Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1906 — DUMPED IN THE DITCH. [ARTICLE]

DUMPED IN THE DITCH.

Alva McCashen and wife, Mrs. Emma McCashen and son Virgil and Miss Etta McCashen, of Jordan township, were dumped in the ditch near St. Joseph’s college on Monday morning and their carriage upset, caused by their team taking fright at an automobile driven by Jacob Kline, of Brook, going past them, and without, the victims say, giving any warning of its approach. Miss Etta McCashen sustained a sprained ankle and a bruised face, but the others escaped with a few bruises. The carriage was quite badly broken, and it was a borrowed vehicle, too, belonging to John Tanner, a neighbor.