Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-06-16 | Page 1 | Odd Automobile Accidents in Chicago

ODD AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS IN CHICAGO 5 AUTO CRASHES INTO BRIDGE AND IS SUSPENDED OVER RIVER. Chauffeur of Another Machine Has Epileptic Fit and Occupants Are Hurled Over Embankment. Chicago, June 16. Several odd automobile aut-omobile accidents occurred here yesterday. yes-terday. Six persons in an automobile were hurled over a fifteen-foot embankment with the machine near Hammond, Ind., when the chauffeur was seized with an epileptic fit and a taxlcab, In which were three men, crashed into a railing rail-ing of the Jackson street bridge and hung suspended over the river, A remarkable 1 feature of the accident acci-dent was that only one person wras injured. He was George Emmerllng, Sr., 85 years old. father of Nicholas Emmerllng, a wealthy resident of Hammond. Ham-mond. The elder Emmerling was enjoying his first automobile ride when the machine ma-chine went over the embankment. His injuries will prove fatal. The accident ou the Jackson boulevard boule-vard bridge was caused by the breaking break-ing of the steering gear "of the taxi-cab.