Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1912 — Well Known Monon Brakeman Loses Power of Speech. [ARTICLE]

Well Known Monon Brakeman Loses Power of Speech.

John J. O’Herren, for the pa®t fifteen years a passenger brakeman on the Monon, has lost his voice in a peculiar manner. After leaving his train at Louisville Sunday he was stricken with paralysis of the vocal organs and was taken to a hospital. The physicians in the hospital were puzzled at his case and he was transferred to St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Lafayette. The physicians are of the' opinion that O’Herren’s affliction is due to the strain on his vocal organs in calling out the stations during the many years of his railroad experience. O’Herren has been in good health and can understand everything that is said to him. Hi® power of speech is, however, lost, and the physicians entertain but little hope that he will recover his voice.