Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1905 — TRAIN RUNNING WILD [ARTICLE]

TRAIN RUNNING WILD

Goes Through Fart of Indianapolis at a Forty-Mile-an-Hour Gait. BEINGS UP IN A BAD WRECK Three Men Hurt, bat None Killed «• Incident of a Harry Call to Marry—State Items. Indianapolis, April 7.—A runaway freight engine started slowly In the C., H. and D. yards, In Moorefleld, two mile* west of the Union station, and gathered speed until it was running about forty miles an hour. Near the middle of the city came the engine like a black streak, over the White river bridge and taking to the track* known as the east-hound main tracks. Like a comet It darted over the various crossings, and when between Capitol and Senate avenue*, within a few hundred feet of the many trains in the Union station, It crashed Into L. E. and W. switch engine No. 6, which was standing on the track waiting for a switch to be turned. Baglas* Wracked s Msn Hart. The collision wrecked both englnea and partly wrecked a C., H. and D. P. M. express car which was standing on a switch and partly over the main track. George T. Fish, L. E. and W. switch engineer, waa cut about thehead, left side, arm and leg Injured; Otto A. Kminger, fireman, was skinned and bruised and slightly cut; Edward Collier, switchman, was slightly cut and bruised. Fish, who was the worst Injured, was taken to his home In tha city dispensary ambulance in the charge of Dr. Reed. All the hurt are Indianapolis men. CaaM of th* Runaway Uaknowa. The cause of the runaway is unknown. Railroad men said no one waa near the freight engine l when it stood ir. the yards ready to be-pulled into the roundhouse. The engine waa formerly a passenger engine. It was overhauled recently, and this morning It came into the yards after its first freight run. It was said that some one may have tampered with the throttle. Engineer Downey had left the engine only a few minutes, and It started under a full head of steam.

Wu Eager to Got Away. Witnesses said the engine fairly jumped in its apparent eagerness to get away, and at each jump the throttle seemed to be jarred farther open. The straightaway track leading to White river bridge lending material to the increasing speed and when the engine darted across the bridge and wound its way through the network of tracks near the Kiugan packing plant it was running almost at full speed. YOUNG COUPLE COULDN’T WAIT Caught the ’Squlro Sharing and the Caromoay Was Performed with Lather on Hie Face. Columbus, Ind., April 7. —Justice H. W. Nickerson \flas shaving himself la his office, and while his face was covered with a thick coating of creamy lather, the door opened and in came Charles Kamp and Mrs. Lillian Monroe. They said they wanted to get married, and could not wait until the justice bad finished shaving. The ’squire made a few “swipe*” at his face, and, thinking the lather was ail off he proceeded to perform the ceremony. He noticed that the couple seemed amused about something, but turned the thought away with the belief that they wdre merely happy over being married. After the ceremony he found that in his haste he had married the couple with but one side of his face washed, the other side being still white and creamy with lather. Hatter*' Strike la Settled. Wabash, Ind., April 7. —Officials of the United Hatters of North America have effected an adjustment of the differences between the Pioneer Hat works and the 300 employes who were thrown out of work when the plant suspended operations one month ago following the refusal of the workmen to accept a reduction in wages. The plant will resume at once as a closed shop, the workmen having accepted the reduction. ”■ tartar* of a Lifetime, Indianapolis, April 7.— Pickpockets secured $1,685 from Daniel Weaver, a teamster who had drawn the sum from a bank to pay for a home. The sum represented the savings of a lifetime. Weaver was Jostled while taking the elevator to go to an office to pay the money and get his deed, and believes the money was taken then. There la no clew. Bmli| of • Sanatorium. Fort Wayne, Ind., April 7.—The Abbot sanatorium, located immediately east of the city, burned, entailing a loss of $35,000; insurance, $20,000. Two adjoining dwellings caught fire from the heat and were burned. Lost, $2,000; partly covered by Insurance. Killed While Creeala* a Track. English, Ind., April 7.—Thomas B. Cummins, Jr., aged 4b years, was run over by a Southern train. He attempted to cross the track to assist *d Wiseman, whose horses had become scared at the train. He leaves A Widow and four children. s,