Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 12, Number 11, DeMotte, Jasper County, 22 January 1942 — BILL MYERS SEVERLY INJURE IN ACCIDENT MON. [ARTICLE]

BILL MYERS SEVERLY INJURE IN ACCIDENT MON.

Bill Myers of Wheatfield was severly injured in an auto-truck ! wreck Monday. The accident occurrI ed at the intersection south of Wheatfield. Mr. Myers wag driving north in a Model A Ford coupe and failed to stop before starting across highway no. 10. Milton DeVries, driving a truck owned by Otto DeYoung and Sons in DeMotte, hit the Ford broadside, both the car and •■ruck skidding into the ditch beside the road; Mr. DeVries was taking a ractor home when the accident happened. The tractor was thrown from the truck, rolling over three times, Gaining much damage. *The front end of the truck was smashed, and the Ford coupe was completely demolished. Mr. Myers is in the Rensselaer hospital, still unconscious at the time of this writing.