The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-09-07
BROKEN BONES
END HOLIDAYS
Mrs. Claire Olsen of Chica-
go Hurt in Accident on
Monday Night.
j. BLOOM NEAR DEATH
Bloom Accident on Sunday Was
the Result of Speeding
on Geneva Road.

Broken bones and aching bodies
Swere the toll added up by the speed
king today, when lot of the subjects
who pay tribute to His Majesty and
boast the ability to get there faster
than anybody else. lay on their backs
in hospitals, unable even to crawl.
One accident on the Geneva road
Saturday night was indirectly the
cause OF another. Hearing that Art
/ Molinaro had been injured, four men
/ started out from Paddock's Lake to
his rescue when they themselves be-
came seriously caught in an accident
and were more injured than Molinaro.
Going at High Rate of Speed.
Art Molinaro was going west on the
Geneva read Saturday night, driving
Paige car when Otto J. Wellington
of Chicago driving Templar and go
ing north on the Milwaukee road coll
lided with him. According to the
statement of sheriffs men, both cars
were going at very high rate of
speed, and the collision was a hard
one. The cars turned turtle a couple
of times and Molinaro was hurt.
Molinaro, however, maintains that
he was not travelling "a an excessive
speed and that more serious injury
was avoided by reason of this fact.
At Paddock's Lake little later a
group of men learned that something
had happened to Molinaro. Jim Bloom
and Iver Bloom, who had gone to Pad
docks Lake in the Nash car of Joe
Jensen, asa Market street, took Jen-
sens car without a by-your-leave of
the owner and started in the direction
of the place where Molinaro was said
to be injured. The Nash ran into the
culvert on the Geneva road two miles
west of Bristol Corners. The car was
going at so high a rate of speed that
when it struck the culvert it turned
turtle endways, perfect somersault,
head first.
Three Men Hurt.
liver Bloom, the driver of the car,
also known as cap" was not to be
found when the sheriff's men came
looking for him, and it was said by
the sheriff that he had gotten away
without giving aid to the injured.
With him were James Bloom and Paul
and Emerson Wiedman of Woodwork.
James Bloom sustained a broken leg
and was taken, to st. GATHERINGS hos
pital Paul Wiedman's knee-cap was
broken and Emerson Wieldman sus-
tanned broken collar bone.
On Sunday, September 8, Frank
Swartz, SO South Fremont avenue,
driving Paige touring car, collided
with D. H. Fairfield, 971 Rowland ave-
nue., driving new Nash touring car.
The encounter took place on the
Geneva road. Both cars were dam
aged but the occupants escaped with
out injury.
John G. Joachim collided with Wal
ter Koshkowich, 10 North Congress
street, on the Burlington road Satur-
day night, but nobody was hurt.
Auto Hit by Train.
One of the most serious accidents
Of the holiday took place Monday
evening just after six O'Clock when a
Paige touring car owned and driven
by Mrs. Axel Johnson, 4S44 North AL
bany avenue, was struck by south
bound Chicago and Northwestern pas
senger train at the Sheridan road
crossing. Mrs. Carl Olsen, also of Chi
cago, was thrown from the car and
seriously injured She is at the Keno
sha hospital suffering from a fractur-
ed arm and fractured collarbone.
All of the other occupants of the
car jumped from it and escaped injury.
The car was hurled to the side of the
tracks, completely wrecked.
Killed Engine on Tracks.
Mrs. Johnson, the driver of the car,
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