Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1911 — A Young Grocer's Thrilling' Ride on a Car Step. [ARTICLE]

A Young Grocer's Thrilling' Ride on a Car Step.

Monticello Herald. \ A young grocer from Lafayette named Richard North had a thrilling ride on the Monon from Reynolds to that city Wednesday night of last week. He missed the milk train on which he intended to go home after attending to some business at Reynolds anJ concluded to board the midnight train. It does not stop for passengers at Reynolds, but as it slowed up for the crossing he climbed on a car step, hoping to get somebody to open the vestibule door. The train gathered speed and was soon on a fast run for Lafayette without a stop. He called and shouted, but nobody heard him, and the door remained closed. He clung to the rods and step, his hold growing weaker as the miles sped by, and finally when he could hold on no longer he dropped off in the darkness just north of the Monon shops in the edge of Lafayette He picked himself up and staggered into the yards with a bloody gash on his head and almost unconscious from his trying experience. He was met by a train caller, who took him to the Monon Y. M. C-. A. building, and from there he was taken in a patrol wagon -to his home, plad enough he was to get there, and no doubt he will have a wholesome fear of closed vestibules hereafter.