Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1912 — Boy Injured Here Sunday Night Died in Lafayette Thursday. [ARTICLE]

Boy Injured Here Sunday Night Died in Lafayette Thursday.

Lafayette Courier of Feb. 22. Albert Sweet, the 17-year-old boy who was terribly injured Sunday night by Monon passenger train No. 3, at Rensselaer, died at 11:50 o’clock this morning at the Home Hospital. The lad suffered terribly from his injuries. He had been in Chicago looking for work and was on his way home when the accident happened. The boy was riding between the vestibules of‘the mail and baggage cars and when the train slowed down at Rensselaer he tried to get off. The vestibules suddenly closed in upon him and he was frightfully crushed about the hips and 1 abdomen. He was brought to Lafayette and taken to the hospital in the Evans ambulance. Dr. F. T. Hiner attended him and found that the injury was necessarily fatal. The youth’s intestines were crushed and he did not have a chance to recover. Young Sweet was the son of Mrs. Joseph Sweet, of 1724 Salem street He was born in Lafayette and spent all his life here. He attended Oakland school and then went to work. His father, Joseph Sweet, died last September, having been for eleven years engineer for the Merchants’ Electric Light Association. Young Sweet was last employed at the Duncan Meter Works. The boy left here Saturday afternoon for Chicago, where he expected to work. He was a well-liked young man and a boy of excellent habits. He was a member of the Sunday school of the Christian church. The widowed mother and four brothers, Dewilia, Walter, Harry and Arthur survive. The body was taken to the Frank & Son establishment and will be taken to the family home later.