Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1905 — AUTOMOBILE GOES WRONG. [ARTICLE]

AUTOMOBILE GOES WRONG.

Probable Fatal Accident Near Frankfort.— Rensselaer Man With The Party. Frankfort, Ind., August 2 John Rynearson, deputy State oil inspector, living at West Lafayette, was injured in an automobile accident, just west of this city, thia morning, and probably will die. Mr. Rynearson, with his wife and ten-year-old son John, and his brother-in-law, John O. Martindale, of Rensselaer, left Lafayette early to-day in a sixty-horse-

power automobile, to drive through to Indianapolis. When near Wild Cat creek, west of this city, while going down a steep hill, Mr. Rynearson, who was driving the machine, attempted to change the speed from medium to alow, but touched the wrong lever and increased the speed. The machine got beyond bis control and jumped over a fifteen-foot embankment, ail of the occupants being buried beneath the machine, except Mr. Martindale, who was thrown twenty feet to one side. Mr. Martindale took Mrs. Rynearson and son from under the automobile, but before Mr. Rynearson could be freed it was necessary to get a team of horses and drag the machine off him. Mr. Rynearson suffered a dislocation .of bis left hip, and his skull was fractured. Physicians entertain no hope of his recovery. He was brought to this city and taken to the hospital. The other members of the party escaped with slight bruises. The machine was wrecked. Mr. Rynearson was appointed deputy State oil inspector only a few months ago. He is about fiftyfour years of age. Later reports state the Rynerson died Thursday. The Martindale mentioned, is ex-county commissioner John Martindale of Newton tp.