Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1917 — MONON IS LUCKY RAILROAD [ARTICLE]

MONON IS LUCKY RAILROAD

The Monon railroad Wednesday, completed its twenty-fifth year of operation since there has been a passenger killed in a train z accident on their lines. The last persons killed were killed when a train struck a broken rail north of Crawfordsville, and sent the coaches down a sixty-foot embankment, causing the death of four people. H. R. Kurrie, president of the road, stated that there has been deaths resulting from people cross ing the tracks and falling from cars, but the wreck at Crawfordsville was the last accident fop which the railroad could be held to blame.