Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1916 — Monon Conductor Killed. [ARTICLE]

Monon Conductor Killed.

Bloomington, Ind., May 27. Roger Cole, 38 years old, for the last twelve years conductor on the Monon railroad, was killed on his own train today near the switch of the Diamond Stone company, three miles south of Clear Creek. While a cut of cars was being made, Cole was running across the train and fell between two flat cars.- He died within twenty minutes alter the accident. The mangled body was brought to Cole’s home in this city. He is survived by the widow. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, the Eagles and the Moose. Cole has two other brothers in the service of the Monon. John Cole is a conductor on the Bloomington-New Albany local, and Oscar H. Cole is in charge of the Midland coal train.