Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1913 — FIVE KILLED BY HOOSIER LIMITED [ARTICLE]

FIVE KILLED BY HOOSIE R LIMITED

-Sunday Evening Monon Train Struck Auto Near St. John, Killing 6, Injuring 3. / ■7. » "v The Hoosier Limited northbound Sunday evening struck an automobile near St. John and killed five people and injured three others. The dead: Alexander Rubin, 35 years old, 1515 West Sixty-Third street, proprietor of a 5 and 10 cent store at 1617 West Sixty-Third street. - Mrs. Mary Rubin, his wife, 30 years old.' Rubin, their 2y 2 -year-old daughter. Mrs. Leo Rubin, wife of one of the injured men, 28 years old, 1249 West Madison street. Leo Rubin, Jr., son of Mrs. Leo Rubin, 6 years old. The injured: * Isadore Schiller, 23 years old, 1515 West Sixty-Third street, a real estate dealer, cut and bruised on the head, face and body. Miss* Amanda Kahn, 2b years old, 1204 West Sixty-Third street, cut on head and face. Leo H.‘ Rubin, the husband of Mrs. Leo Rubin, 32 years old, 1249 West Madison street, a pawnbroker at 1133 West Madisoh street, was bruised on the body. The* party had been motoring to Cedar Laks, Ind. They were returning to Chicago at the time of the accident. The crossing on which the car-was struck by the train is between Cedar Lake and St. Johns, Ind. The accident occurred at twilight. The Rubin party and their friends had been driving slowly, it is believed, and because of the dusk had been unable to see the approach of the limited. Their oar was driven toward the crossing, apparently without any thought of the impending danger. Just how the touring ear happened to meet the speeding engine could not be clearly ascertained. Engineer Balanger leaned from his cab, hut because of the. approaching darkness was unable to see far ahead. He discovered the motor party on the track only a moment before the collision occurred. It is believed that just as the machine reached the crossing engine trouble developed and the car was stalled.. The motorists had no time to leap from their seats before the engine bor,e down upon them. Passengers on the limited felt the shock of the collision' The engine driver reversed the engine and the heavy locomotive fairly reeled backward whence response to the reverse came. A moment after the train had

been brought* to a stop the passengers began to swarm to the track. The sight that met their eyes was ghastly. Pieces of wreckage were strewn everywhere. Torn parts of clothing could he seen close to the right-of-way. The mangled bodies of the dead and of the injured had been hurled to either side of the tracks. Women passengers rushed upon the seene, in spite of the efforts of the men and of Conductor Robert H. Strong to force them hack to the coaches. Clothing was torn into bandages for the three injured. For half an hour crew and passengers worked upon the scene, then the three injured were carried into a Pullman coach, where a temporary hospital had been fitted out. Several physicians on the train administered to their hurts. The bodies of the five- dead also were carried aboard the train. A coach was vacated to'receive them. The accident is perhaps the most fatal of its sort that has occurred near Chicago in years. An inquest and investigation will follow as soon as a report can be made up and sent to the eoroner and officials of the railroad.