Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1917 — TRAIN KILLS BRAVE SOLDIER [ARTICLE]

TRAIN KILLS BRAVE SOLDIER

Escapes Shells for Months in Trenches in Feaacf, fThea^ Faints on Station Platform. London—Tired, faint from hunger and sleeplessness, Copt. Clive Durden of the Australians arrived in Victoria station from France. While walking along the platform he fainted, fell under the train and was run over. He had been fighting continually;in the most dangerous places in France for six Jnonths unscathed and was coming to England to rest. When he was picked up-after the accident Captain Durden was conscious. “What -rotten luck,” he said, “to miss a million shells and get done in by a toy locomotive.” In an hour he was dead.