Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — “RED HUMMER” WRECKED [ARTICLE]

“RED HUMMER” WRECKED

Three Trainmen Lose Lives When an Alton Flyer Hits a Freight Three trainmen were killed and several others hurt, when the “Red Hummer” Limited, which left Chicago during the night on the Chicago and Alton road, crashed into the rear of a freight train at Farber, near here. The dead are trainmen, but practically every passenger in the smoker and a few in the Pullman cars were cut and bruised. $ The engine, baggage car and smoker on the passenger train and the rear cars of the freight train were derailed and splintered. The dead are Engineer Davis of the Red Hummer, Slater Mo., and Flagman Flora of the freight train. Fireman Crabtree of the passenger train, living at Slater, Mo., was fatally injured and died in a few hours. Flagman Flora, of the freight, which was also bound for Kansas City, was in the cabose of the train when killed. Others in the caboose were hurt. This car was splintered by the big passem ger engine.