Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1917 — SEVERAL KILLED IN WRECK [ARTICLE]

SEVERAL KILLED IN WRECK

Fifteen Others Injured in Head-On Collision of Passenger and Freight at Riverside, Mich. Benton Harbor, Mich., Sept. 21. One man is dead, several others are believed to have been killed and at least 15 persons were injured in :l head-on collision of a passenger and a freight train on the Pere Marquette railroad at Riverside, seven miles northeast of here. A brakeman named LaGrange was crushed to death. Of nine injured persons taken from the wreckage thus far, two are-not expected to live. Several other persons are understood to be in the wreckage. The two believed fatally injured are Sherry Plummer, < fraud Rapids, baggageman on the passeiiger train, and Milton Sweet, Grand Rapids, a passenger.