Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1911 — Auto Smashed Up; Buys a New One. [ARTICLE]

Auto Smashed Up; Buys a New One.

When driving his father’s Cadillac touring car Tuesday evening near the Globe Onion Farm, north of town. John Parkison, in turning out for a car with its head-lights facing his car. ran into the rear end of a Ford touring car. It seems that Otto Schreeg of Parr, the owner of the Ford, had pulled off to the -ide of the road to fix a puncture. and not carrying any tail light there was no warning to other vehicles approaching from the rear. G. L. Thornton came along in his Overland and stop-

ped directly, at the side of Mr. Schreeg’s car, with the headlights, pointing in the opposite direction from those on the Ford, and when Parkison came along he naturally turned out to go around the Overland, thus running squarely into the rear end of the Schreeg Ford. Of the two cars in the collision, the Cadillac suffered the worst injuries. two broken and twisted head-lights, a broken steering knuckle, the radiator bent and twisted and several tubes inside were broken, and the fenders were more of less buckled back and bent up, while the Ford escaped with but a small hole in the rear of the body, where some projection of the Cadillac had hit it. The occupants of the car, except for a bad shake-up, were uninjured. Mr. Parkison traded the Cadillac Thursday for a fine new foredoor. self-starting car of the same make, and now, by paying a bonus in the trade, is better off than before.