Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1914 — Former Remington Man in Auto Accident Where One Is Killed. [ARTICLE]

Former Remington Man in Auto Accident Where One Is Killed.

John W. Kenyon, formerly of Remington and a brother of Tip Kenyon, the Remington auctioneer, was in an auto accident at Templeton Tuesday, in which Will Hughes, aged 25, was killed and the other occupants of the machine, Frank McGuire and J. W. Ferrel, w’ere injured. All of the men lived in Oxford, where Kenyon was recently appointed postmaster. Their automobile upset in the streets of Templeton. The three men started from their homes at Oxford to get a train at Templeton. Running at twenty-five miles an hour on the main street of the town, the driver, Hughes, at+empted to avoid a rut, the car skidded and upset, finally alighting on its wheels in a church yard. The four men were thrown clear, but Hughes was so badly injured he died thirty minutes later. He was employed in an Oxford garage. Farrel has a broken arm and McGuire an injured back. Both are wealthy farmers. Kenyon was severely bruised.

Another fatal auto accident occurred in Lake county Tuesday afternoon, about 10 miles due south of Hammond, near the farm of Henry Paul, 1% miles north of Brunswick. Frank Dudley, head of the Dudley theatrical stock company, aged 37, and Peter Classen, an old soldier, aged 71, were killed, but Mrs. Boney. Mrs. Edward Mee and Mrs. Steger, the other occupants, were thrown clear of the car apd escaped with severe bruises. The party had left Hammond early in the morning to attend the funeral of a relative at Hanover Center, and were returning home when the accident occurred. Dudley, in whose big 7-passengar Cadilac they were making the trip, was noted as a careful driver, but he was driving > quite fast at the time and the slippery condition of the road caused the machine to skid and strike If rut, throwing it bottom side <up with Dudley underneath with his neck broken. ' Classen lived for a few hours after the accident.