Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1917 — SWITCHMAN KILLED AT MONON [ARTICLE]

SWITCHMAN KILLED AT MONON

Body of E. L. Hamilton Cut in , Two Beneath Cars. Edward L. Hamilton of Lafayette, a welLknown of the Monon railroad, was killed at Monon last Thursday nigfrt when he fell from a moving train. Ten freight cars passed over. his body, cutting him in,, two. »- Mr' Hamilton was standing on top of a cut of ten cars when a switch engine backed into them, throwing him ’to the ground beneath the cars. He was dragged about 400 feet before the cut of cars reached the derail and stopped. After the cars left the track a column of the water station was knocked down and two switch stands broken. Mr. Hamilton was 50 years old and is survived by the widow, his mother and two sisters.