Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1911 — FIVE PASSENGERS INJURED [ARTICLE]

FIVE PASSENGERS INJURED

Train In Oklahoma Falls Fifty Feet into Creek. Muskogee, Okla., July 21.—Five passengers and the conductor were injured when a Midland Valley train crashed through a bridge half a mile west of Avant, Okla. The bridge is fifty feetMiigh. The structure had been weakened by a swollen creek. The engine parsed completely over the bridge before pier gave way. The baggage car is hanging at the west end of the bridge and the “Jim Crow’’ car, which crashed through, lies at the bottom of the creek, nearly buried In the water. The two rear passenger coaches remained on the track.

.Train Goes Over Bank.

Trinidad, Colo., July 21.-—The Colorado and Southern passenger train, from Denver to Trinidad and south, was wrecked eighteen miles south of here, when the engine, tender and baggage car plunged over an embankment and killed Engineer Joseph Ketchbarger and fatally injured Fireman E C. Starr. None of the passengers was hurt.