Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1909 — OTIS BEST BURIED HERE. [ARTICLE]

OTIS BEST BURIED HERE.

Otis Best, the young man killed In the street car accident near Hammond at 6:30 last Thursday evening, was a son of Isaac Best, the Roselawn liveryman, who used to live upon a farm south of Rensselaer, also In south of Wolcott. The young man was a Mason, and was burled here in Weston cemetery Monday forenoon under the rites of that order. Best lived at Hammond and was conductor of a Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago street car, and at

Indianapolis boulevard and 106th street crossing a fast Pennsylvania train crasned into the car, killing the conductor Instantly and injuring fifteen of the passengers, some quite seriously. Best had Just gone forward to the crossing and looked up and down the track, and seeing no train in sight, gave the signal to come ahead.. As he jumped up on the front platform of his car a fast train bore down upon it and threw the passengers in all directions and demolished the car. Best was 28 years of age, and unmarried.