Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1916 — Purdue Special Wrecked on Trestle in Kentucky [ARTICLE]

Purdue Special Wrecked on Trestle in Kentucky

Lexington, Ky., May 9.:—Eighty senior agricultural students and ‘•several members of the faculty of Purdue university narrowly escaped death shortly before noon yesterday when their train was derailed while it was traveling over a high trestle 25 miles from this city. The. loromotive struck an obstruction in the track and several cars were thrown from the track, but all the passengers escaped injury. Only the guard rails held the, coaches upright and prevented the whole train with its load of men from being plunged into a 50-foot ravine. The students are on their annual inspection trip of the large stock farms in the Blue Grass state.