Surnames: Bounnel, Emmert, Miller and McCoun
Jamestown Press
Jamestown, Boone County, Indiana
Friday, 6 October. 1911 page 1

STRUCK BY TRAIN

Machine of J.M. Emmert, of Jamestown, Damaged in Accident

The Lebanon Reporter says,- “At the South Lebanon street crossing late yesterday afternoon a Big Four freight struck and badly damaged a Buick automobile owned by J.M. Emmert, of Jamestown. Mr. Emmert had driven a party of Jamestown ladies __ Lebanon to attend the county meeting of the Rebekahs. In the party were Mrs. Henry Tu___r, (may be Turner) Mrs. T. A. Bounnel, Mrs. Wol McCoun and Mrs. Richard Miller. Mr. Emmert
Was driving up South Lebanon street. When the machine reached the Big Four tracks, the ladies saw a Big Four freight train approaching from the west. They became very much excited, and their excitement communicated itself to Mr. Emmert. Notwithstanding the face that Mr. Emmert had plenty of time to cross and had received the sign of the flagman to proceed, the cries of the women confused him and he clamped on the emergency brake. The engine of the automobile went “dead” and the machine guided onto the railway track and stopped. The ladies jumped out the car and had ample time to get out of harms way. Mr. Emmert also jumped out and made an unsuccessful attempt to push the auto off the track. The train almost stopped when it struck the machine, the engine pilot shoving the auto out of the way. One wheel of the machine was broken and the fender on one side was smashed.”

“ Repairs on the auto were not completed until today. The four women who made the trip in the machine returned home in other autos”

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