Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-24
WILL PROSECUTE
DRIVER OF AUTO
Police Captain Giles Has F. G..
Salisbury Arrested for Ex-
ceeding Speed Limit.
is RELEASED UNDER BOND
Action Follows Collision Between
Testing Machine and Bobsled in
Which Six Were Injured.

F. G. Salisbury, driver of the testing
icar which collided with a coasting bob
on Forty-fourth street Saturday after
noon, has been arrested and will be
prosecuted on a charge of having ex-
ceeded the speed limit. W. A Giles,
police captain, signed the complaint.
] Captain Giles young son was among
those injured in the collision. The
parents Of some of the other injured
children have also expressed a desire
to prosecute the driver.
Salisbury was brought before the
police magistrate this morning and at
his request the case was continued un-
til Wednesday evening. He was re-
leased after furnishing bond of 5000
signed by the members of the Root &
Vandervoort Engine company, by
whom he is employed
All Against Him.
There seems to be plenty of evidence
against Salisbury, as practically every
one who saw the accident has ex-
pressed himself as convinced that
the automobile was greatly exceeding
the speed limit of 10 miles allowed by
law. Several carpenters who were en-
ployed at a new house nearby were of
the opinion that the testing machine
was travelling at a speed of at least %
miles an hour. A professional man
from Moline who is himself the pos
SCISSOR Of an automobile states that he
thinks the machine was going at a
speed of 20 miles per hour at the time
of the collision. Salisbury denies this
fact and says that the speed indicator
of his machine showed he was going
only 10 miles an hour. The force with
which the machine hit the curbing
after the accident, seems to contradict
the evidence of the speedometer how
ever, as the rear wheels of the ma
chine were almost demolished.
children Recovering.
The children were injured more Sc
vere1y than was first believed Some
of them seem to have suffered inter
nally and their condition is being
watched closely as it is impossible to
tell at once how they are. Little Ebba
Anderson seems to have suffered the
teeth were knocked out and her face
was frightfully cut John Giles, the
son of Captain Giles of the police
force, remained unconscious for "A
hours, but he seems to be recovering
now. His head and body were hurt
George Bushna, years old, had his
ear cut and his head so severely
bruised that it is feared he suffered
a slight conclusion of the brain Ara
bella Johnson, IA years old. is suffer
ing from a badly hurt hip and bruised
back. Her injuries are very painful.
Martin Norman, 81 years old, was hurt
internally in the stomach, but his ply
sician expresses the hope that it will
not prove serious. Viola Youngert, IA
years old, had her face and head cut
and her back bruised
Boys Thigh Broken.
Joseph, S-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Exner, 712 Fourteenth
and-a-haIf street, suffered a serious ac-
cident while coasting with some older
boys on Eighteenth avenue Saturday
afternoon, the bob overturning during
it's descent of the hill and the Exner
boy being caught under the sled and
dragged in such a manner as to cause
a fracture of his left thigh. He was
carried to his home and a physician
summoned to attend him The little
fellow will be laid up for some time
with his injury.
Two Hurt in Moline.
Frank Vadamme, aged Il, while rid
ing down Third street hill, in Moline,
yesterday afternoon. collfded with
telephone pole. Both bones of the left
leg were brokn. William Spalding,
aged 81, In coasting accident on the
Sixteenth street hill Saturday after