Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1916 — AUTO HITS BUGGY; TWO HURT [ARTICLE]

AUTO HITS BUGGY; TWO HURT

Driver of Motor Car and Ills Companion Arrested at Lafayette. Lafayette, November G.—Two persons were injured seriously Saturday night in West Lafayette when a racing automobile, said to have been going fifty miles an hour, crashed into ’a top buggy, throwing the occupants of the latter vehicle against, a pole and a concrete curbing. V -/ * V Samuel A. Westfall, age 4. r >, a cement contractor, is at St. Elizabeth hospital with a fractured skull, and Aldus, his 9-year-old son, has concussion of the brain. Mrs. Westfall, who also was in the buggy, is suffering shock. Haven S. Davis, driver of the motor car, and Clarence Stuckey, his companion, are prisoners in the county jail. Davis is the son of a wealthy farmer. The accident occurred at the west end of the Main street, levee, which for years has been used as a speedway, despite the many attempts to put a stop to the practice.