Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1918 — MIGHT HAVE BEEN MUCH WORSE. [ARTICLE]

MIGHT HAVE BEEN MUCH WORSE.

A fatal accident was narrowly averted last Saturday evening about 8 o’clock at the railroad crossing just at the north side of Mt. Ayr, on the main Rensselaer- i Morocco road, when Jerry Tullis and family of near Aix Claude Holly of Beaver township, Newton county, came near colliding and to escape a collision Tullis turned his car to the right as he left the railroad and went over the narrow grade and roflled down in the ditch below. That none of the occupants were injured is a mir- ( acle, as z the ditch was some six or sefven feet deep and the car was badly damaged, the windshield being broken and the top completely demolished.