Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1916 — WAGON AND AUTOS COLLIDE [ARTICLE]

WAGON AND AUTOS COLLIDE

Two Cars and Farm Wagon In Mix-up Monday. Mike Kuboski had quite an exciting experience Monday afternoon when returning from W. H. Barkley’s sale in Barkley township.He was driving his big Buick car and when near the Norman corner north of town he drove up behind a man driving a lumber wagon and having a chicken coop on top of his wagon bed. Mike “honked’’ two or three times to go by, but the man either did not hea» him or paid no attention. He then attempted to turn ou>t to the side to go by but the ruts held his car to the road. He applied the brakes, but having no chains on the wheels and the big machine slid on the snow and ice and rammed into the rear end of the wagon, knocking the chicken coop back into the front of the auto, breaking one lamp and the dash. No damage was done to the farmer’s rig except to give the man a big scare. To add to the confusion, while Mike was trying to get untangled from the rear of the wagon, Lynn Daugherty, who was driving a Ford some distance back, came up and he had the same -difficulty that Mike had in attempting to turn out to go around, with the result that he jammed into the rear of Mike’s car, smashing the radiator, lights and fenders of his Ford. No damage was done to the Buick, however, by this latter collision. Mike says next time he goes out he is going to take a flagman along, so he can send him back to flag other cars when he has occasion to stop so unceremoniously.