Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1919 — RUNS CAR INTO DEEP DITCH [ARTICLE]

RUNS CAR INTO DEEP DITCH

But Escapes With Two Fractured Ribs—Car Slightly Damaged. Mrs. Andrew Gangloff escaped fatal injury Wednesday morning by a very narrow margin when the new Ford sedan she was driving overturned at the Oscar Hauter corner, two miles southeast of town. She had driven out to the Gangloff farm to see about the wheat cutting, and when starting for home decided that she would drive around the square. When making the turn at the Hauter corner she turned the car a little too far and it slid off the grade into the deep ditch near the bridge and turned completely over, the wheels being upright in the air. The bridge abutments held th© car up somewhat and the occupant escaped fatal injury. She was brought to town by Joe Kanne .-and it was found on examination by the doctors 'that a couple of ribs were slightly fractured and her body bruised up considerably. The car was not seriously damaged, except a broken glass on the side, one fender bent, and being scratched up somewhat. Mr. Gangloff was to accompany his wife on the trip to the farm, it being the Intention to get Max Kepner to drive <the car, but Max couldn’t get off to make the drive until late in the afternoon, therefore Mrs. Gangloff, who has never driven a car very much, decided to do the driving herself. But Mr. G. bucked, evidently' having a foreboding that all would not be well with his betterhalf 'at the wheel, and staid at home—a very wise man indeed.