Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1917 — No Train Acicdents Causing Death In Twenty Years. [ARTICLE]

No Train Acicdents Causing Death In Twenty Years.

The Monon railroad has completed its 25th year of operation since there has been a passenger killed in a train accident on its lines. The last persons killed were ksMed when a train struck a broken rail north of Crawfordsville and sent the coaches down a sixty-foot embankment, causing tlw death of four people. H. R. Kurrie, president of the. road, stated that there have been deaths resulting from the people crossing tracks and falling from cars, -but the wreck at Crawfordsville was the last accident for which the railroad could be held to blame. „ #

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