Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1918 — HORSE STRUCK BY SPEEDER [ARTICLE]

HORSE STRUCK BY SPEEDER

At McKinley Avenue Crossing Wednesday Morning. George F. Craig of Monon, signal maintenance operator for the Monon railroad company, met with quite a serious accident at the McKinley avenue crossing Wednesday morning. Craig was driving one of the company’s motor propelled tricycles or speeders and collided ■with a horse and buggy driven by Worth Johnson, son of Ralph Johnson of Barkley township. The speeder run under the horse and the animal fell on Craig and the latter received a dislocated hip. The shafts and one wheel of the buggy ■were broken but neither young Johnson nor the horse were injured. Craig was taken to the county hospital and later to the office of Dr. Washburn, the railroad’s surgeon, who took some Xray pictures of the injured man but could find no other injuries than the dislocated hip. He was taken to Monon on the 1:57 train and Thursday’s Lafayette Journal said that he was taken tc St. Elizabeth’s hospital in that city Thursday morning, being accompanied by his wife, and that they •were met at the train by Dr. George F. Beasley and the Evans ambulance. The Journal also said that Craig was seriously if not fatally injured. Later—The Democrat learns that ■while Dr. Washburn wanted Craig to stay at the hospital here until next day, to see if anything further developed, his wife, who had come over from Monon, insisted ®n taking him home and said they were willing to assume all responsibility in so doing. That night bladder trouble developed and the attending physician thought best to take him to Lafayette.