Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1906 — GEORGE HAD A CLOSE CALL. [ARTICLE]

GEORGE HAD A CLOSE CALL.

A_While at Goodland a few days ago the writer met Geo. O. Bales, now in the lumber business at Goodland, but formerly connected with the lumber business here and who is still a member of the Rensselaer Lumber Co., of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Bales just returned from a five weeks’ visit to his old home in West Virginia. George was sick with malaria while there and did not enjoy himself as well as he would otherwise. On the way home they were in a midnight wreck on the B. & 0., at Attica, Ohio, in which the engine and several of the front cars were ditched and the trucks of their sleeper also left the track. The engineer and four or five other people were killed.