The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-06-08
FOUR. INJURED
In AUTO SPILL
Local Men Terribly Hurt
When They FIirt With
Death Sunday.
CAR TURNS TURTLE

Four Kenosha men were injured,
two of them very seriously injured
when an automobile running at high
rate of speed, turned turtle on the road
between Brass Ball Corners and Salem
just before two o'clock Sunday after
noon wrecking the automobile and
burying the men under the wreckage
of the car. The injured:
T Arthur Kelly, TO2 Dayton street,
in st. GATHERINGS hospital terribly
cut and bruised and possibly suf-
fering from a fracture of the
skull, He did not regain consci-
BUSINESS until late Sunday night.
Joseph Keyes, 437 Edward
street, foreman in plant of Nash
Motors company. Left arm frac-
tured near the shoulder and sew
eral severe cuts and bruises He
was unconscious for a long while;
will recover.
Russell Mainland, $50 Park
avenue, right arm fractured and
right shoulder dislocated and
severe scalp wound.
Ray Wagner, cut and bruised,
but not seriously injured.
Speed is Cause of Accident.
Kelly, Reyes and Wagner were mem
bers of the party which left Kenosha
on Sunday morning to go out for day
at Paddock's Lake. Mainland with
two friends have a cottage at Paddocks
Lake and the other men had stopped
at the lake to take dinner with them.
Mainland had charge of preparing the
dinner and after dinner was over the
other men at the camp went to the
work of clearing away the dishes. -. KEEL
ly suggested a trip to Salem to get
some cigarettes and Mainland was in
vited to go along as a passenger.
Kelly was at the wheel when the au-
tomobile, new Nash car, driven only
a few hundred miles, left the camp.
The road to Brass Ball corners is I'M
der construction and Kelly drove it
with great care, but when the turn
was made into Salem he opened up
the motor and started to run into the
village at high rate of speed. Main
land protested against the speed and
it was declared that the car was
taking the road at a speed close to
fifty miles an hour.
Hit Depression In the Road.
While the road is wide and in fair
condition there were several bad ruts
in the road and the car, travelling at
the high rate of speed, struck one of
these ruts and went into the air like
an airplane. 1t crashed through sew
eral fence posts and struck a tree,
breaking the tree off near the roots
and then turned over. Wagner and
Mainland, who were in the rear por-
tion of the car, were thrown out when
the car struck the tree. Keyes and
Kelly in the front seat were buried
under the wreckage of the car. The
car was so completely demolished that
it was found necessary to jack the
wreekage up with two jacks before the
two injured men could be removed
from under it. Although suffering
from severe injuries Mainland and
Wagner aided other people who hap
pened to come along the road in re-
leasing their companions from under
the wreckage of the car.
Believed Kelly Was Dead.
Hurried calls were sent to Kenosha
for a doctor and an ambulance and DR..
s. w. Murphy responded to the call.
DR.. S. w. Fletcher was called from
Salem. When Kelly was finally taken
put from under the wreckage Of the
car it was believed that he had been
fatally wounded, but later he was par
TALLY revived. Keyes had been so
dazed by the injuries and the shock
that he was unconscious for some time
after the accident. Kelly was brought
to the hospital in an ambulance while
Reyes was able to ride to the hospital
in the ear with DR.. Murphy. 1t was
planned to make an X-Ray eXamina-
ton of the injuries of Kelly today as
It was feared that he suffered from
fracture at the base Of the skull.
Reyes was much improved today and it
was expected that he would be out Of
the hospital before the day was over.
Car Completely Demolished.
The automobile which was the prop
arty of Reyes, was completely de-
molished and it was declared that it
would not be possible to rebuild it.
The men in the car when they were
able to make statement, admitted
frankly that the car was being driven
at such high rate of speed that when
it struck the depression it was impos
sible to hold it in the road.
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