Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — Couldn’t Kill This Drummer. [ARTICLE]

Couldn’t Kill This Drummer.

Albert Messerly,a Wheeling (W.Va.) drummer, was thrown off the platform of a Baltimore and Ohio train and over an embankment, and an undertaker, upon a doctor’s certificate that the man died of the shock, was preparing the body for shipment home, when Messerly recovered.