Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1920 — GOODLAND WOMAN DIES FROM INJURIES AND SHOCK [ARTICLE]

GOODLAND WOMAN DIES FROM INJURIES AND SHOCK

Following Automobile Accident Near Rensselaer Tuesday Afternoon. Mrs. John Wilson of Goodland, aged 79 years, died at the county hospital In Rensselaer at 7:30 Thursday morning from injuries and the shock received In an automobile accident early Tuesday afternoon about % mile west of the Clouse or Kennedy corner, four miles south of Rensselaer, on the east and west stone road through Jordan township. In company with Mrs. Dora Gil' man, also of Goodland, In the latter’a Hudson touring car, Mrs. Wilson was coming to Rensselaer to call on Mrs. W. C. Babcock and other friends here. The continued rains had made the roads quite slippery, and it is supposed that the car skidded and before Mrs. Gilman could right it, it had plunged off the side of the road and across the' ditch and was headed west, but still right side up when it stopped. The top and side curtains were up and both occupants were thrown out of

the car, probably through the windshield, but as to this they did not know, as It all happened so quickly. Mrs. Gilman, who was crippled a number of years ago in a railroad wreck in which Mr. Gilman’s first wife (who was a daughter of Mrs. Wilson) was killed while going to California to attend an Epworth League convention, escaped with a number of bruises, but Mrs. Wilson was held fast by some of her clothing being caught under one of the wheels of the car. After trying unsuccessfully to release her, Mrs. Gilman wient to the house on the Kennedy farm to get help, but found that no one lived there, and she then came on east to the Range Line road and stopped the first person who came along, who happened to be George M. Myers of this city. In company with Mr. Myers she reJbrned to the wreck and they released Mrs. Wilson, MT. Myers then bringing both ladles to town. Mrs. Wilson was taken to the county hospital and Mrs. Gilman to the home of George W. Hopkins, the and Mrs. Hopkins having been schoolmates in Goodland several years ago. The car, while somewhat damaged about the front and windshield, was driven to Goodland

under its own power later. The road where the accident occurred Is not traveled nearly so much as the Range Line road,- yet it Is used considerably by people going to and from Brook and Goodland. It was therefore perhaps from a half to a full hour before assistance was secured and Mrs. Wilson released. During this time she lay exposed to the rain and was considered In quite a critical condition from the first. Her vjsible injuries consisted of a bad bruise about one eye, bruises about the chest and the lower part of the face. The doctors thought that it was also possible that one of the rear wheels of the car had passed over her chest. Mrs. Wilson was a pioneer resident of Goodland, her, husband having been one of Its early business men. He died several years ago, and’ she is survived by three children, Mrs. Will Bringham of Bloomington, Ill.; Mrs. T. C. Chattln of Union City, Ind., and Oscar Wilson of Chicago. Mrs. Gilman’s bruises were not so serious and gjie was taken to her home in Goodland Thursday afternoon.