The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-08-23
NEAR DEATH ON POSTER HILL.
Four People Have Narrow Escape When
Auto Rolls Like Ball Before
1t Goes Into the Ditch.


Four people, two from Kenosha and
two from Chicago, airted with death on
Foster Hill on the Geneva Road late
Sunday afternoon and managed to get
away with it without the coroner being
called. The four people were picked
up by passing automobiles after the
small ear in which they were riding
had rolled down the hin like BAH and
had been left mass of twisted iron
and wood in the ditch at the south side
of the road hundred feet from the
foot of the hill. The injured:
Martin Kathalir, driver of the
car at tbs Kenosha hospital with
a great piece Of flesh torn out of
his left leg and several had sprains
and bruises. He will recover.
Miss Mary Gerten, Chicago.
Badly bruised about the arms
and shoulders.
Miss Anna Stelges, Chicago.
Badly cut on the leg and one arm
sprained and bruised
Benjamin Bass Of Keuosha, the
other member of the party, escap-
ed with slight bruises.
The two young women had come up
from Chicago to spend the day with
friends in Kenosha and on the invita-
tion of Mr.. Bass they had made trip
to Twin Lakes. Kathalir who lives at
461 Newell street, had been employed
to drive the car to Twin Lakes and
return. The trip TO the lakes was
made without incident with the excep-
ton of the fact that the passengers in
the car had protested on account Of
the fact that the car was running too
fast. The party left Twin Lakes for
home just after five O'Clock and the
Foster Hill was reached just before
six o'clock. AS the car started down
the hill Bass and his two companions
protested with the driver against the
speed ofsthe ear. 1t was claimed that
it was running at rate close to fifty
miles an hoRr, but this is denied by
the driver. Half way down the hill
the car began to sway from side to side
and the two young women and Bass
made an effort to leap from the auto
mobile. Just about this time it turned
over. The young women and Bass
were thrown free Of the car to the road
when it turned over, but Kathalir re-
manned at the wheel as Che car plunged
down into the ditch. People who
saw The aesident declare tbsb tSe
automobile turned over three times
before it reached the ditch.
The two young women were uncon-
seious when they were picked up but
they were revived and brought to the
home of friends in Renosha- Kathalir
was extricated from the debris of the
automobile. He was terribly cut and
bruised and it was thought that he had
been killed. He was revived after
some time and brought to the hospital.
The car was brought in later in the
evening and it is declared that the
damage done to it while considerable
was not nearly as great as might
have been expected concerning the
conditions of the accident
The two women injured were Treated
by DR.. P. P. M. Jorgensen at the home
of Police Officer Emil Clausen on Sun
day evening, and while still suffering
from their injuries they were able to
return to their home in CHICAGO this
afternoon. People who witnessed the
accident declared that it was nothing
less than a miracle that any of the pas
sengers in abe automobile escaped death.