Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1912 — TWO TRAINMEN KILLED [ARTICLE]

TWO TRAINMEN KILLED

When Freights Collide at Curve Near Liberty, Ind. Liberty, Ind., November 29.—Percy Shepard, engineer of Hamtlion, Ohio, and Freeman Adams, fireman, of Anderson, Ind., were killed when freight trains on the C. H. & D. Railroad collided head-on at a curve near here tonight. Hundreds of hogs were killed.

It is charged that the engineer of the east-bound train had orders to pass the other train at Brownsville, but evidently forgot. The general superintendent and other officials of the road came here to investigate the wreck. a