Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1920 — GIRL WHIRLED TO DEATH. [ARTICLE]

GIRL WHIRLED TO DEATH.

Lafayette, Ind., March 11.—Her clothing caught in the drive shaft of a gasoline engine, Bertha Bybee, age nine, was whirled round. and round, her head repeatedly striking against a brick wall at the consolidated school in Clarkshill yesterday afternoon. When the engine was stopped the girl was dead, her head beaten to a pulp. Several girls who attend the school were playing near the engine which operates a water pump. Several of the girls had been sitting on the shaft, and when the Bybee girl sat down her clothing became entangled. The other girls were frightened so badly that they did not shut off the engine, but ran into the school building. The janitor heard their screams and ran to the engine. The dead girl was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Bybee. Besides the parents she is survived by a brother and a sister.