Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1897 — Mrs. Francis Painfully Injured. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Francis Painfully Injured.

As Mr. and Mrs John Francis, who live on the old Shindler place, in Newton Tp., were starting home from church Sunday night the kingbolt or coupling pin broke, as they were passing E. D. Rhoades’ house on Front street, at a brisk trot. This let the front wheels out from under the buggy and both occupants were thrown out with great violence. Mr. Francis escaped with nothing more serious than a badly bruised thumb, but Mrs. Francis had three teeth broken out and received numerous cuts and bruises, in different parts of her body. She was helped into Mr? Rhoades’ house, and remained until next morning, when she was able to go home. The horses with the front wheels ran violently down the street, but were brought to a stop at R. H. Yeoman’s place, by the lines getting caught in the wheels. A peculiar circumstance is that Mr. and Mrs. Francis were over at J. H. Sayler’s Sunday afternoon, and Uncle Henry Sayler, hearing of their intention to come to church in the evening, strongly advised them not to come, on account of the danger of accidents in night traveling.