Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1909 — SWITCH TAMPERED WITH [ARTICLE]

SWITCH TAMPERED WITH

Two Kifled In Wreck of Illinois Cen tral Fast Train. Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 9.—The lives of 145 passengers were menaced on the New Orleans and Chicago fast train on the Illinois Central when it crashed into an open switch and was thrown from the rails and partly overturned at south of Memphis Two persons were killed outright and thirty persons were injured, r The officials of the company declare that the opep switch into which the train crashed\was tampered with. Among those hurt were J T Talbert, vice president of the Commercial National bank of Chicago, and E W. Washburn, instructor in chemistry. University of Illinois