Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1912 — A Youth Killed at Roselawn. [ARTICLE]

A Youth Killed at Roselawn.

John Rose, a young man of perhaps 18 years, was killed at Roselawn Wednesday, when passenger train No. 5 on the Monon on which he was stealing a ride between the first and second car vestibules, backed up to the station. He was riding on the left side of the vestibule and a companion, who jumped when the train started to back up, thus saving himself, was riding on the right side. Both were headed for Jeffersonville, Ind., where young Rose’s widowed mother is living. It is said that Rose also attempted to jump, w but he was caught bein between the cars and his head crushed to a pulp, death resulted shortly after in the Roselawn station wherg he was taken as soon as his plight was The accident which was almost a precise repetition of the death of the Sweet boy of Lafayette here a few weeks ago, was witnessed by several people on the station platform at Roselawn.