Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1910 — BAD WRECK AT LOWELL. [ARTICLE]

BAD WRECK AT LOWELL.

George Gallagher, Monon Brakeman, Killed.—Two Others Injured. In a railroad wreck at Lowell Sunday rhorning at about 6 a. m., George Gallagher of Logansport, a brakeman on a through freight north bound, was killed, while the engineer and fireman on passenger train No. 4 suffered injuries and bruises about the face, arms and back. None of the passengers were injured. It is said that freight train No. 90 became stalled on the grade south of Lowell and the engineer of the unfortunate freight helped them over the hill. When he got back to his train he could not' move it. He tried to get half of it cars at a time in on the siding, and just as the last half was : being pulled in, - No. 4 came j around the sharp curve, the enJ gineer on the passenger train | not seeing the freight until he I was within four car lengths of | the caboose, and did not have j time enough to even set the ' brakes, or to jump from the ! swiftly moving train. It seems that while the j freights were trying to get in 1 the clear, Gallagher had been sent to the rear of the freight to flag the passenger train, bui for some unaccountable reason had entered the caboose and fell asleep. He was about 30 years of age, and his home was in Logansport. The engine of the passenger | train was thrown completely from the track, the tank fell directly across tjie rails, and the baggage and mail cars were also derailed. The day coaches and sleepers all remained on the track. The caboose on the freight train was completely demolished, and several other cars near the rear were oadly wrecked. About six lengths of rails were torn up in the impact. The passenger train was severI al minutes late when it left MoI non, but yvas running on time I when it reached Roselawn, thus it can be seen at about what rate of speed the passenger was going. The track was .cleared after about six hours work, and aside from holding up train No. 33 due here at 1:58 p. m., abount ; an hour,-the passenger trains returned running over this section !in the afternoon. 1 The damage wrought aggregated several thousand dollars. The advance of from 15c to 25c on- the wholesale price of pineapples this week over last, makes the Home Grocery’s big pineapple sale look extra good and shows that their judgment was right.