Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1911 — FOUR TRAINMEN ARE HURT [ARTICLE]

FOUR TRAINMEN ARE HURT

Flagman’s Negligence Said to be Responsible for Crash. Logan'port, Ind , July 10—Thirteen cars and the engine of a Pennsylvania freight train on the Richmond division were piled up on the right of way between WaLton and Anoka Junction. Engineer Charles W. Weiss, Fireman J. E. Lord and the head brakeman, J G McFall, were in the engine when the accident oca rred, and each suf sered severe injuries. All the injured men live in Indianapolis. The wreck was caused, it is said, by failure of a flagman to warn the approaching train that a section gang had removed several rails from the track. The train pounded down to where the rail had been removed, and in an instant the engine and thirteen cars were in a heap;