Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1910 — MONON KILLS ANOTHER [ARTICLE]

MONON KILLS ANOTHER

Otto Hemphill Brakeman, Loses Both Limbs at Rensselaer Wednesday Morning. While making a flying switch near the stockyards, just east of the local statipn, about 1 a. m„ Wednesday ", morning, 'OttHemphill, a brakeman on freight train No. 72, the train that had the misfortune at Lowell Sunday morning, had both limbs almost tom from his body. The left limb was crushed off below the knee and the right just above the knee. After he had thrown the switch, •he jumped onto the pilot of the engine with his limbs hanging over in front of the pilot, which cut in on the side track. A car stood on this siding with the drawbar removed and as the. engine advanced to counle to the car, it caught Hemphill’s legs between ttye car and engine pilot. When he was removed his legs were just hanging by the skin to his body. He was removed to Lafayette and takeri to a hospital, but died in the operation to amputate his limbs. It is said he leave? a wife and five children at Lafayette. Hemphill’s former home was at Wolcott, where the remains were taken for burial.