Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1912 — “LOOK OUT!” CRIES SLEEPER [ARTICLE]

“LOOK OUT!” CRIES SLEEPER

As He Plunge? To Death Through Car Window of Speeding Excursion Train. Bedford, Ind., August 12. —Carl Pritchett, 21, son of Rachio Pritchett. ot Peerless, near this city, was killed last night when he jumped through the window of a Chicago excursion train on the return trip here with a brother, sister and Pritchett, who was sitting next to the window asleep, was a hooker at one of the quarries. Without warning he shouted, “Look! out, hoys,” and plunged (through the open window of the car. Efforts to catch him proved futile. The train was Anally stopped thred miles from the tragedy and backed up, but the body could not be tuund until •hi ;• morning, when section men discovered it. The body wos brought here this evening. A father, mother, six sisters and one brother survive. Pritchett came near being killed three days ago by a falling stone while at work, and the incident is thought to have made him dream of it on the train.