Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1915 — White County Men Injured at the Exposition. [ARTICLE]

White County Men Injured at the Exposition.

Thomas W. O’Connor, president of the Monticello National Bank, and Earl Burgett, a Wolcott school teacher, who with a party of White county people were visiting the San Francisco exposition, were injured in the collision of a large touring car and a motor bus in front of the ferry building at the exposition Tuesday. Newspaper dispatches stated that O'Connor had a thumb torn off and that Burgett was. internally hurt. The touring car was being driven at a high speed, it was said, so that Mr. and Mrs. Roberts of Kansas City, could catch a steamer. George P. Dixon, of San Francisco, the bus driver, suffered a fractured skull.