Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1909 — GIVES UP LIFE TO SAVE PASSENGERS [ARTICLE]

GIVES UP LIFE TO SAVE PASSENGERS

Flagman Killed While Trying to Prevent Train Wreck. Chicago, Jan. 15.—One man was killed and six persons were injured, one probably fatally, in a collision between two sections of the "China and Japan fast mail” of the Chicago and Northwestern railway at the Union street crossing. The dead man was George Van Dusen, flagman on the first section. He sacrificed his life in an attempt to stop the second section. His body was found under the wreckage. Charles Johnson, thirty-five years old, Sioux City. la., a passenger, on his way to Sweden, was taken unconscious to the county hospital.