Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1909 — FALLS FROM TRAIN AND IS KILLED. [ARTICLE]

FALLS FROM TRAIN AND IS KILLED.

R. H. Grow received word Saturday that his neice’s husband, Robert Richards, a conductor on a Panhandle freight running between Logansport and Columbus, Ohio, had fallen from his train Tuesday night and was killed. The accident, it seemS, occurred in going out of Chicago—he being off his regular run—but just how is not known. He is supposed to have been on top of the cars and was either knocked off or fell off. When found the hack of his head was caved in and one leg was broken in two places. He lived for some seven or eight hours after he was hurt, but was unconscious and unable to tell anything of how it occurred. He was about 30 years of age and leaves a wife but no children. Only a few days before getting the letter containing the sad news of his death, Mr. Grow’s had got a card from Mrs. Richards, stating that they were both well and enjoying life. They resided at Logansport.