Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1914 — Fireman on Panhandle R. R. Killed Near Burnettsville. [ARTICLE]

Fireman on Panhandle R. R. Killed Near Burnettsville.

Lewis McKay, fireman oh the west-bound Pennsylvania train which passes through Monticello at 8:14 a. in., and well-known along the Effner line, was killed this morning between Curveton and Burnettsville. He was on top of the coal tender shoveling coal and evidently was thrown from the top of the tender to the top of the tank by the action of the train. It was some time after the train left Curveton before the engineer missed him, and when he began to look for him, McKay was /ound lying dead on the top Pf the back of the tender with his face badly mutilated. It was suggested that he had been struck by the covered bridge near Curveton, but the engineer declared this to be impossible. Later it was found that he had struck the sharp iron edge of the water intake when he fell. The body was taken off at Bur-

nfettsville and was left there until it could be taken back to the man s home in Logansport. He leaves a wife and three children.—Thursday’s Monticello Journal. 1