Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1920 — MONON FIREMAN KILLED IN FALL [ARTICLE]

MONON FIREMAN KILLED IN FALL

Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 25.—Charles Scharum, aged 30, a fireman on the Monon railroad, was injured, seriously when he fell from the tender of. a locomotive at the railroad shops here today. - ' Scharum had- just arrived at the shops after his regular run and was about to step from the tender, when he slipped and fell into a pit, landing on his head. He was taken to St. Elizabeth’s hospital, where and X-ray examination showed that his neck was broken, two vertebra being fractured and the spinal cord pearly severed. Attendants at the hospital say there is little chance of his recovery.