Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1916 — TRAIN CRASHES INTO BUGGY [ARTICLE]

TRAIN CRASHES INTO BUGGY

One Child Killed and Three Others Are Injured. Lafayette, December 14.-—One child was killed and three slightly injured when a Lake Erie & Western passenger train crashed into a storm-curtained buggy loaded with school children at a railroad crossing in Montmorenci, west of Lafayette, today. The head of Velma Christian, 8 years old, was crushed and she died a few minutes later. Mary Christian, her cousin and Ross and Kenneth Edwards jumped as the train struck the buggy and they escaped with slight injuries. The children are members of prominent families and were on their way to school at Montmorenci. The horse was killed and the buggy torn to pieces. Kenneth Edwards, age 12, was driving. His father, Bert Edwards, is a member of the jury in the Brock murder trial in this city and the father was so unnerved by the accident that the case was delayed for two hours.