Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1909 — BRAKEMAN WILSON HURT. [ARTICLE]

BRAKEMAN WILSON HURT.

Harry Wilson, rear brakeman for conductor Otto Shields on the Chicago local, was 'badly injured in the Monon yards Friday night /by being hurled with terrific force against the wall of his caboose. Wilson had finished his work and was changing clothes in the caboose when a switch engine backed against the local train with unusual violence. He was thrown head foremost across the car and against the opposite wall. When discovered he was unconscious and bleeding profusely from a gash in his head. He was taken to a hospital in Lafayette.