Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1916 — More Fatal Automobile Accidents in Benton County. [ARTICLE]

More Fatal Automobile Accidents in Benton County.

Apparently Benton county has more fatal automobile accidents than almost any other ,county of its size in the country, and quite a number of citizens of that county have lost their lives by such accidents during the past two or three years. Only last Thursday night Perry Stemble, aged 55, cashier of the Bank of Benton County at Fowler, while driving with Miss Iva Markle, aged 25, a trained nurse of Indianapolis, whose home was at York, Neb., was run down by train No. 99 on the Big Four at a crossing near Crawfordsville and Miss Markle, who was driving the car, was instantly killed. Stemble received severe cuts about -the head, but will recover, it Is announced.

The same night Mrs. Oscar J. Young, aged 35, wife of a farmer living at CheneyviJle, 111., was killed two miles south of Ambia, in Henton county, when an automobile in which she and her husband and daughter, aged eight, were riding, turned over. Mrs, Young was pinned to the ground with the front door of the machine across her neck. She lived about 20 minutes after being taken from the wreck. Mr. and Mrs. Young and their daughter were cn their way home from Danville, 111., when the accident happened. Herman Larson of Wadena, flenton county, got his right shoulder dislocated leg badly cut and Vernon Moore received scalp wounds at 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon when the car in which they with I. N. Polling and William Milnes, also of Wadena, collided with another car near Montmorenei. Larson and Moore are farmers. Polling is the janitor of the Wadena school building and"Milnes is clerk in Mitten’s store at Wadena. They were on their way home from a trip to Lafayette when a south bound car run into them. Their car was badly damaged and all of the men considerably bruised up.