Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1912 — 14 INJURED IN WRECK [ARTICLE]

14 INJURED IN WRECK

Interurban Train Derailed near Benld. 111. Sleepers on Illinois Traction System Go into Ditch—-No One Seriously Hurt. St. Louis. Mo., March I.—Fourteen passengers were injured when a sleeper train of three cars on the Illinois traction system was derailed and turned over in a ditch at Benld., 111., fifty miles northeast of St Louis. •A report from the company’s division headquarters at Staunton, 111., was that every passenger on the train was hurt, the most serious injury being that of a man whose nose was broken. The train, consisting of a motor car, the Peoria sleeper and the Springfield sleeper, ran intc a derailing switch. Motorman E. D. Clark, reported that his airbrake failed to work. The motor car and the Peoria sleeper to it rolled into a ditch and turned bottom upward. The rear. Springfield sleeper turned on its side. Three of the injured, who were brought to St. Louis, Were Fred Gordon, Champaign, Ill.; George Gordon, TJrbana, 111., and A. Kelly,, Bloomington, 111.