Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1911 — CORTEGE SLIPS DOWN BANK. [ARTICLE]

CORTEGE SLIPS DOWN BANK.

Three Carriages Overturned While Funeral Director Saves Hearse. Elwood, Ind., July 24. —Three carriages traveling just behind the hearse Which was bearing the body of Fred Moore, a local young man, to the cemetery, slipped down a steep embankment just south of the city this afternoon, ail overturning and spilling the occupants. The hearse, the rear wheels of which slipped over the embankment, was saved only by the funeral director and his assistants leaping to the ground and pushing against it with their shoulders. None of the occupants'of the carriages was injured, hut all were so shaken up thej% were unable to attend the funeral services.