The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-07-29
AUTOS TURN[DOVER
Two Men Quite BadlyHur
Last Evening
GOING AT HIGH SPEED
Wheels Caught In Street Cal
Track Then the TrouIe
Followed

der and Willsam rIoppel OF 606-Record
street Mankato had very narrow es-
cape from being killed at the corner OF
Vine and North Broad streets laE
evening when DR.. Devitts Ford ma
| chine, which was being driven by
Mr.. STOPPED. turned turtle after strik-
ing the street car rails while going
at high rate of speed on the sharI
curve at that corner. According to
the statement Of Henry Murtaugh,
who was coming In from point near
Madison Lake about $50 the McDe-
witt car passed him running at high
rate of speed at the intersection OF
Madison avenue and North Broad
streets. Mr.. Murtaugh stated that
wabbling and leaning far over the
wheel, and after he passed Mr.. Muir
laughs car ran in a wavering line
taking up the entire street.
| Tire Was Of.
| One OF the tires apparently had
come off some time previous, accord
ing to the statement of Mr.. Murtaugh
and when the driver of the car tried
to negotiate the corner of Third and
Vine streets the rim of the wheel
| caught in the rails causing the acct
dent. In falling from the car, bystand-
ers state that Mr.. Stoppel's head hit
the ground with considerable force.
He was rendered unconscious for
time, but SOON came to. Later he
was taken to the Mankato clinic
where it was found that one of his
! finger badly cut by the broken wind
finger badly cut by the groken wind
| ner for the A. A. Zimmerman hard
ware store on North Front street,
will be laid up for some time.
Or. McDevitt Injured.
When thrown from the car DR..
McDevitt struck on his right shoulder
which was badly bruised and was
very YER I painful Immediately following
veterinary surgeon and located at
Good Thunder, was removed by Traf-
| fic Officer Henry Kachelmyer to the
, Hotel Heinrich, where he received
| medical attention. He is resting to-
day as easily as can be expected.
Officer Charles Bell, who lives q
| few doors north Of where the accident
occurred, fastened to the scene Of
the accident. Traffic Officer Rachel
myer arrived few moments later.
In searching the car both officers found
number OF bottles, which smelled
strongly Of moonshine and in sweep
ing up the parts Of the broken wind
shield another broken bottle was
found. The car was badly demolished.
and was later removed by te police
to one of the local garages.
Auto and Team collided.
George Watts of Sterling, driving
his team from Amboy to his home,
was run into by Ford car, owned
| by Harold Huber of Amboy and
| driven by John Juergens, about nine
o'clock last night.
The car ran into the horses, smash
ed the buggy and hurt one Of the
horses; Mr.. Watts was quite badly
bruised up. Huber has three broken
| ribs and is injured internally. Juer-
gems was badly cut up.
The car was damaged to some ex-
tent. There seems to be a dispute
between the men in the car and Mr..
Watts. Mr.. Watts siaims the lights
OF the car were out while the men
claim they were lighted. Mr.. Watts
wrong. side of the road.
Accident Near Blue Earth
Z. u. Ball, his son Byron and son.
in law Fred Kranz, witnessed a bad
accident Yesterday afternoon bout s 80
o'clock. The accident happened about
one mile out Of Blue Earth on the
Fairmont road. The Mankato men
were Immediately ahead of a Ford car
in which were riding FIVE men. They
were coming at quite q high rate OF
speed and in trying to turn a corner
the car turned turtle and the men wera
pinned underneath. :.
Messrs. Ball and Mr.. Kranz came AT
once to the rescue and rolled the car
on the men. They telephoned for q
physician at once. 1t was about q
half hour before the doctor arrived
and in the mean time the men did all
they could for the injured. The driv-
er OF the car was hurt the least.
Thought One Man Would Die
+ The physician stated that he thought
one of the men would die before they
could get him to a hospital All were
Blue EartG men with the exception Of
the driver. He was a stranger ia
Blue Earth and had been asked Sun
day morning by the four men to drive
them to Fairmont and back yesterday.
| The car was badly wrecked. The
top was all broken, one wheel smash
ed and three tires torn off of the car.
Blue Firth Mimi, July 22-The
men, who were injured In the accident
yesterday afternoon on a corner north
west d town were Ben Zenn, driver;
Taylor, Discoll and Thompson. Zenn
was seriously hurt. He received 8
very bad cut on the head 1t is report
cd that Zenn wasa driving the car.
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