Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1913 — MONON TRAIN KILLS EX-POLICE CHIEF [ARTICLE]

MONON TRAIN KILLS EX-POLICE CHIEF

John Einsele, Ex-Chief of Polio? of Hammond, Killed While Crossing Monon Track. Another frightful Automobile accident happened Wednesday noon at the Clintbn street crossing of the Monon in Hammond, when aman was killed by a Monon flyer. The train, northbound, crashed over the crossing and into an auto truck containing John Einsele, former chief of police of Hammond, and Joseph Kolb. Einsele’s headj was split open. Death was instantaneous. Kolb’s skull was fractured and he cannot live at Saint Margaret’s hospital, where he was taken. This is tjse same crossing where Contractor John Prohl, ''of Hammond, was hurled into eternity a few weeks ago. The truck was driven by Einsele and Kdlb was sitting in the seAt next to him on the left. They were going east. The south gate was up while the north gate was slightly lowered, enabling the machine to p&ss through With no difficulty. The machine was barely moving and the attention of the occupants was centered on a lone northbound Erie switch, engine. They saw Flagman Bewanger signal them and thinking it wag* for the switch engine the machine was driven ahead, while their view was cut off from the north and south by box cars. The Monon train bore down upon them, the engine striking the right side of the truck and hurlipg humanity and machine, wood and steel in all directions. The train was traveling at such a rate of speed that it was not brought <tb a stop until it reached the Monon depot. Einsele, who was driving on the right side of the truck, was killed instantly. His head was split in two and, his body was found forty feet away in one of the broken wheels of the truck. Kolb was found In an unconscious condition ton feet away from Einsele’s dead body. He was rushed to St. Margaret’s hospital. He suffered b severe fractured skull and internal injuries and is not ’ expected to live.