Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1916 — RAIL MOTOR CARS IN CRASH [ARTICLE]

RAIL MOTOR CARS IN CRASH

One Man Injured and May Die as Result of Accident. Lafayette, November 9. —• Jobe' Coffman, employed by the ■ Lake Erie & Western railroad, was injured, probably fatally, when two gasoline motor cars collided headon three miles west of Otterbein last night. The cars were running at high speed and Coffman, who was driving the east-bound car, was thrown fifty feet from the car, alighting on a tie. He suffered concussion of the brain and is believed to be injured internally, Harry R. Lewis, a telephone inspector, and H. s. Seigelman, a lineman, both of Tipton, were riding on the westbound speeder. They escaped with bruises about the body. The cars did not carry lights and the driver* could not see ahead. Coffman lives at Montmorencl and is a veteran employe of the railroad company.