Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1906 — MARRED BY A MISHAP [ARTICLE]

MARRED BY A MISHAP

Trolley Accident at Lafayette Brings Sadness to the G. A. R. Meet. MANY VETERANS ARE WOUNDED None Fatally, However, and Most Not Seriously—Motorman Is Killed— Indiana News Notes. Lafayette. Ind., May 24.—One man was killed and nearly seventy old soldiers were injured in a collision on the Lafayette Battleground electric railway. Both ears were croWed with veterans called here by theannual G. A. It. encampment. The collision took place at switch No. 53, in front of the Mortimer Levering farm. One car was coming to the city from Battleground, loaded with veterans, and the other was an outward-bound car, carrying old soldiers to the battlefield. Charles Itoudebush, the motorman on the south-bound car, had both legs cut off and he lived only a short time. Those Most Severely Injured. The most severely hurt were these: J. D. Clark. Medaryville, Ind., chest, shoulder and leg hurt, serious; Mrs. J. M. Leak, left wrist broken and internally injured, serious: Rev. H. E. Butler. Claypool, Ind., left leg crushed; A. A. Gillen, Roachdale, one leg fractured and the other hurt; D. 8. Wbltenack. Greenwood, left leg mashed and prol>ably broken; F. M. Pavey, Lebanon, jaw broken and side injured; Stephen Girard, Bourbon, Ind., nose broken, head and arms injured. All the injured but seventeen were able to leave the hospital lx>fore night, and none of the Injured will die. Didn't Stop the Grand Army. The Grand Army encampment of the G. A. R. had brought the largest crowd that had ever attended an encampment In Indiana. The street car accident brought sadness to the festivities, but did not Interfere with the parade in the afternoon. Five thousand veterans marched in the parade, and hundreds either rode in carriages or watched the procession from vantage points, too feeble to march In the hot sun. At the business session Fort Wayne was awarded the 1907 encampment. Neither Marion nor Terre Haute was a bidder when it came to a vote, and the decision was unanimous. The G. A. R. appointed a resolution committee.