Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1910 — GOES OVER EMBANKMENT [ARTICLE]

GOES OVER EMBANKMENT

Big Four Passenger Runs Into a Work Train. Jeffersonville, Ind., August 22. —Big Four passenger train leaving here at 8:10 o’clock this morning ran into a work train near Blocher an hour later, the crew of the latter having neglected to take a siding. They saw the passenger coming, but the airbrakes is reported to have jammed and the train could not be started. The engineer and fireman of the passenger jumped, but neither they nor any of the passengers were seriously injured. Several men in the caboose of the work train were injured. Physicians were sent to the scene from Seymour.