Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1918 — MRS. PENROD IS SERIOUSLY INJURED [ARTICLE]

MRS. PENROD IS SERIOUSLY INJURED

I The following account of the Pen--1 rod automobile accident appears in the Saturday, July 6, Chicago Her-old-Examiner: Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Penrod, 658 W. 64th street, were returning from I Lafayette, Ind., yesterday with their I four daughters when their 'automobile overturned in a creek. The parents were seriously injured Mrs. Penrod may die. The children, flung into the water, escaped unhurt. Mrs. Penrod was pinned beneath I the car. Rescuers from a passing automobile held her head above the water’s surface while others worked to release her. She suffered internal injuries, several broken ribs and a fractured collar bone. r The children—Lolo, 16; Dorothy, 11; Helen, 9; and Virginia, 2—were thrown into six feet of water. The older girls, who could swim, rescued the younger ones as they whirled down the rushing stream and dragged them to the bank. Mr. Penrod, though badly hurt, worked desperately to save his wife from drowning, holding her head above the water until help came. The occupants of the other machine lifted the car sufficiently to free the unconscious woman. The family was carried to Lowell and taken to a private home. Mrs. Penrod was formerly Miss Bird Gilbert, of Lafayette.