Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1918 — KILLED IN AUTO WRECK [ARTICLE]

KILLED IN AUTO WRECK

KNIMAN MERCHANT MEETS DEATH AS AUTOMOBILE IS DITCHED. G: G. Brown, postmaster and merchant at Kndman, fourteen miles north of this city, was killed in an automobile wreck early this rooming. in the cur with the unfortunate man at the time of the accident was William Ott, who Kves near Kroman. Ott’s story, as told to the coroner, is as follows: He and Brown left Kroman Monday evening about 7:00 o’clock in Ott’s Ford automobile. They drove to Rensselaer, arriving here at shout 8:00 o’clock. They remained hi Rensselaer about twenty minutes, and then drove to Beaverville, HL, arriving there about 10:00 o’clock. Whole at Beaverville they each drank four quarts of beer and started home. Ott had driven the car to BeaverriHe but Brown was at the wheel as they returned. They passed through Rensselaer at about 12:45 a. m. As they -left Rensselaer Ott got into the rear seat and was asleep. When he awoke he was pinned under the automobile about 100 yards south of the reel* dence of Henry Ropp, some five or six miles north of Rensselaer. Ott heard Blown call for help several times but was unable to go to has assistance. Ott also gave several outcries for help, which were heard by Mr. Ropp, who hurried to the scene of -the accident. The automobile had run -into the ditch ott the east ride of’ the road and in to steer it: 3a ok into the read it had overturned,, pinning both occupants under it Mr. Ropp succeeded in raising tftw part of the car which was pinning Ott ;o the ground. Both Ropp and Ott were unable to get tNb oar off of’ Brown, who by this time was -dead. Brown remained under the car until the arrival of Coroner W. J. Wright and party. Brown was taken from the wreck to the Wright undertakingestablishment, where it was found that his skull had been crushed. Ott to -the hospital in this city with a badly bruised back, rot was later able to leave for has tome The body of Brown was taken to his late home in Knimtan tins afternoon. He leaves a wife and four small children, the oldest not yet six years of age and -the youngest but a small baby. He was the proprietor of a general store and also the postmaster at Kniman.