Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1912 — ONE KILLED; 34 INJURED. [ARTICLE]

ONE KILLED; 34 INJURED.

Accommodation Train Fails to dear Main Track for Fast Mail— Mail Coach Shattered. Bedford, Ind., June 10.—Failure of the crew of an accommodation train to clear the main track resulted in a headon collision with the Monon’s fast mail train-, near Bedford, Saturday night, the death of J. P. McClure of Bloomington, and the injury of abouty thirty-four passengers. McClure, a mail clerk, was crushed when the impact drove the tender and the mailcoach together. The mail coach was shattered. Edward F. Riley of New York, who suffered severe cuts about the head and a broken arm, was probably the most severely injured of the passengers. Others who were hurt, but whose injuries were not serious, are: Mrs. L. N. Sides, Charles Taylor, Oscar Lewis, Hartford Noble, Mrs. A. H. Chastena, Ed Lewis, Mrs. ford; J-. S. Flinn*, Georgetown; W. M. Dobbins, James Couss, W. A. Brock, Bedford; J. S. Flinn, Georgetown; Nellie Burton, Mrs. M. E. Martin, Mildred Wright, Mrs. A. J. Foster, Mitchell; Mrs. A. Cqle, Mrs. Elijah James, R. A. Cole, Ernest Koskley, Bloomington; William Habert, W. H. Marimon, Mrs. John E. Elrod, Orleans; William Turner, Mrs. E. J. Corkon, Alfred Schaeter, Louisville; E. A. Paton, Lindsey Hart, Mrs. Sarah Riley; New Albany.; N. S. Taylor, I. K. Harris, Louis Karnes, Mrs. Oliver Standish, Salem; Mrs. Ida Brough, Mrs. L. E. Dunn, Terre Haute. Railroad officials at Lafayette estimate the property loss at $75,000, and say that A. J. Briggs, engineer has telegraphed his resignation to the company and admitted that he overlooked the meeting place.