Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1919 — MIRACULOUSLY ESCAPES DEATH [ARTICLE]

MIRACULOUSLY ESCAPES DEATH

When Big Touring Car Overturned West of Aix Thursday. A big Westcott touring car overturned about half a mile west of Aix Thursday about 4:30 p. m., and how the driver escaped instant death is a miracle. The car was evidently being driven at a high speed and skidded in the road, which" is rounded up quite a bit at this point, z and turned over one and a half times before.it stopped, landing on its left side in the ditch. The steering wheel was broken completely off, both glasses in the windshield broken dut, the dash torn loose, fender mashed and hood jammed up, but the Ipne occupant of the car escaped with his life, although considerably bruised up and perhaps much more seriously injured than he thought. Two cars, bne man in each, were traveling to company, both bearing Ohio license numbers, one a Cadillac sedan and the other a Westcott six touring ~car, with dark green body, wire wheels and bearing Ohio license plate No. D-2241. It was the latter car that turned over. The men had passed through Retnsselaer only a few mlnutfes prior to the accident and had said that they found the roads fine from Wolcott here and had no difficulty in hitting along at 50 and 55 miles an hour. If the roads were as good on north, they said, they would be to Chicago in about three hours. But their plans miscarried, and the Remeselaer Garage was called and went out and pulled in the wrecked car, the other car coming in also, but both men left in the Cadillac after a short time and probably drove at a saner speed the balamce of the way to Chicago. • The cars were not new ones, the Westcott having been driven about 5,000 miles, as shown by the speedometer, and the other car perhaps about the same humiber of miles. The damaged car was left here.