Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1916 — ESCAPES DEATH IN RIVER [ARTICLE]

ESCAPES DEATH IN RIVER

Auto Racer’s Car on Brink of Bridge Over the Wabash. Lafayette, Ind., March s.—While racing today an automobile driven by Charles Kirkpatrick, an automobile racer, ran into the stone railing on the Maine street bridge. The car skidded and finally landed on the brink of the broken railing. The stone panel of the bridge was knocked in the Wabash river, 50 feet below.