Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1916 — Monon Girl is Injured When Car Leaves Road.* [ARTICLE]

Monon Girl is Injured When Car Leaves Road.*

Monon, Ind., Oct. 27.—(Miss Oakle Smith, who was riding in an automobile with Frank Agen, of Wolcott, had a narrow escape from death last night when the machine went into a ditch and she was thrown through a barbed wire fence. The accident happened about a mile south of this place. Mr. Agen was blinded by the lights of another car and drove off the road. Miss Smith’s face was badly lacerated and her Jhroat was cut, the jugular vein being exposed. She was taken to the office of Dr. Reagan in this city, and twenty stitches were taken to close the gaping wounds.