Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1911 — CHOOSES TRACKS FOR DEATH [ARTICLE]

CHOOSES TRACKS FOR DEATH

Veteran at Petersburg Bteps in Front of Traction Car. Petersburg, lad., April 28.—After remarking to a friend that he did not know the best way to die, W. W. Sullivan, seventy-seven years old, Civil war veteran, put on his best suit, shaved, and a few hours later was struck by an Evansville and Indianapolis north-bound passenger train and instantly killed. Members of the train crew say they whistled a warning, but instead of getting off the tracjt Sullivan arose a tie on which he was sitting and stepped in the center of the track.