The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-08
OCCUPANTS OF CAR UNHURT
Frazier Sought to Turn Out to Avoid
Hitting Street Car When Steering
Knuckle Broke and Car Smashed
Into House, Demclishing Porch.


dent and in lot of ways the luckiest
ever reported in Kenosha, occurred
just before one O'Clock Sunday morn
ing when a small two passenger auto
mobile driven by William Frazier,
proprietor Of the Washington Island
bathing beach, crashed into the resi-
dence Of Mrs. Mary A. Mccartney
at the corner Of Sheridan Road and
South street, tearing the porch off the
house and wrecking the automobile.
There were four people in the automo-
bile but by some miracle all of them
escaped uninjured. The porch was so
badly wrecked that nothing was left
but a portion Of an over-hanging roof.
Frazier was driving his automobile
west along South street and according
to the police report of the accident he
was running at a rate of about twenty
miles an hour. He had as passengers
in the car the Misses Eleanor Rice and
Leona Brown and Frank Walsh. AS
Frazier approached the corner of
South street and Sheridan Road there
was q street car coming up from the
south act high rate of speed. Fear
ing a collision between the automobile
and the car Frazier swung his automo-
bile to the north and as he turned the
car the steering knuckle broke. He.
was unable to control it and it steered
about between a tree and telegraph
pole and went into the house with a.
crash. The striking Of the house
stopped the motor. The whole accident.
occurred SO quickly that Frazier was at
a loss to explain just what had hap
rened. The members of the party in
the crowded automobile picked them
selves out from the debris of the ruin
ed porch and not one If them had suf-
fered even scratch
Frazier declared to the owners of
the property that he could not have
avoided the accident, but he arranged
to pay for the damage done to the
house which will probably be in the
peighborhood of one hundred dollars.
Waukegan Man Runs Away.
Another automobile accident occur
red at the corner of Congress and
Elizabeth street late Sunday afternoon
when an automobile driven by George
Flemming of Waukegan, ran into a
buggy in which Herman Tredup and
members Of his family were riding.
The automobile, which was running at
a high rate Of speed, threw the buggy
to the side Of the road, breaking off
one of the rear wheels. Flemn1in0
never stopped his car but went along
ali good speed. The people in the
buggy shouted to him but the shouts
failed to have any effect. They man
aged to get the number of the automo-
bile and notified the police. Later in
the afternoon Police Officer Logan ar
rested Flemming when his car stuck
in the soft sand on Durkee avenue.
south Of Park Row. This morning
Flemming was arraigned on charges of
fast driving and he paid a fine of fifty
dollars and costs, the limit under
the statute.
Automobile Kills a Dog.
The Boston bull TERROR dog belong
ing to Henry Glerum and said to be
one Of the finest of his breed in the
city, was killed by an automobile at
the corner of Market Square and Chi
cage street just after five clock Sun
day evening. The driver of the auto
mobile did not hesitate a minute after
he had struck the dog and he manag-
ed to get round the block and get
away. 1t is said that the car had an
Illinois number on it. The Glerum dog
was valued at seventy-five dollars.
Turned Turtle.
A large touring car supposed to be-
long to Milwaukee parties, turned tur-
tie on the Burlington road north of
Kenosha some time last night. 1t was
still in the ditch early this morning,
but there was nothing to tell to whom
it belonged. 1T is not thought that any
one was seriously injured in the acct
dent.