The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-05-29
THREE STRUCK
BY STREET CAR
Mrs. Frank Willems Rush
ed to Hospital-Chil-
dren Taken Home.
FIND BABY UNDER CAR

Three people narrowly escaped death
last night when they were struck by
a north bound street car at the inter-
section of Milwaukee avenue and North
Oak street. Mrs. Frank Willems, 257
Lake avenue, is in st. GATHERINGS hos
pital suffering from possible head in
juries and severe bruises to the body,
arms and legs.
Helen, eighteen years old, a daugh-
ter, and three-year-o Frank, Jr., are
at home under the care of physician.
Helen was bruised about the head. and
body, while the boy suffered injuries
to the head. He was pulled. from
under the car.
According to a statement made today
by Helen, the three left home shortly
before nine o'clock last night to go
to a Milwaukee avenue drug store.
They were crossing Milwaukee avenue
when suddenly they saw two automo-
biles coming south at high speed, one
car attempting to pass the other.
To have kept on walking you'd have
been to step directly in the path of
one of the machines. Mrs. Willems
and the children stopped on the car
tracks to allow the machines to pass.
Suddenly they found themselves lying
on the pavement.
Helen said that for a moment she
wasV dazed by the force with which
she was struck. When she picked her
self up, she said she saw the conduc-
tor of the car pulling her little brother
out from under the car. Her first
impression was that he had been killed.
Then she said she discovered her
mother lying perfectly still few
feet away and believed that she also
was dead.
She rushed to her mothers side and
found that she was still breathing.
Then the baby cried and she knew
that he too had escaped death
Bystanders who had come up phoned
for the police ambulance and the still
unconscious mother was rushed to the
hospital Helen said she took her
little brother and accepted ride home
in a machine which had stopped. She
Immediately got in touch with her,
father and told him what had hap
pened. He started at once for the
hospital, where he remained by his
wife's bedside during the greater part
of the night.
Helen said that she is positive that
the car gave no warning signal. She
said that had an alarm been rung they
would have heard it in time to escape
The father, Frank "Baldy" Willems,
is a candidate for sheriff in the COM
ing fall election, and is well known
in the city. Helen is employed as
a stenographer at the Offices of the
Kenosha Building and Loan association.
The electric company refused to
make any comment on the accident.
They simply stated that a report had
been turned in by the crew of the car
and that this report had been turned
over to the claim department. It's con-
tents, they said, could rot be divulged.
Marcus Thomson contractor at work
in Allendale subdivision, saw, with
his own eyes, two men steal his Nash
sedan just before II O'Clock this noon.
He summoned the police and mean
while started out himself on the trail
of the thieves. The entire police force
was notified by the sergeant at the
desk and a merry chase began. The
car was located at the Greiner-Nash
garage. 1t had been brought there
for repairs. When explanations en-
sued it developed that the garage men
had been sent down to Allendale to
get Parmentier's Nash sedan, saw the
Thomson car, took it for granted it
vr-oe aitD ann drove If off