Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1915 — Train Hits Stolen Auto; Two Die, Five Hurt. [ARTICLE]

Train Hits Stolen Auto; Two Die, Five Hurt.

Valparaiso, Ind., July 18. —Walter Morse of Stoughton, Mass., and Ross Brady of Boone Grove, this county, were instantly killed; James Boring of Boone Grove, suffered a broken ankle and internal injuries, and Dan Brennan and Lawrence Boring were bruised severely early today when a railroad automobile on which they were riding crashed into a switch engine at Boone Grove. According to testimony introduced at the coroner’s inquest, held this afternoon, the five men in the car had confiscated the machine and were returning from Kouts, where they had spent the night.

John Horn, engineer, and Henry Wiseman, fireman of the switch engine, whose homes are at Huntington, Ind., were painfully cut by glass from the cab windows.