Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1912 — Farmer Killed by Monon Train at Gosport. [ARTICLE]

Farmer Killed by Monon Train at Gosport.

In attempting to get off a Monon passenger train at Gosport last evening while it was still in motion, A. L. Martin, a farmer living near there, slipped and fell between the baggage and smoking cars. When the train was stopped his body was wound around the car axle, crushed and bleeding, but the man was still conscious. To extricate him it was necessary to jack up the car, take off the brakes and many of the connecting rods on the front trucks. For three hours, conscious, Martin lay under the car while the trainmen worked to get him out. He died an hour after he was released. The strain was delayed three hours and a half by the accident.