Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1914 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns.—Matters of .Minor .Mention From Many Places. ONE killed IN CRASH. Freight Crashes Into Work Train at Delphi and Engine Falls Forty Feet Into Creek. Delphi, Ind., May 27.—One person was killed and several injured, one probably fatally, when a Wabash freight train crashed head-on into a work train on the Deer Creek bridge just west of the city this afternoon. Alva Dills of Defiance, 0., foreman of the work train, was killed instantly. Jacob Wendell of Fort Wayne, a bridge foreman, suffered injuries which probably will cause his death. The work crew had been engaged in repairing the bridge and roadbed near the scene of the wreck when east-bound freight train No. 82 collided head-on with the standing train.

The engine and several cars of the freight- fell through the bridge to the creek, forty feet below. Engineer Harry Neil and Fireman Carl Drops escaped death by jumping from the cab and were injured slightly about their heads. Six doctors were rushed from Lafayette on a special train. Wendell was the\most seriously injured of the men who had been on the bridge. His chest was crushed and he has little chance of recovery. He was taken to the St. Elizabeth, Hospital in Lafayette. He is 40 years old. Injuries of the others in the wreck are not considered serious.