Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1910 — MONON PASSENGER TRAIN KILLS MAN AT ST. JOHNS. [ARTICLE]

MONON PASSENGER TRAIN KILLS MAN AT ST. JOHNS.

Foreman of Monon Painters Hit While Patting Hand Car Awaylind InStantly Killed. Passenger train No. 36, which passes through Rensselaer at about 5:30 o’clock in the morning, killed a man named Jackson, foreman of the Monon railroad gang of painters, at St. Johns station this Tuesday morning. Mr. Jackson was helping get the hand car off the track and from what can be gathered about the accident, he was at the back end of the car and had just shoved the car from the track when the engine struck him. Death is said to have been instantaneous, but as to whether or not the body was badly mangled is not known here. Jackson’s home was in Paoli. He was about 45 years of age and had been in charge of the Monon painting gang for several years. He was known to several men who have business at the depot, having been in charge last year when the depot was repainted.