Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1912 — Five Men and One Horse Killed at Crossing. [ARTICLE]

Five Men and One Horse Killed at Crossing.

Five men, glassblowers in the U. S. Bartmess glass plant at Spencer, were instantly killed at the railroad crossing one and one-half pmiles southwest of Ellettsville at 1 o’clock Tuesday morning, by the fast southhound Monon express while they were returning home in a carriage from Bloomirigton where they had been attending a play at the opera house. f The dead are: Hal Brown, age twenty-four, Spencer; Emil Williams; age twenty-one, Kansas City, Mo.; Martin Worden, age three, New Albany, Ind;; Arthur Farmer, age twenty-six, Summitville, Ind.; Jess Rogers, z age twenty-two, residence unknown. The carriage occupied by the five men was squarely on the track when struck by the engine. Martin Ball, engineer, says the vehicle was> at a standstill on the crossing. The bodies were hurled in all directions an<j mangled and crushed so badly Identification was made difficult. Worden’s body caught on the engine pilot and was not discovered until after the train reached Ellettsville with the other four bodies in the baggage car. The crossing is in an isolated section, with'the approach hidden by heavy timber growth. The men evidently did not see the fast train until on the track, even if then, and it was too late to get out of danger. The engineer stopped the train and backed to the crossing, where crew and passengers aided ijx the search for the bodies. Horrors grew as body after body was found, first belief being that two in a buggy, at the most, had been killed. One of the horses was killeh, the other stopping a short distance from the wreck. -