The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18
three Kenoshans Seriously If Not Fatally Ii
jured in Auto Crash on Rowland
Avenue This Morning.
HURLED FROM CAR TO PAVEMENT
John KIuster Suffers Fractured Skull and Arthur and
Carl SwensOn Are Also Badly Injured When
Grey Bus Hits Ford.

Four Kenoshans narrowly escaped
death and three of them were serious
~ injured, one probably fatally, just
before seven o'clock this morning when
one of the large Grey buses, owned
and operated by the T. M. E. r. & L.
company, collided with Ford car at
the corner of Rowland avenue and
Market street. The injured, all occu-
pants of the Ford car, were taken in
the police ambulance to the st. Cath
crimes hospital where they received
medical attention.
They are:
John Kluster, probably suffering
from a fractured skull; had not
regained consciousness several
hours after the accident; condition
very critical.
Carl Swanson, left arm broken
and one leg badly crushed, will
recover.
Arthur Swanson, cut about the
head and arms.
Harry Swanson, driver of the
ear, was slightly cut about the face
and suffered from shock but was
not seriously enough injured to
remain at the hospital. All of the
men reside at 1872 Wescott street.
Hurled Into Curbing.
Police reports of the accident de-
clare that the Ford car was proceed
ing south on Rowland avenue and had
reached beyond the Market street rail
way tracks when it was struck by the
Grey bus, No. 2, driven by William
Thorton, 107 4th street, Racine. The
Ford was thrown into the curbing on
the west side Of Rowland avenue,
hurting all of the occupants out of
the car.
kluster was found unconscious on
the sidewalk several feet from the car
The others though dazed, were able to
crawl to their feet. Scores were rush
ing to work at the time of the ACCT
dent and large crowd gathered at the
scene and aided the victims of the &C.
cident.
Carries Wheel Several Feet.
The force Of the collision tore one
of the rear wheels off of the Ford and
It was carried by the bus more than
fifty feet and hurled into trap door
Of the Germano building with such
force as to crush it. The driver of
the bus kept it righted and it pro-
ceeded west but bumped into a tele-
phone pole about fifty feet beyond the
corner. 1t was going at low rate
of speed by that time and little dam
age was done to it.
The police ambulance was summon
ed Immediately to the scene of the ac-
cident and the injured hurried to the
hospital. A thorough investigation of
ne accident was also made by the
police,
Bus Crowded All Escape.
There We're a number of occupants
in the bus, all of them employees at
the Nash plant who live at Racine and
who daily come to Kenosha in the
bus and are taken to the Nash plant
Fortunately all of them escaped all
injury except the shock attendant ia
such an accident When the bus hit
the telephone pole there was some
flying glass but no one received more
than minor scratches from it,
Witnesses of the accident were I'M
able to give any estimate regarding
the speed at which the two cars were
travelling at the time of the accident
ALL however, were agreed that the
Ford had crossed the street railway
racks before it was struck by the bus
The Ford was completely wrecked.