New Ulm review., 1913-09-17
Additional
Auto Accidents J !!
Rec eckless Speeding Results
in Collision Of Two
Cars.
Vogtel Machine Loses
Wheel But No One
Is Hurt.

" neel but NO One
Is Hurt.
A near automobile accident occurred
Sunday afternoon shortly after one
O'Clock on Center Street near Mime
sofa opposite the Red Front Grocery.
Fortunately no one was hurt and very
little damage was done to either car.
Who is to blame for the accident is
hard to say, as each Of the chau ffeurs
10 trying to put the blame on the other
fellow. AS far O. our reporter hes
been able to learn, the Albert Gag
car, driven BY Hugo Fesenmsier, was
coming down Center Street from near
the post Office tcward Minnesota Street
at rate tride il excess Of the speed
limit. Until nearly opposite the
s'Fortschritt" Office, the driver held
his car about In the middle Of the
street and then swerved quite suddenly
toward the curb on the Red Front
Grocery side. About the Same time
Henry Fiene, driving bis fathers, DR..
Fiene's car, was coming up Minnesota
Street and turned the corner 1t Center
Street quite sharply. He also was
going trife faster than the law
allows. When he saw the other car
coming, he must have got ratified
in some way because instead of keep.
ing to the right he turned to the left.
No doubt it seemed to him that the
other car was going to make turn to
go up Minnesota, but there was really
nothing to warrant such . belief. In
the meantime Fesenmaier seeing the
danger, got % close to the curb ~ he
could snd had almost brought his car
to stop when it was struck by the
Fiene car with sufficient impact to
break the rear fender. The only
damage to the Fiene car is cracked
axle which pust be replaced by new
one.
A large crowd soon gathered and
discussed the accident and tried to
lay the blame where it actually be-
loneed. and during the course of the
remarks the city authorities came in
for q good roast because they per-
mitted the automobilists to practically
run the town and do as they please.
One OF our prominent merchants spoke
up and said that there wasn't another
town of the size of New Ulm In the
whole United States where the rules
universally adopted and observed
pertaining to automobiling are not
enforced. He mentioned quite q
number of small towns in our neigh
borhood where all the rules for the
prevention of accidents are rigidly
enforced and he got q trife warm
under the caller when he referred to
the lsxness in vogue here in the.
matter OF the enforcement Of the rules.
He may be right in his further remark
that he was afraid nothing would be
done In this mans town until seri-
Gus accident would quicken the public
conscience, because of q few OF our
prominent citizens who like to leave
their car in any old place and don't
want 10 be put to the bother OF fol-
lowing and obeying safe and sane
rules.
While hurrying homeward from
Nicollet just before the breaking Of the
storm last Wednesday afternoon the
left front wheel broke off of the Chas.
Vogtel five-passenger Buick touring
car, much to the conformation and
of the occupants. The acct
dent took place near the Lutheran
school house between Nicollet and
Courtland and the detached wheel
q three foot fence and came
10 rest in corn field two hundred feet
away. Except for the bending Of the
fender on the left side no further dam
age was done.
At the time Of the accident Melvin
vogtel vas driving the car at . rate
Df about twenty miles IN hour and the
breaking of of the wheel was peculiar
because Of the fact that no bumps or
sharp turns were encountered just pre-
vious to the catastrophe. On exsmi-
nation Of the broken parts 1t was
Iound that more than half of the axle
had been worn through and how the
break had been avsrted until that time |
% mystery.
The other passengers, Mrs. Chas.
vogtel, Mrs. Al. Olson and Roland
Mayer, did not realize the narrow es-
,spe they had had until they had time !