Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1911 — AN AUTO MISHAP. [ARTICLE]

AN AUTO MISHAP.

Tourists Break Rear Axle to Machine Near Remington. An E-M-F touring ear, traveling along at a rapid rate of speed, had the misfortune to break the rear axle, letting the machine slide along at a dangerous angle for - perhaps five rods on the road about a mile north of Remington Wednesday evening. The left wheel on the rear axle crossed the road, went through a ditch and pushed its way through a dense hedge fence, and came to a standstill in the orchard of Charles Sigo. The driver' of the car escaped miraculously from almost certain death considering the high rate of speed that the machine

was going and the dangerous angle the car assumed after the loss of the rear wheel. A car from here towed the machine into the yard at the Sigo home and it was left there awaiting the repairs necessary to put the machine in condition. The car was frofh Nashville, Tenn., and was on the way to Chicago. The driver said he had come from Louisville, Ky., Wednesday, a distance of about 265 miles. The men in the machines werfe Sidney Tompkins and John J. Vertrees, Jr., in the roadster, and Joseph McHenry and H. A. Henderson in the, ill-fated touring car. The car was repaired Thursday afternoon and left for Chicago that evening.

A ! little excitement was caused here Wednesday evening when it was reported that an automobile with the back end in the ditch and the front end across the ( road was standing near the bridge, loaded with luggage and apparently in the best of condition, with every appearance of having been deserted hasiily by the occupants without taking their baggage with them, leaving several ladies’ hats, a ladies’ purse and other articles of wearing apparel. A machine from here went to the scene, hunted around to ascertain if any of the occupants of the car could be found, but met with no success. On arrival at town it was learned that Dr. Catt had brought in the occupants of the car, which had a broken transmission housing and was unable to get to town.