The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-10-05
Three Autos in Bad
Spill at Jamestown

ed autOmODlleS is the result or TWO
serious accidents Friday afternoon and
evening on the road one mile north OF
Highland cemetery.
The first accident occurred shortly
after noon yesterday when the steer.
ing wheel went out of commission on
the auto driven by S. E. Portermain
He was travelling about Is miles an
hour when the device went wrong and
the car swung into the ditch.
Mrs. Portermain was thrown out
and the muscles of her left side were
severely strained. Mr. Portermain
escaped unhurt. Walter Smith, riding
in the rear seat, made an aerial dive
and landed Is feet from the machine.
One front wheel and an axle of the
car were broken. Failure to have the
brakes on the machine in working
order is given as the cause of the &C.
cident
The second accident was the col
lision between the Buchanan and the
auto driven by Walter Bohn, which oc-
CURED so feet from the Portermain
mishap.
Thrown violently against the hood
of the automobile which her husband
was driving when their machine col
lided with an automobile driven by
Walter Bohn of this city, at o'clock
last evening near Highland Home
cemetery, Mrs. James Buchanan, of
Buchanan, was rushed to this city be-.
lieved to be suffering injuries which
fofo h,,f 1r,hi
later not so alarming and which per-
mitted her return to her home.
In +ha Buchanan automobile party
were Miss Stella Johnson and Miss
Kelley, teacher in the public schools
at Buchanan, and Miss Lillian Zin-
theo, of Fargo, principal of the pub
lie schools at Pingree. With Mr.. and
Mrs. James Buchanan the three teach
ers were making the trip to James,
town for the purpose of getting Miss
Stella Buchanan, teacher in the city
schools, to return with them to Buc-
hanan to spend the weekend. In the
machine driven by Walter Bohn, of
this city, and owned by G. S. Bouer,
of Melville, were Frank Tony and G.
F. Peterson, both of this city. None
Of the latter party was hurt.
When half mile, north of Highland
Home cemetery the Buchanan party
noticed an auto in the ditch and Mr.
Buchanan slowed down his car and
called the girls to look to see if there
was any one lying on the ground near
the car. He saw the approaching car
coming at high speed and pulled out
of the road to the extreme west side
of the road and had almost brought his
car to a stop when the approaching
car came in sight over a rise and
seemingly not under control. The car
kept to the road until close to them
when it diverged suddenly and struck
their car.
The front wheels locked and the
car was carried back nearly hundred
feet before Mr.. Buchanan's car drop
ped a front wheel to the ground and
turned around. The wind shield was
broken, one light and the running
board torn off and the front spring
broken.
Mrs. Buchanan was thrown .vio-
lently into the cowl Of the car and
badly bruised and her temple cut.
While her bruises are severe she was
able to be up and about this morning.
Mr.. Buchanan, who was driving, es-
capped without bruises or injuries.
Miss Johnson was thrown clear of
the car, but escaped without injury.
Misses Zintheo and Kelley we're
thrown to the bottom of the car and
fortunately escaped injury.
Banker Andrew Mckay and wife, Of
Pingree, came along at this time in
their car and took Mrs. Buchanan and
Miss Kelley to Jamestown, where Mrs.
Buchanan's injuries were attended to
at once. Soon afterwards Mr.. Cooty
and Fred Stark, of jamestown, arrived
in Mr. Cootey's car and took the re-
mainder of the party to jamestown.
Later Mr.. Stark drove Mr. and Mrs.
Buchanan and party to their home at
Buchanan.