCIDENT NEAR GOODLAND [ARTICLE]

BAD AUTO ACCIDENT NEAR GOODLAND

Car Carrying Passengers From Indianapolis Races Turns Over Near Goodland.

Six members of an automobile party returning from Satu. day’s automobile races at Indianapolis were severely injured Sunday when the machine in which they weFe lading rolled into a ditch two miles west of Goodland. The car was a big seven passenger “Bull Moose Special,” belonging to L. C. Erbes, of St. Paul, -and was a specially designed car of his own. Mr. Erbes is a race promoter at St. Paul. At the time of the accident the car was going at a terrific rate of speed. The driver hatd been notified before .easing Goodland of a certain turn in the roda, which which his view would be obstructed before reaching, but evidently the driver forgot his instructions ana was unable to make the turn and as a result the car went crashing through a fence into a ditch. There were six occupants in the car at the time of the accident, and all were badly injured. H. L. Dunbar, an agent for wire wheels, w’ith offices in the Monadnock building, Chicago, was the most severely injured. His scalp was partly tom off, his jdw fractured, one rib broken and his body badly lacerate 1. E. J. Smaill, William E. Lee and F. L Duffield, salesmen for the BrunswickBalke Collender Co., had broken bones, both of S m all’s legs being broken, and Hugh Logan, manager of the American-La France Fire Engine Co., suffered a broken ankle andbruises about the head and leg. L. C. Erbes, the owner of the car, escaped with cuts and bruises. The men were given medical attention at Sheldon, 111., and taken to Chicago hospitals by train. The car was almost a complete wreck. Several Rensselaer people saw the car after the accident Sunday afternoon.