Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1912 — Negro Killed at Monon— Man Jumps Out of Car Window. [ARTICLE]

Negro Killed at Monon— Man Jumps Out of Car Window.

Henry Dahncke was over from Monon today. He reports that a colored man named Joe Williams was killed by the milk train in the Monon yards at Monon Sunday evening. Williams had come with others from Louisville that day to work at steel rail laying for the Monon. The boarding car was in the yards near the coal chute. As the milk train pulled in Williams stood at the side of the track and made no effort to get away. The train was running at a rapid rate and he was struck by the engine and thrown a distance of fifty feet and killed instantly. Apparently the running board at one side of the engine struck his head and the scalp was cut almost from ear to ear and torn backward and hung down his back. One of his legs was broken. He had brought no clothing with him except what he had on his back and that was only a pair of overalls and a jumper jacket and little was known by his fellow workmen about him. Apparently he was about 35 years old. At about 1 o’clock Sunday night a man named Earl Pritchard, a passenger on an excursion train returning from Chicago, jumped out of a car window near Chalmers. The train backed up but no trace of Pritchard could be found and the extent of his injuries could not be learned. It is believed he was asleep when he jumped from the train.