Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1917 — PREMIER AUTOMOBILE TURNS COMPLETELY OVER [ARTICLE]

PREMIER AUTOMOBILE TURNS COMPLETELY OVER

To Avoid a More Serious Accident, Driver Turns Car to Road’s Side and Saves Lives.

•Four $2,000 Premier automobiles were being driven Sunday from Indianapolis to Chicago. On account of the difficulty to secure cars of the railroads a great many deliveries are being made by driving the cars from the factories to their destination. That this will be an expensive experiment for the James Levy Motor Co., of Michigan Avenue, Chicago, there is no doubt, for they now have at the Alfred Donnelly farm 2 miles north of Rensselaer, a fine hew Premier practically ruined. That the driver escaped with his life seems a miracle. The party driving the ill-fated car was H. S. Snodgrass, purchasing agent for the James Levy Motor Co., of Chicago. He was in charge of the four cars and at the time of the accident was driving the last car. The cars were driving through Rensselaer at a pretty high rate of speed. Mr. Snodgress claims that he was going about thirty-five miles an hour, but Sam Karnowsky, who was near when the accident occurred, says that he was going much faster than that. In any event, just before reaching the crossing at Alfred Donnelly’s farm north of town Mr. Snodgrass saw a four-jpassenger car coming toward him as it turned the corner coming frqm the east. Mr. Snodgress savs that the car pulled in on his side of the road and in order to avoid a collision he was forced to guide his car to the side of the road and in doing so his car turned a complete sommersault and he was thrown forward through the windshield. Whoever the parties were in the other car, they did not stop and their number was not obtained. ■Sam Karnowsky and family were at the Donnelly corner when the accident occurred and on account of the speed of the other cars that had massed he pulled to the * side of the road and had stopped his car. He went to the relief of Mr. Snodgrass and found him bleeding very profusely. He phoned to a Rensselaer doctor and the injured man was brought in to the county hospital,' where his wounds were bandaged. Mr. Snodgrass had several gashes on the face but none of them were serious. The most severe injury was to his left arm and it was necessary to tie up several arteries which had been cut on the windshield. A slight bruise to one knee was the only other injury. He was able to take the 6:50 p. m. train for his home in Chicago, the other three parties continuing the trip with the cars they were driving. The accident occurred about 4 f». m. Sunday. My. Snodgress was at one time employed on a farm near Remington. The scene of this accident is a very dangerous crossing and signs should be placed warning all travelers to drive slow.