Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1915 — Recalls First Fatal Auto Accident in Jasper County. [ARTICLE]

Recalls First Fatal Auto Accident in Jasper County.

The terrible auto accident up in Lake county one evening last week, wb.en two men and a woman who were driving from Gary to Hammond run the machine off the road into the swamp at the ride and it overturned and smothered them in the mud and water, recalls the first fatal automobile accident that occurred in Jasper county some years ago, when Joe Fagot of Remington, was driving home from Rensselaer one night and lost control of his machine and went off the grade at the Hoover bridge, south of town, and the auto turned over and pinned him beneath „it in the mud, smothing him to death. In the Lake county case, all three occupants of the automobile, Melvin H. Goodrode, John Thompson his brother-in-law of Chicago, and Mrs. Anna D. Adkins, of Hammond, who was employed as a demonstrator by the Friedman Mfg. Co., for whom Goodrode was a salesman, were all killed. In the Fagot accident here, two little sons of Mr. Fagot, who were with him in the machine, escaped without injury.