Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1919 — NEAR FATAL ACCIDENT [ARTICLE]

NEAR FATAL ACCIDENT

WHEN CAR OVERTURNED THIS j WEDNESDAY MORNING, PINING DRIVER BENEATH. 1 r' > - i A near fatal accident occurred about 10 o’clock this Wednesday morning when a new Ford sedan, driven by Mrs. A. Gangloff, the owner, overturned at the Joseph 1 Kanne corner about two miles south | of Rensselaer, landing upside down in the bottom of an eight foot ditch ' and pinning the driver beneath it. Due to the fact that the car was a new one and that the sedan top was able to withstand the impact, Mrs. Gangloff escaped serious injury. Another fortunate thing was the catching of one of the wheels on 'the edge of the bridge, thereby relieving her body of much of the weight of the car. Mrs. Gangloff was going north on the road passing the Oscar Hauter residence, and in attempting to turn onto, the west gravel ran off the edge of the bridge which crosses a small ditch at .the corner. The doors of the car were broken,— was the windshield, while the fenders and lamps were badly battered. Mrs. Gangloff was able to extricate herself from the wreckage without difficulty. She was brought to town by Joseph Kanne and an examination by a local physician disclosed the fact that she had sustained two broken ribs, in addition to several bruises about her body.