Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1911 — A SIDE SWIPE SMASH-UP. [ARTICLE]

A SIDE SWIPE SMASH-UP.

Young Simon Thompson, driving his brother Firman's- Hudson auto Saturday noon, ran into Ed Duvall s Buick at the corner by Fendig’s poultry hpuse, with disastrous results to the latter. Simon was coming across the Washington street bridge at a speed of eight miles an hour, at least, when Ed came down Front street from the south on his way home to dinner, with his father. S. O. Duvall, and son William in the machine.

W illiam was driving the Buick, and he made a wide turn to the north for Simon to pass, but the latter, thinking Will was going to turn in at the garage, also pulled over to the north and his machine was going too fast" to stop when he saw his mistake. The result was that the Hudson car struck the Buick’s front wheel one the south a side swipe that forced it into the curb, bent in one side of the radiator. bent the front axle badly and broke the head lamps and fender, doing perhaps SIOO to $l5O damage. The Hudson, aside from one broken lamp, a slightly bent starting crank, and the springing of the steering gear was but slightly damaged, and was running in the afternoon. But the Buick will have to have some new parts before it can leave the hospital. ■Jt is a/wonder that an accident 7)F this kind has not happen-, ed before, considering the number of machines, in and about Rensselaer.