Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-08-01
KEENAN, EDITOR INJURED
IN HEAD-ON SIN A S Fl


Free Press, was badly injured Sunday
night and his brother, Fred Leonard, of
Prentice, was considerably bruised up
when the car owned by the latter and
an Overland owned by the Erickson
boys of Worcester met in a head-on
collision at the culvert near the VIM
Carlson home north of Prentice.
Messrs. Leonard and Fuller were
just returning from Worcester Lake
where they had been fishing and the
Erickson car was coming from the
south. 1t seems possible that both
drivers were crowding the center Of the
road little and in the glare of lights
were unable to tell just where the other
was At any rate the cars came to-
gether with a terrible smash, the Leon
ard car being completely wrecked and
the Erickson machine received busted
radiator, broken lights and windshield
and busted front wheel and running
gear.
clean from his car and when he went
the entire side of the car Travelled
along. Fred's left leg is solid mass of
bruises and many other parts of his
body were wrenched by the fall. His
brother did not come out of it as lucky
for the quick stop threw him into the
windshield and the breaking glass
played havoc with his head and face.
Mr. Fuller received cut on the left
side of his head which required eight
stitches to close. A part of his left ear
was cut clean off while many other
the miX-up.
Mr. Fuller was brought to DR.. Mac
Kinnon's Office in the VIM. Carlson car.
His wounds were attended to and if no
complications set in he will soon be as
good as ever.
The Erickson car was driven by
Gorge Erickson and besides his
brother. Oscar, carried two more pas
sengers. No one in this car was hurt to
any extent.-Prentice News-Calumet.
Editor Fuller summarizes the acci-
dent in the Kennan Tress Press as fol-
lows:
'Since our spectacular exhibition in a
life size automobile collision at Prem
tice last Saturday evening, we have no
fear of contradiction when we claim to
have a pretty fair working knowledge
of smash-ups of this character. We
dare say there are some who will inti-
mate that this little circus was Of our
own choosing, but we deny any such
charge as libelous in the extreme. We
swear we did not previously seek the
adventure, and now that it has been
thrust upon us, we can truthfully state
that anything along the same line will
be fastidiously stunned by us in the fu-
ture. Just now we can think of nothing
so distasteful as repetition. of our ex-
perience.
And we urge others to avoid such
practices Stop, gentle reader, and
consider how humiliating it must be to
go spraddling about wildly in the upper
spaces of car, with the top up, bend
4 ing divers braces and rods freely and
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have that same head thrust forcefully
through an unprotected plate glass
windshield to wreak a lasting devas
tatiOn among the various dials and
guages on the dash with your knees
and shins. We claim these gyrations
are more or less humiliating. to say
nothing of the injuries which must be
suffered by both yourself and the car
Right here we might state that through
our Herculean efforts, aided and abet
ted by an overgrown Overland, we
made rather neat and complete job OF
wrecking the car in which we had been
riding previous to the little fracas. And
aside from bad knee, a bruised shin
a cut four inches long in the head, the
| top of our left ear severed, eleven min
or holes in the scalp, a cracked rib 3
skinned hand and few slight bruises
on the body, we escaped from the wreck
almost unscathed."