Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1917 — CHAS. GROW IN TRAIN WRECK [ARTICLE]

CHAS. GROW IN TRAIN WRECK

No. ..7 Left the Track Near Indignapol's Sunday Afternoon. Monon ] assenger train No. 37, which passed through this city at 11:18 a. in. Sunday, was derailed about twelve niiles southeast of Indianapolis. Charles Grow of this city was in charge of mail car in this train, but luckily escaped injury. The train was composed of five steel cars, the first twobaggage and mail car and the smoker —turning completely over after leaving the track. The other three cars were thrown on their sides. No one was seriously injured and railroad officials attribute the absence of fatalities, to the fact that all steel coaches composed the train. The only injuries reported were about eight or nine persons cut by flyiqg glass, yet the crash came so quickly and with such force that all were considerably frightened. The si»reck was caused by the falling a brake beam from the tender. *