Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1908 — MANY TRAGIC DEATHS HERE. [ARTICLE]

MANY TRAGIC DEATHS HERE.

Rensselaer is certainly having her share of tragic deaths this season. Only a few months ago Tom Moody was killed by a tree falling on him. Next came that of John Roche, a Monon brakeman, being cut to pieces by falling under the cars at the depot. Then came John Yates being ground up under a train here only afcout three weeks ago. And now the drowning of David Wheeldon, making the fourth tragic death here in the past few months. Going back a little further and we have the death of Joe Miller, who was crushed to death in a steel plant at Hammond, which occurred ■ last October, and the killing ,of W. O. Moore’s little son in being thrown from a horse.