South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-11-07
MAN KILLED IN
AUTO ACCIDENT
Three Others Injured When
Machine Leaves Road
Driver Cannot be Found.


seriously injured and a fourth can
rot be found as a result of an auto
mobile accident on w Division
street some time between midnight
and 1890 o'clock Monday night.
The injured are in the Epworth hos
pi.al and searchers are looking for
the lost man.
The men who We're in the car
were.
Guy Bridges. 70S r. Osborn ST.,
South Bend. trimmer 40 the Stude-
baker factory: instantly killed.
GEORGE Kenyo~ 444 Lincoln way
Z. Mishawaka cannot be found.
George Senger. 202 Baker ST.,
AIishawaka. manager of Century
theater: skull wound. broken collar
bone. bruised arm and body.
Henry Fischer. 2O7 ~. seventh St,
Mishawaka. employe of Dodge fac
tory: broken arm. internal injuries
and bruises. injured eyes.
Two Cars Were Racing.
Racing west ON Division street
with another machine driven by
oscar j. Lamboitte 1909 West ST.,
employe Of the Temple theater and
containing George Forstbauer Nor
gan Jones and Fred Fischer. brother
of the injured man. the overland
left the road near the 200 block.
skidded down the short grade and
turned turtle. landing right side up
. pointing east
Bridges was dead when the second
machine. which from all reports.
had slowed up some time previous.
q Hon
The two injured men were both un-
conscious and Kenyon who had
been driving the machine. was not
70 be seen. It is feared by relatives
and friends iu Mishawaka that.
crazed by the accident. he threw
himself into the nearby Becks lake,
and a searching party left early
Tuesday morning for the scene Of
the accident
Came Here from Michigan.
Bridges a trimmer at the Stude-
baker factory. lived AT eos j.. Os-
born ST. city. comins here from
Mishawaka four months ago. lie was
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman
Bridges OF Hartford. Mich, and was
born in that place oct. %, 1872. His
parents. Bertha his wife. and two
brothers, William Bridges of Mish-
awake. and ollie Bridges. living two
and one-half miles east of Mish-
awake. survive him. He is also sur
vived by one sister. Mrs. Hazel
Burns of Hartford, Mich
Coroner DR. r. j. Swantz viii hold
an inquest wednesday afternoon at
the Harry l.. Yerrick morsue. The
body will probably he taken TO Hart
ford Mich, for burial
DR.. Edgar Myers. who attended
the two injured men at the Epworth
hospital. could not accurately state
the extent of their injuries They
are so weak and so badly bruised
that il is impossible 20 know how
badly they were hurt The back of
Senger's skull is bruised and cut and
IL is feared that 1t rs crushed. His
arm and other parts ot his body are
badly bruised. but he was conscious
though very weak
1--WE were racing. ana that is all
there was TO it" he was able to
eroan when we hit the bad road.
the machine started 20 so from one
side to the other Then il happen
ed. and that Is an ] knew"
Driver Loses Control.
Fischer has a broken arm, badly
bruised eyes minor injuries all over
his body and. it is feared. internal
injuries He was riding iu the front
seat with the driver Kenyon He
SAYS that Just before the accident he
noticed that kenyon stiffened in his
seat and beean to froth at the
mouth az one ga a tit. The machine
as a result got beyond his control
and topped over on the lower road.
The men had been driving about
the city most OF the evening. An
empty whiskey bottle found az the
scene of the accident corroborates
with other evidence TO show that
they had been drinkins. though il is
thought that no one was drunk But
a little over 81 was found I'm Bridges
pockets. though he had approd-
mately $50 at the beginning OF the
evening.
Nothing was thought az kenyon
absence from home. since he often
does not get i'm till late and ON these
occasions goes TO his room without
waking the rest OF the family AT
times too he stops over at South
Bend. where he is employed. and
does ma get home at an The police
CT the city are aiding I'm the search.
which was instituted 10y relatives.
when he could not be located this
morung.