Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1911 — FALL BREAKS THICK ICE. [ARTICLE]

FALL BREAKS THICK ICE.

Injures Fireman Who is Found Slowly Slipping Into Water.

Logansport, Ind., Jan. 23.-—-Slip-ping on the icy gangway of a yard switch engine, J. D. Carr, age twen-ty-two, fell as the engine was crossing the new Panhandle bridge over the Wabash river, early yesterday morning, and landed on the ice forty feet 1 below. Switchmen and other employes, with lanterns, went out on the ice in search of the missing man. He was found unconscious, with his feet and legs in the water and his feet. and shoulders on the ice. The force of the fall had broken the thick ice and his body was slowly slipping into the water. He is at St. Joseph’s hospital suffering from internal injuries.