South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-21
ONE KILLED AND
THREE ARE HURT
CIaud ROSenbaum, 19 Years
Old, Has Neck Broken When
Auto Turns Turtle.

Claude Rosenbaum III K. Tut St,
was almost instantly killed and three
companions were injured when the
automobile in which they were riding
turned turtle 1-2 miles out on the
Sumption Prairie road, about 2:3O
O'Clock Tuesday afternoon.
The party in the Inflated car con-
sisted OF Rosenbaum. Russell Gill III
w Tut ST. Floyd LOehr. PIG w.
Wayne stand a boy named LOngacre,
Of Woodland. Ind. who owned the
machine. that crushed the life out Of
one OF the party and inflicted injuries
on the other three.
The four were at the Houtz motor
cycle garage. S26 :. Michigan St. early
i'm the afternoon. About las o'clock
n call came in from a motorcycle
repair shop near North Liberty, and
Longacre volunteered 10 take the par
Is over to the garage i'm his car
Two Ride ON Tank.
Floyd LOehr, an emplOye Of the
Houtz garage. drove Longacres car.
which had all OF the body removed,
forcing two Of the boys to ride on
the gasoline tank in the rear
AS the car approached the railroad
tracks on what is known as Ginger
hill, about - miles west of the city,
another machine passed them, throw
ing up cloud of dust that blinded
Loehr and the rest of the party so
that ther could hardly see the road
They crossed the tracks in safety.
the fatal accident happening on
sharp turn 10 the left a few feet past
the tracks. ON account of the dust
LOehr failed to see the turn and kept
the car straight ahead
The machine went down a 14-foot
D. ~
of LOehr to stop the engine being
futile. The driver was the only one
to retain consciousness, Rosenbaum,
Gill and LOngacre being pinned under
the car.
Neck Is Broken.
LOehr first attempted to bring Ro-
iSenbaum TO consciousness, but seeing
that his neck had been broken by
the fall. he rendered aid 10 the others
dragging them out from under the
car. and attending TO their injuries
so that no serious results Will prOba-
bly, accure TO Longacre or Gill.
I The victim of the catastrophe was
only about 10 years old He was for
merly in the employ Of the Brennan
St, but had been out Of work for
about a month His father and moth
er and one sister survive.
4 Russell Gill was the most seriously
injured of the three survivors. as
there is a possibility OF conclusion
Of the brain. He sustained severe
\ wounds on the head and face. and
bruises on various parts of the body.
He was taken to his home. where he
was attended by DR.. Mitchell.
Tonga re was badly bruised about
the arms and shoulders and was taken
to his home at Woodland.
III. l.. LOehr Tells Story.
According to the DRY told by II.
l.. Loehr. father of Floyd Loehr drlv-
er of the Inflated machine. his son re-
ceived a call to go out near North
Liberty, where there was a motor
cyclist having trouble My SON" he
said, you know runs n motorcycle
repair shop LOngacre. who was loaf
ing at the repair shop volunteered
to take the party out 10 North Lib
erty. The machine had no body nor
top on. and the boys sat on the gaso-
line tank.
My son was driving. He had come
to Ginger hill, l-2 mi es west on the
Sumption Prairie aV. road. where the
railroad is located Just before he
came to the railroad he passed a ma
chine Beyond the railroad the road
iveers off sharply 10 the left The au-
tomobile which passed them raised
so much dust that my son was blind
ed
He did not see the turn beyond
the railroad. He kept on going
straight. his view of the turn OBJ
secured. and the machine went over
the bank. My son felt it slipping. He
applied the brakes. but the light car
had gone too far for recovery. 1t
turned turtle. burying the occupants
beneath.
The car struck a telegraph pole as
il turned turtle. Ny son was the
only one pinned beneath the car that
was conscious. He dragged the other
boys out. He began working on Ro-
senbaum. who was bleeding prOfusely
. from the mouth. He ran to a brook
about half block distant and brought
water in his cap. He also applied ar
, tihcial respiration
He could do nothing for ROsen-
baum. and turned his attention TO his
other two companions He revived
Gin by aid of water and artificial res
/ piratiOn and brought the other boy
I. TO. He worked with them over 45
minutes. a Mishawaka man came
: along in a machine and brought the
party home. Nelson Jones. the I'M
dertaker was notified and he sun
moned Krieghbaum's ambulance and
went after the body
Evidence shows that my son was
!, not driving over . miles an hour The
d fact that the car was strinned and my
! wheels and foot brakes prevented him
from making the car keep in the
road lie is prostrated tonight. very
. nervous and nearly historical
Or Mitchell came along after my
{ son had revived two OF his compan-
z ions and rendered first aid. The ma
chine was pretty well damaged.