Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1918 — TEAM AND WAGON GO IN DITCH [ARTICLE]

TEAM AND WAGON GO IN DITCH

Heitman Sohultz of Union township had quite a harrowing experience while coming' to town Tuesday with a small load of rye in the single box of his wagon, a part of the rye being in sacks and a part loose in the wagon box. Just after he had crossed the Burk bridge north of town he met the Jasper County Telephone Co. automobile, and just as it got alongside of him one of his horses, a colt, shied at the • utomobile and the team and wagon went off the west side of the grade into the soft imick, the wagon turning turtle and spilling the grain out in the muck. The horses sank almost out of sight but, fortunately, it was about the noon hour and there were ten or a dozen men who were working under Deputy Road Superintendent ,W. S. Parks on this part of the grade south of the bridge, present, and through their united efforts and placing ropes around the necks of the Ihorses and raising them up b little at a time and throwing gravel underneath them, the animals were finally rescued from the mire (uninjured except for some soreness from their experience. Several bushels of the loose rye was lost, and rye is worth $2.30 per bushel, too.