Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1911 — WOMEN HURT IN RUNAWAY [ARTICLE]

WOMEN HURT IN RUNAWAY

Team Zigzags Through Vincennes Street, Finally Striking Tree. Vincennes, Ind., April 7. —Maud Thorn, twenty-one years old, is believed to have been fatally Injured and Mrs. Emery Smith suffered a fracture of her left leg in a runaway accident here. The two women drove from their home in Harrison township to do some shopping, Frightened by a crowd of noisy children the team zigzagged a principal street for ten city blocks, both women vainly using their strength to check the maddened horses until they collided with a tree at the Court House square. The Impact broke Miss Thorn’s left arm, crushed her nose, drove four teeth through her upper lip and produced serious internal injuries.