Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1912 — Leaps From Dancer to Death. [ARTICLE]

Leaps From Dancer to Death.

Valparaiso. Aug. 1. —Jumping from a Grand Trunk railroad trestle into a deep river to avoid being ground to death by a fast passenger train, Lee Muffley, twenty-five years old, was drowned, and Clarence Gardner rescued after he had battled until helpless in an unsuccessful attempt to save his companion. The same train later struck a broken rail at Ainsworth. west of here, and the engine and tender left the track. No one was injured.