Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1911 — TWO KILLED; TWO DYING [ARTICLE]

TWO KILLED; TWO DYING

Four Railway Accidents Occur In VI ctnity of Hammond. Hammond, Ind., Jan. 27. —Four accidents on railways in this vicinity make up one day’s record. John King, while en route from Maryland to Chicago on the Nickel Plate road, fell from a freight train in the yard and was Instantly killed. Charles Graham, 60 years old, in getting out of the way of a fast freight train, was instantly killed by a passenger train near Athens. Frank Topolski, 35 years old, whose home was in Chicago, was struck by a South Shore traction train at Dunne Park and received internal injuries which will prove fatal. -W. Ridenauer, 28 years old, a Pennsylvania fireman, fell from a train into a cinderpit at the Wavalot coal docks and was probably fatally hurt.