Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1915 — Six Burned and Hurt as Gasoline Tank Explodes. [ARTICLE]

Six Burned and Hurt as Gasoline Tank Explodes.

Laporte, Ind., July B.—-Mrs. Andrew Dreyer probably was burned fataly, her 1 2-yeat-old daughter suffered a broken leg and was burned painfully, and four other persons were injured today when a gasoline tank on a railway motor car on the Monon railroad caught fire and exploded one mile north of Otis, Laporte county. Mrs. Dreyer’s clothes were burned almost entirely off. All jumped while s the car was in motion, the girl falling in front of the wheels which passed over her. The injured persons are in the hospital here.