Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1910 — State and General News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

State and General News

. ROASTED ALIVE. Was Live Stock Attendant, Who Slept in a Wrecked Train. Strawns, Ind., Dec. ,25, —Descending the two-mile 85-foot grade east of Dublin, Ind., a Pennsylvania railroad fat live stock train, east-bound, precipitated itself into Christmas casualty when it crashed into the rear of a freight. Conductor Thompson, r his brakeman and an unidentified live stock attendant were in the caboose, which was smashed. The first two escaped by jumping, but the latter, while asleep in the loft, was literally burned alive by flames which consumed the caboose and two cars. Traffic was delayed five hours.