Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1907 — A VERY CLOSE CALL. [ARTICLE]

A VERY CLOSE CALL.

Mrs. Mary E. Lowe, and brother Chas. Bussell of Hanging Grove tp., returned Monday from a business trip to Wisconsin. They were in a railroad wreck on the C. M. & St. P. Ry., near Forest Junction Sunday morning at about one o’clock in Which the fireman on the passenger train was scalded to death and the engineer was so badly injured that his death was expected. Their train ran into the rear end of a freight, killing the rear brakeman and smashing up freight and passenger cars considerably. Mr. Bussell and Mrs. Lowe were in the fifth boach back and escaped with a few bruises, although the passengers in the forward cars were all more or less bruised and injured. The. rear brakeman was asleep in the caboose and had failed to go back and flag the passenger, hence the wreck.