Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1903 — Miss Ethel Merrill’s Accident. [ARTICLE]

Miss Ethel Merrill’s Accident.

Dr. W. W. Merrill returned home Monday night from the side of his daughter, Mits Ethel, at 4421 Harvard Ave., Englewood. He gives particulars of the aocident to the young lady, whioh has already been briefly mentioned. It oooured at 8 a. m. Saturday morning, at the Union Stookyards, where Miss Merrill was doing clerioal work. She was crossing a street, when she was struck by a grocer’s delivery wagon, going very fast and swinging around another wagon, and which she therefore did not see. Bhe suffered a severe concussion of the brain, and numerous bruises. She was unoonsoious for several hours, and at first was to be killed. When the doctor left her, she was improving slowly and hfcr symptoms indicated that she would recover. The driver of the grocery wagon was arrested and held to await the resplt of the young lady’s injuries. Oall on the new cement firm for all kinds of sidewalk and patohiag and foundations. All work guaranteed first elass. Phone 366. O. W. Platt A Ykidkb