Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1919 — AUTOMOBILE RUNS OVER CHILD [ARTICLE]

AUTOMOBILE RUNS OVER CHILD

LOUISE CARSON IS VICTIM OF AN AUTOMOBILE AC- * CIDENT. Louise Carson, the 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Carson, of Franklin street, was knocked down and run over by an automobile driven by Samuel Lowrey, a farmer living on the Baker farm three and one-half miles north of this city. The accident happened about 5 o’clock Wednesday evening. Mr. Lowrey was driving near the Carson home and a group of children were in the road and were going to an ice wagon. Mr. Lowrey slackened the speed of his car and thought that the children had passed before him I safely across the street. As he went forward it seems that Louise started to re-cross the road and before Mr. Lowrey could stop his machine it had knocked the child down and run over her. The little tot’s hip was badly bruised and she is bruised and' the i flesh is torn in several places on j her limbs and body. She fell between the wheels and this accounts ■ for the fact that her injuries are not more severe. Mr, Lowrey stopped his car and was anxious to do everything in his . power for the in jured child, but 1 Mr. Carson says that Mr. Lowrey ~ was wholly blameless. Louise is a lovely -little girl, vary attractive, and had just started to school, being 7 years old. Her injuries, while painful and will keep her from school for a time, are not serious. |