Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1915 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Country. SNORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. FATATi AUTOMOBILE- ACCIDENT. Amina Liveryman Dies of Injuries Near Williamsport. Williamsport, Ind., July I.—Ed Wattles, a liveryman of Arabia, is dead, and Lon Stevens, Bryon Fix and Earl Turner are seriously injured as the result of an automobile accident at 6:30 last evening near t the home of Lee Butler, six miles east of here. TlK* four men were hurrying to Williamsport in a new car belonging to Stevens. They were going fifty | miles an hour when the left front wheel struck a rut, breaking the j wheel. The car skidded and rolled ! over a barbed wire fence into a wheat | field, and lodged against a tele- | phone pole. The gasoline tank was j smashed, and almost immediately the car burst into flames. ■ ■■*- Mrs. Butler, her son, and her mother went to the aid of the injured men and dragged them from under the burning car. Wattles, Fix and Turned were unconscious when taken from the car. Wattles’ chin and throat were out open, diis chest crushed, and he also was suffering front burns. The four men would have been cremated in a few minutes but for the assistance of the women. Turner suffered concussion of the brain and is in a serious condition at the Butler home. Stevens 1 received a broken ankle, and is bad- ; ly bruised about the aead and chest. The men had spent the afternoon j at Pine creek fishing. Stevens, Fix : and Turner are brother-in-laws and | all live in the country south of Am- ; bia. Wattles had been in the livery business there ten years. He leaves : a widow and four children.