Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1910 — MOROCCO SCHOOL SUPT. [ARTICLE]

MOROCCO SCHOOL SUPT.

Contests Right-of-Way With a Passenger Train With Usual Results.. Prof. t F. L. Wildrick, asst, principal of the high school, hired a rig from the Kay barn to drive north-east of town Wednesday evening on some business and while crossing the C. I. & S. tracks the south bound passenger train struck the horse squarely tearing its body, killing the animal and carrying it several rods down the track and destroying the buggy. Prof. Wildrick was thrown over the fence but fortunately escaped with only a few Had there been an instant more of time he would surely have been killed. The horse was valued at $l5O by Mr. Kay. It is reported that while the train whistled for the town it did not whistle for the crossing. The buggy was a closed front style and the train could not well