Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1913 — Two Men on a Lumber Wagon Hit by Train. [ARTICLE]

Two Men on a Lumber Wagon Hit by Train.

Lafayette Journal. While the southbound Monon local freight was doing some switching in Crawfordsville yesterday morning, eight of the cars got away and ran into a lumber wagon that was standing partly on a crossing. Clifford Pickman and Charles Love, Of Crawfordsville, who were in charge of the wagon, were injured. Pickman had both legs broken and Love had one of his legs hurt. Conductor Charles J. Barford, who was in charge of the train, was taken to police headquarters, but satisfied the authorities thar he was not to blame for the accident and was released. George Yuill was engineer of the local.