Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1912 — An Auto Mix-Up. [ARTICLE]

An Auto Mix-Up.

While returning from the funeral of Mrs. E. C. Fountain at Goodland Tuesday afternoon, having in 'his auto Mrs. I. J. Porter and Mr. and Mrs. Ross Porter, Leon Edglesbach, driving W. I. Hoover’s Ford auto, met near Frank Webber’s residence south of town, Steward Moore in the latter’s Buick, who was taking a load of College basket ball players over to Goodland, and both trying to pass in the same track, resulted in a headon collision of the side-swipe variety. The. front wheel of Moore’s car caught in the front wheel of the Ford, tearing the latter off and throwing it through a woven wire fence. The axle of the Ford was also bent and all the spokes knocked out of the wheel that? was torn off. Moore’s car had one wheel damaged, the glass front and lamps broken and the fenders bent. None of the occupants of either of the cars were injured.