Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1917 — TOURISTS HAVE AN ACCIDENT [ARTICLE]

TOURISTS HAVE AN ACCIDENT

MRS. E. W. ALLEN SERIOUSLY INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT IN PENNSYLVANIA. Mrs. E. W. Allen, who left Wheatfield a week or two ago with her son, Eugene Allen, and her daughter, Mrs. Simon Fendig, to visit Mrs. Fendig’s son, who recently joined the army and is stationed in the east, was seriously injured in an. automobile accident Sunday. No particulars have been received of the accident, except the following from the Lafayette Journal: “E. W. Allen, proprietor of the Lafayette Taxi company, received word last night thdt his mother, Mrs. E. W. Allen, of Wheatfield, has been seriously injured in an automobile accident in Pennsylvania and is at a hospital in Uniontown, Pa. His son, Eugene Allen, and his sister, Mrs. Simon Fendig, also of Wheatfield, were also in the accident, but they were uninjured. How the accident occurred was not stated in the message. The party was returning from Allentown, Pa., where Mrs. Fendig’s son is intraining as a member of an ambulance unit. They were traveling in a Maxwell touring car. E. W. Allen left this morning for Uniontown.