Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1917 — Monon Train Hits An Automobile Near Monticello. [ARTICLE]

Monon Train Hits An Automobile Near Monticello.

Monticello Journal. Addison J. Boutelle and George Shirck, of Galesburg, HL, have Providence alone to thank for the fact that they are tuda v beds at the Forbis hotel instead of shrouds and caskets. It was nothing short of a providential intervention that prevented them from being hurled, to death when an automobile in which they were driving from Kokomo to Galesburg was struck by the engine pulling an extra Monon train of twelve passenger cars at the Patton crossing, 2 miles southeast of the city last Saturday. They escaped without a single fractured bone in the body of either one, and with no serious hurts other than flesh wounds. The occupants of the car did not see the train or hear its approach until they were on the crossing. They were driving at only a f air rate of speed and it appeared from the cab of the engine they would get safely across. The auto cleared the track sufficiently to avoid the full impact of the blow from the engine, the pilot hitting the rear of the car. The men do not know much about what happenedafter that. /