Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1909 — TWO KILLED BY MORON TRAIN [ARTICLE]

TWO KILLED BY MORON TRAIN

Saturday Morning At the TwentyFourth Street Crossing, at Indianapolis. The southbound Monon train Saturday a buggy containing W. E. Dodd, wife and 17-year-old son at the Twenty-fourth -street crossing, and the father and son were instantly killed and the mother badly injured, but will recover. The family were on their way to the city to buy a new suit of clothes for the boy, who was to graduate from the Mallott Park school, and a cut of freight cars hid from view the fast passenger train until they were squarely on the track. It is claimed the train was running at a much higner rate of speed than the law provides at the time the accident happened, and it is a fact that the Monon trains do run at a fearfully high speed down near Indianapolis, probably better than a mile a minute down ajxmt Broad Ripple and nearer the city.. The man killed in this case was a prominent farmer and was only 39 years of age.