The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-02-13
NARROW ESCAPES
IN AUTO THRILLS
Two Collisions on Roads
About Kenosha Threaten
Seventeen People Sat-
urday and Sunday.
| AUTOMOBILE OVERTURNED

Automobile colIS1onS on roads about
Kenosha on Saturday and Sunday even
ing put into jeapordy the lives Of
seventeen people but through some
happy edictsof fate, not one of them
were seriously injured although four
badly broken automobiles were towed
into garages in the city awaiting re-
pairs. The most serious of the acct
dents took place on the North Shore
road near st. George cemetery Just af-
ter seven O'Clock Sunday evening when
car driven by man by the name of
Larsen, said to be a Kenosha man, ran
into an automobile driven by P. G..
Torrey, former register of deeds. The
Torrey automobile was turned over and
Mr.. and Mrs. Torrey, Mrs. Herman
Windorf and Miss Ivy Russell, the pas
Esengers in it, were buried under the
Wreckage of the car, but all of them
escaped with severe but not serious in
juries. Mrs. Torrey and Miss Russell
were pretty well buried under the
wreckage of the automobile and they
suffered considerably from shock be-
fore they were taken from under the
wreckage Of the car.
Mr.. Torrey and the members Of the
party had attended a lecture in Racine
and they were returning to Kenosha.
The automobile was running at a very
low rate of speed. just before Torrey
reached the ST. George cemetery the
automobile driven by Larsen, came up
from the south. Both automobiles
turned out for passing but when Larsen
pulled his automobile back to the road
he pulled it too rapidly and it caught
the rear wheel of the Torrey car and
turned 1t over. There we're two young
women in the automobile with Larsen
but they escaped without injur>. Both
the Larsen and the Torrey cars were
badly damaged. Members of the Torrey
party were picked up by a passing au-
tomobile and brought to the Torrey
home on Congress street. Physicians
were called to attend the injured
women but this morning it was said
that their injuries were not cf seri-
Jus AdVuIc.
The other accident occurred on the
Sheridan Drive about three miles south
OF 1Kenosha just after five 'clock Sat
urday evening when an automobile
driven by 3 F. Stahl and containing
ten people, was in collision with a new
Kissel roadster driven ~ colored
chauffeur. The chauffeur was taking
the automobile from Milvs ukee to Chi
cago and the occupants of the Stahl
machine said that he was under the in
fiuence of liquor. Stahl saw the other
automobile coming at a high rate of
speed and pulled his automobile far off
the side of the road almost into the
ditch but even with this there was not
room for the other man to pass and the
Stahl car vas struck and badly dam
aged. Fortunately none of the ten
people were injured. In the car with
Mr.. and Mrs. Stahl were two guests
and their six children.
The Kissel car was brought into
Kenosha ano it is expected that an ac-
ton in court will follow to settle the
responsibility for the accident.
Following the collision stahl man
aged to get hold Of the negro chauf-
feur and held him until the patrol
could be summoned from the city and
the man who gave his name as cellar
ence Ferguson was arrested on charges
of reckless driving. He said that the
automobile was the property of Harry
Branstetter in Chicago and Branstet
ter is expected to be here this after
noon. Ferguson will be taken into
court for a hearing before the dav is
over. The arrest sheet charged that he
was operating the automobile in q
reckless manner while under the in
fuence of liquor.