Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA. ONE DEAD, 12 HURT IN WRECK Limited Interurban Car Runs Into Open Switch and Is Ditched While Going at High Speed Near Greencastle. r Greencastle, Aug. 15. —One man was killed, two seriously injured and ten others badly hurt when a limited interurban on the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern traction line ran into an open switch, four miles west of here. The dead: \\ alter E. Fritsche. Indianapolis, motorman. The injured: Robert Davis. Brazil, serious; F, May Cook, colored, Louisville. Ky.. serious. Mark Kester, Indianapolis;W. E. Small, Brazil; Mrs. Margaret King, Brazil; Guy Troutmau, Indianapolis; Charles Huffman, Brazil; Laura Rugensteln, Indianapolis; Helton Osborne, West T&rre Haute; Pansy Osborne, aged five. vVest Terre Barney Stevenson; Mrs. Mary G. Sinclair, Cloverdale. The wrecked car went through the switch into a ditch and stopped with its pilot and pan of the vestibule buried in a mud bank. The car was running at an estimated speed of 45 miles an hour as it approached the switch, according to the statements of passengers.