Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1911 — SEVERAL PERSONS HURT [ARTICLE]

SEVERAL PERSONS HURT

On Their Way to the Indianapolis Auto Races. Gary, Ind,, May 28.—While on their way to Indianapolis for the 500-mile automobile race Tuesday, four Chicagoans were injured in an automobile accident near here today. Harry Guick, 2138 Wabash avenue, accompanied by George Richardson Oliver Cook and Albert Bay. was driving When the car skidded and plunged over a twenty-foot embankment. The men were pinioned beneath the car and it required some time for farmers who were near, to release them. All were bruised and scratched, but none were seriously injured. J. A. Brown, a diamond dealer, of Chicago, while making the trip from Chicago to Indianapolis for the Memorial Day race on a motorcycle, was thrown from his machine three miles west of Crown Point, Ind., today, and sustained a fractured skull. He had started with 10 companions,. but had fallen behind and was trying to overtake his friends when his machine hit a rut in the road. He was picked up by an automobile party' and 'taken s to Crown Point and later was returned to Chicago by train. It is said his condition is serious.