The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-11-18
AUTO WRECKED IN The DITCH
Man Staggering Along the Road Is
Dragged by the Fender and Suffers
Fracture of Two Ribs Accident
Happened at Midnight Saturday.

The lives of four men were put into
the balance against the life Of tippler
on Saturday night at midnight when
Fred Pabst well known Kenosha gar
age man drove his automobile into a
ditch along the Geneva road just west
of the Turner farm in an effort to pre-
vent hitting Michael Bicec Polander
who was struggling along the road and
who is now in the Kenosha hospital
suffering from a couple of broken ribs
and several bad bruises. In the car
with Pabst were Edward Williams,
Peter Cleric and Fred Anderson and all
of them are nursing severe cuts and
bruises as a result of their part in the
accident. The accident occurred Just
before midnight Saturday night Pabst
and the members of his party were on
the way to a dance at Truesdell hall
and they were driving along the right
side Of the road at rate Of speed not
exceeding fifteen miles an hour. The
Polander was evidently walking out to
some place in the town of Pleasant
Prairie and when Pabst first saw him
he appeared to be drinking out of a
bottle. Pabst slowed down his ma
chine as he approached the man, but
the man paid no attention to the ap-
proach of the automobile, and as Pabst
turned to the left the man staggered
in the same direction. Pabst tried to
stop before the man was struck but
seeing that this was impossible he
pulled the car way over to the left and
it went into the ditch. The fender of
the car caught Bicec and he was drag
ge~ for many feet along the hard con-
crete road. As the automobile went
into the ditch it tipped and Williams
who was riding with Pabst was thrown
directly through the windshield into
the field along the road. Anderson and
Cleric were also thrown from the car.
AS the car left the road both of the
two front wheels were broken off. See
ing that none Of his passengers had
been seriously injured Pabst gave his
attention to Bicec who was found some
distance from the damaged car. He
appeared to be very seriously injured
and as soon as possible another auto
mobile was secured and both Williams
and Bicec were brought to Kenosha
Later Sheriff A. F. Stahl was mott
fed OF the accident and he went
out to make an investigation. The
story Of Pabst and the other men in
the car indicated that everything poss-
ible had been done to prevent the auto
mobile striking Bicec, but Pabst and
the other members of the party insisted
that the Polander had walked directly
in front of the car and that it had
been impossible to come to complete
stop in order to avoid the accident.
Bicec was placed in charge of DR..
G.. E. Thompson and today it was re-
ported that while he had been pain
fully injured there was no fear that
his injuries would result fatally. The
man is very badly bruised from drag
ging along the concrete road and it is
probable that he will be in the hospital
for several weeks. The members of
the Pabst party spent Sunday congratu-
1ating themselves on their escape. That
all of them escaped serious injury is
regarded as little less than miraculous
Sheriff Stahl insisted this morning
that there was no cause to bring any
criminal action in connection with the
case. He insisted that Bicec did not
know what he was doing and that
Pabst had taken every possible precau-
ton to prevent the accident.