Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1919 — TWO SCHOOL GIRLS INJURED [ARTICLE]

TWO SCHOOL GIRLS INJURED

TRAIN HITS BUGGY AND VEHICLE IS DEMOLISHED AT IDAVILLE. Monticello, Jan. 29.—Two girls, Miss Marie Faust, age fifteen, and Miss Merle Howell, age fourteen, were seriously injured yesterday evening in Idaville when a Pennsylvania railroad west bound passenger train crashed into a buggy in which they were riding. The vehicle was demolished. Both attend the Idaville school gnd were on their way home at the time of the accident. The buggy in which they were traveling was a closed one. The Pennsylvania recently Changed its time of arrival, now coming a few minutes earlier, and it is thought the girls had failed to remember this, thus not being on the watch at the road crossing. Miss Faust is the more seriously injured and physicians are not certain she will recover. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Harry. Faust, of near Idaville, while Miss Howell’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. Otto Howell, also near that place.