Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1909 — FIVE RAILROADMEN KILLED [ARTICLE]

FIVE RAILROADMEN KILLED

Freight Trains Collide on Baltimore and Ohio Line. Seymour, Ind., Dec. 28.—Five men were killed in a collision between two freight trains on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railroad at Starksvine. Engineer Lawrence Amick, Fireman J. L. Routt, Fireman Jacob Emly, Brakeman Finley Lee and Head Brakeman Frank Hatt&baugh lost their lives. The high embankments on either side of the cut would not permit the trainmen to jump to places of safety.