Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1920 — K. T. RHOADES BADLY INJURED [ARTICLE]

K. T. RHOADES BADLY INJURED

WHILE UNLOADING AUTOMOBILES FROM MONON CAR THIS TUES. MORNING K. T. Rhoades, automobile salesman, suffered a badly broken left leg, and Don Hoover, automobile mechanic, received a broken nose dbout eleven o’clock this Tuesday morning, tfye result of an accident which occurred while they were engaged in unloading a carload of Dodge autos from a Monon freight car. Victor Hoover, who was assisting the men, miraculously escaped serious injury. The lower tier of automobiles had been removed from the car and the men were engaged in putting on the Wheels of the automobiles which were suspended from the roof of the freight car. The three men were beneath the car and had just finished putting on one wheel when the wires which suspended it gave way, and the automobile went crashing to the floor. Rhoades was pinned beneath it, but Don Hoover managed to get out of its path, but Wa» struck on the nose as he did so. Victor was ‘fortunately on the side of the car on which the wheel had been placed and the car did not strike him. Rhoades’ leg was broken well above the knee and, although the break was a clean one, it is one that will lay him up for several months. He was removed to his home on N. College avenue by an - ambulance. . . j