Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1913 — BIG FOUR WRECK NEAR LAFAYETTE [ARTICLE]

BIG FOUR WRECK NEAR LAFAYETTE

Broken Trucks Threw Passenger Train in Ditch—One Killed and 48 More or Less Injured. Irwin W. Zunner, a traveling man for a brewery, was killed, and persons were injured, some so seriously that they will probably die, in a wreck on the Big Four railroad Tuesday afternoon. Passenger train No. 15, rurining 20 minutse late, is estimated to have been running 75 miles an hour and at “Grave Yard Curve,” a quarter of a mile from Stockwell, the entire train left the track and went into the diteh. It is believed to have been caused by a broken tnick or a broken wheel flange. That the death list is not very large seems remarkable. Relief trains were sent out from Indianapolis and several doctors from Lafayette responded to the call for aid. So far as is revealed by a list of the injured none are known in this city. Union B. Hunt, of Winchester, former secretary of state, and a past £rand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, was on the train. He was but slightly injured. Conductor Kennedy of the ill-fated train was a real hero. He was severely cut about the head and face but he went about aiding the passengers and refused to have his injuries dressed until every other person had been cared for. The railway mail clerks, Ollie Miller, of Lebanon; C. J O’Connor, of Cincinnati, and L. E. Tailentire, of Belleview, Ky., also worked hard in rescuing passengers and in making things as comfortable as they could for them.