Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1912 — “Big Four” Had Bad Wreck At Newcastle Tuesday Night. [ARTICLE]

“Big Four” Had Bad Wreck At Newcastle Tuesday Night.

The “Big Four” had a serious passenger wreck at Newcastle Tuesday night. The twenty-four-hour New York train crashed into the head-dhd of an extra freight. John C. Milam, of Indianapolis, the freight engineer, and a tramp named, Reno E. Cronkhite, of Portland, Oreg., were killed art three persons severely injured and several others slightly injured. The freight train had been standing on the main track for 30 minutes waiting for the passenger train to pass. The conductor understood that the passenger train was to run on a different track. The freight engineer was fast asleep in his cab when the passenger train crashed intothe freight. All the doctors of Greencastle were called to the scene of the wreck and the DePauw students were also pressed into service to act as aids ajid as nurses.