Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1911 — Almost An Auto Accident [ARTICLE]

Almost An Auto Accident

Because of the high speed clutch of his auto being defective, Dr. S. H. Moore had a narrow escape from serious injury Wednesday afternoon. He was i making the turn by the B. J. Moore residence on “low.** and as he rounded the corner he slipped the gear into “high,” the clutch did not take hold at once, and the engine running at a fast rate, so that, when the clutch finally held it shot the car forward at great speed. The

machine climbed a curb and passed through a fence before it could be stopped, narrowly missing a telephone pole, which, had the machine hit at the,rate it was going, would have resulted seriously, no doubt. John Braddock was in the machine with Doctor Moore, showing the latter '‘how to- do it,” but this stunt was not on the program.