Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1908 — THE AUTO TURNED TURTLE [ARTICLE]

THE AUTO TURNED TURTLE

And Mrs. A. R. Hopkins Received a Broken Collar-Bone. A- R. Hopklns'and wife started on a pleasure trip Sunday afternoon, and having no particular place in mind started south at about 2:15 p. m. At 3:30 p. m., they found themselves south of Remington six miles, rounding a right-angle corner to the west, and here the trouble •commenced. The speed of the machine must have more than was thought, for as the turn was started the wheels skidded and one of them dropped into the ditch at the side of the road. This suden stop threw Mrs. Hopkins out and forward some ten or twelve feet, breaking her right collar bone. * She got up and started to walk to a farmhouse hardby, but had not gone far before she fainted. Mr. Hopkins, who had not been thrown out of the machine, had gone to her as soon as he could get out of the machine, picked her up and carried her to the house where she soon revived. He then got busy on the telephone, getting inf communication with Dr. Washburn, who started over in his machine to get and bring them back to this city. The Doctor arrived about an hour after the accident and then, after a few preliminaries, the homeward journey was undertaken, and completed without further mishap. Mrs. Hopkins is doing nicely at this writing and will be out in a few days.