Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1917 — CHAS GROW IN TRAIN WRECK [ARTICLE]

CHAS GROW IN TRAIN WRECK

NO. 37 TURNED OVER NEAR INDIANAPOLIS SUNDAYNO DEATHS. Charles Grow, mail clerk, of this city, had charge of the mail car on train No. 37, which passes through this city at 11:18 a. m., Sunday, and which was one of the cars turned over in the wreck of the train, 12 miles south of Indianapolis. No fatalities occurred and only a few suffered slight cuts and bruises. The train was composed of five steel coaches, all of which left the rails, the first two, the baggage car and the smoking car, turning upside down, and the remaining cars being turned on their sides. Only eight persons were found who suffered bruises or cuts from broken glass. The minor injuries were treated and in a short time provision had been made for the victims to resume their journey. ’ Another passenger train on the other side of the wreck was brought up ajid the passengers were transferred. The cause of the wreck has not been determined but it is the general belief that the heavy engine caused the rails to spread, the engine and tnder being the only parts of the train which did not leave the rails. When officials were apprised of the fact that the cars had turned turtle, it was expected that a number of passengers would be dead or seriously injured. The officials attribute the absence .of the injuries to the steel coaches, all of which held together and will be almost as good as new when righted. Officials declare that if the coaches had been of the old wooden type at least some of them must have been broken and death and injury would have followed. Mr. Grow was not injured in the least but states that he was pretty badly scared.