Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1919 — YOUNG LAD STRUCK BY AUTO [ARTICLE]

YOUNG LAD STRUCK BY AUTO

Son of Harry Brown Receives a 6 Broken Leg and Bruises. Kenaieth, the 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brown of four miles north of Rensselaer, had a. narrow escape from death at about 4 o’clock Monday afternoon, when struck by W. D. Bringle’s Oakland car at Aix. As it was, both hones of the boy’s right leg were broken ‘ below the knee, a gash cut scalp and the skin scratched on his face. He was also bruised on the ‘side where the car hit him, but a careful examination after he was brought „to the hospital disclosed that the skull was not fractured nor any ribs broken. The boy goes to school at Aix, »id Mrs. Brown had driven up tJtere in their Ford car to bring himi home when school was ’out. She had stopped her ear on 1 the west side of the road across from the Aix store, after taking the boy in—there being some teams of horses near the store on the east side —and sent the lad in to see if she could get some sugar. , He returned to the car and told her that she could get sugar and she gave him the money to pay for same, and he started back across the road. Mr. Bringle, accompanied by his sister-in-law, Miss Mary Goetz, was coming south in his car. He saw the boy cross the road and climb onto the running board of the Ford. He was not driving fast and had sounded the horn, but the noise made by the Brown car, the engine of which was running, drowned) the sound evidently, so far as the injured lad was concerned, and when he, started across road the Bringle car was too close to avoid striking him-. He was struck 'by one of the front lamps onl the car, thrown to the ground and the car passed over him, but the wheels did not run over him. Mr. Bringle says that he could have stopped the car when partly over the lad, but feared to do so because of perhaps injuring him worse to stop with him underneath the car, therefore he did not stop until the car had passed completely over him. When picked up the boy was doubled uip and was unconscious, but (before reaching home he came to and was brought to the hospital where his injuries were looked after and he was reported yesterday to be doing nicely, and if no complications set in his complete recovery is only a matter of time. Mr. Bringle is an experienced driver and is known as a v<y careful driver, and while held blame- - less for the accident, which was unavoidable, he felt as badly about it as though the boy had been his own. He thought the boy was killed when he stopped his car, and it was so reported in Rensselaer Monday evening, but fortunately, and almost miraculously, he escaped with the injuries above ( stated, for which the many friends / of both the family and Mr. Bringle feel very thankful to a kind providence-