Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1907 — ONE MAN KILLED; SEVEN HURT [ARTICLE]

ONE MAN KILLED; SEVEN HURT

Clover Leaf Train Jumps a Switch and Crashes Into a Box Car—Casualty List. Charleston, 111., Aug. 28. —One man was killed and seven passengers dangerously injured in the wreck of a Clover Leaf passenger train at Bowman, twelve miles north of here. Two cars jumped a switch and crashed into a box car. P. E. Conkling, of Texarkana, Tex., was instantly killed. The injured are: Sliirdon Ross, KentißntJjilijd., heaTTetit and internally InJured: C. Provine, New Douglass, Ills* head badly bruised; Nelson Anderson, Ashmore, Ills., bead Injured, leg broken; .T. N. Green. Dana, Ind., ribs broken; James Green, Dana, Ind., leg and head Injured; Charles Whipman. Toledo. 0., head seriously cut; Harley Ferguson, Ashmore, 111., chest crushed. The injured, were taken to Broeton and Charleston.