Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1912 — MAIL CLERK LOST LIFE IN MONON WRECK. [ARTICLE]

MAIL CLERK LOST LIFE IN MONON WRECK.

Fast Mall Crashed Into Accommodation Near Bedford Saturday, Rilling One and Injuring SeveraL A fast mail train on the Monon railroad crashed into an accommodation train at the sandpit siding, 4 miles south of Bedford last Saturday evening. J. P. McClure, the mail clerk on the accommodation, was killed. His home was at Bloomington. The train crews had orders to meet at Sandpit and the accommodation was standing still. While the switch was being operated the fast mail crashed into the stationary train head-on. When the crash came the accommodation train was hurled back 300 yards. The engineer and fireman on .the fast mail remained at their posts, tout escaped jnjury. Most of the injured passengers were on the accommodation, only a few on the fast mail train receiving slight injuries. A large body of students from the South, en route to the summer term of Indiana University, were on the northbound train. Edward F. Riley. of Philadelphia, a boiler inspector, was the most seriously injured among the passengers, having his left leg and right arm broken. He was taken to the Bedford hospital.