Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1912 — Monon Pays $1,OOO For the Death of Brakeman in Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

Monon Pays $1,OOO For the Death of Brakeman in Rensselaer.

The Monon Friday settled for the death of Otto Hemphill, the brakeman killed at Rensselaer in 1910, by the payment of SI,OOO and costs of the case. James Burk, the administrator, brought suit for. SIO,OOO in the Carroll circuit court at Delphi, and the case was up for hearing this week, when the compromise put an end to the case. Hemphill was killed near Rensselaer, when the engine, on which he was riding, collided with an empty freight opr. The grounds upon which the suit was brought are extracts from railroad laws, which say that no obstacle shall be allowed to stand on an open switch, and which demanded that a car, damaged as the freight car wps, should either be repaired as soon as possible or removed from the tracks. The couplings on the car were broken. When the engine bunted against it, it struck flat against the end and Hemphill, standing on the cowcatcher, had both legs crashed, dying from the shock. The ease was taken on a change of venue from White county to Carroll county. ; . : ■