Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1918 — BRAKEMAN LOSES LIFE [ARTICLE]

BRAKEMAN LOSES LIFE

MONON TRAINMAN MET DEATH UNDER PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES. Earl Hough, of Mono®, a brakeman on the local freight which left here Thursday evening about o:30 o’clock for Monon, was found dead this morning about 7 o’clock on the railroad track about half way between Pleasant Ridge and McCoysburg. Conductor Fred Ball reports that when they left Pleasant Ridge Thursday evening that Hough was standing on the platform on the reaT of the caboose. Ball had closed the swatch as they were leaving Pleasant Ridge. This is the last he saw of Hough. Hough’s absence was not noticed until Friday morning when the call was made at his home for him to take ns run back to Hammond today. As *e had not returned to his home a Boeder was at once sent north from onon and the body was found beween the rails at the point indicated tbove. _ The remarkable thing about the accident is that seven trains must save passed over the dead brakeman s >ody. The bSdy was badly bruised md mashed, but no members were levered. (When found this morning the body teemed dightly warm, indicating that he unfortunate man had not died intil sometime in the early morning. The deceased waS thirty-six years >f age and leaves an invalid wife. He iad been in the employ of the com»any for sometime and was in line sor conductor. He had made a num>er of trips as a supply in that capacity.