Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1912 — FORMER R. R. PRESIDENT, [ARTICLE]

FORMER R. R. PRESIDENT,

James T. Harahan and Three Others Killed In Wreck at Klnmundy, 111., on Illinois Central. A rear-end collision with a private car on the Illinois Central railroad at Kinmundy, 111., at 1 a. m., Monday ' caused the death of former president of the I. C., James T. Harahan, Frank O. Melcher, second vice-president of the Rock Island; Edward B. Pierce, general conns#!** for the Rock Island; and Eldredge Wright, vice president of the Rock Island Bridge Go. Several trainmen were also injured. Train No. 25, at the rear of which was attached the private car, was taking water, when train No. |3, known as the Panama Limited, crashed into the rear of No. 25, which was standing on the main track with brakes set. No. 3 was running at full speed, and the impact split the private car in twain. Reports say that the .signal lamps were not lighted on the rear of the private car and that the flagman did not have time enough to get back and flag the limited.