| Show TREE STOPS BLAZING AUTO IN A MAD DASH I CHAUFFEUR RAMS BURNING MACHINE J MA-CHINE INTO TREE TO SAVE l LIVES OF GIRLS P Chicago Five Northwestern university uni-versity women students were rescued from n flaming automobile by a tree Their screams of terror as the burnIng burn-Ing machine sped along Sheridan road attracted the attention of hundreds of pedestrians who expected to ECO them burned to death t I The chauffeur Otto HInvucek finally final-ly succeeded In slowing the machine up somewhat by applying the brakes althpugh he was unable to release the clutch Then he steered the machine Into a tree throwing all the girls out None of them was seriously Injured The clothing of Miss Laura Brown d one of the quintet who had hired t vwr 1 t t V m Y2 r Ili 1 4 Succeeded In Reducing Speed and Dashing Into a Tree the machine from an Edgewater garage was In flames when tho chauffeur chauf-feur stopped the machine with the aid of the tree They were extinguished extin-guished by Hlavacek add the other girls after Miss Brown had fainted from fright Miss Brown Ruth Palmer Agnes BIckell and two others whose names were not learned rented the machine for a few hours drive They had been riding about an hour when at Sheridan I Sheri-dan road and Church street they saw that the rear part of the machine was on fire The girls would have Jumped out of t the car which was traveling more than thirty miles an hour had not Hlayacek restrained them The situation situa-tion was becoming serious when he finally succeeded In reducing speed t and dashing into the tree The girls were taken home by passing automobilists auto-mobilists Hlvacok succeeded in quenching the flames after tho machine ma-chine had been damaged t |
