Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-07
MORE THAN 500 ACCIDENTS ON
HIGHWAYS OF IOWA DURING
MONTH OF OCTOBER.
TWENTY NINE KILLED.,
s42 PEOPLE INJURED
Only Five Of fetal Deaths Take Place
at Railroad Crossings - Many Cars
Run OF Entertainments or Turn Over
While Travelling at High Speed
Highway Commission Statistics.
Special to Times Republican.

Special TO Times Republican.
Drs Moines, Dec I. - During the
month OF October there were 555 auto
mobile accidents IN Iowa in which
twenty nine people were killed and 642
people injured. These are the stats
tics as compiled by the state highway
{, mmissiun. FIVE OF these deaths TOOK
place in railroad crossing accidents
and twenty four OF the fatalities were
In accidents on tn highways.
The taIdI aCC.u~nls on tie highways
We're as IunUws: Sept. 50, Charles otto,
Boone, struck by car; Oct. l, JENNIE
Doy!eA, romeruy, car skidded, burned
under car; OCT. ;, Bert BUwermaster,
ralrheIu. car went over grade; oct. :,
Mss Clare Ba. mes, BLOOMFIELD; Oct. ).
l.. l.. harley, OnaWa, founu dead be-
neaIn car; Uct. o. Clara Mckinstry,
Dnawa, found dead beneath car; Oct.
b, Maurice hiliher. Ninton; struck BY
auto; oct. s, Ella Ransom. SIuuN Va
icy, driver tried 10 adjust CarbureIor
While running; oct. ), MI. W. II.
Dyerly, Marsnailtown, car turned tur-
tie; oct. :, " !Illam NJ. Fisher, Ottum-
wa, car turned turtle; oct. ~, Frank
smith, Burlington, car went over banA;
oct. 10, Charles J. johnson, Denison,
found dying under car, Oct. II, PAU
sutherland, Davenport, struck by cai:
OCi. Il, Alexander Dawson, Kingsley,
nit curve too fast, ear III. ned turtle,
Andrew IRWIN; oct. IL, FEED Whitney,
. III q 4 ! Exa.
OCT. 10, Albert Pul.en, Ciarinda, burned
unGer overturned car; Oct. =, l.. ).
Deveny, Ottumwa, ST. uck by car; OCT.
IS. W. VI. Johnson, humboldt, car went
over bank, Oct. 19, Marie Gardner,
New Hampton, struck by car: Oct 70,
John hostolecky, Montvzuma, car Ia
ditch: oct. -, Roy Moore. AdaIr, car
turned turtle; oct. -, Floyd d. LOwen-
berg, OttumWa, struck by car; oct. -.
Caa. les Brinsma!d, DIS MotneS, It: ucK
by car.
Other Accidents.
The taiaI accidents on railroad cross
ing, We're as follows: Oct. !, Tony
Mitchell, LOhrvIile, auto struck by caI.
oct. TO- Mrs. Alfred Van Auken. Cedar
Rapids, auto hit by train; oct. 10, NJ. l..
Barrett, Missouri Valley, auto struck by
train: Ben Comstcck: oct. -. Mildred
Moore. Anes. auto hit by interurban.
The automobile accidents where no
fata iities occurred in October follow:
- autos over emDankment, 10 persons
with broken nose; s. autos over en-
bankments, - persons cut and bruised;
So autos turned turtle, IL persons with
broken bones; % autos turngd turtle,
I29 persons cut and bruised; 10 autv
collisions, IS persons with broken
bones; 10 autos collide with street cars,
three persons injured; autos collide
with bicycles, persons injured; %
autos into distractions in road, IS per-
son" injured; 80 people struck by
autos, 81 persons injured; l. autos
struck by trains. - people injured; Is
auto accidents where autos were
wrecked and no one hurt: engines
thru bridges. 3 persons hurt: ) autos
cause runaways. persons: hurt. Total
accidents, 555. Total number Of people
injured, 642.