Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1918 — AUTO DRIVED KILLED BY TRAIN [ARTICLE]

AUTO DRIVED KILLED BY TRAIN

Car Struck by Big Four Train in Benton County. Ray Hawkins, age forty-five, proprieor of an auto livery at Oxford, was killed, and Mrs. J. W. Reed, saleswoman for a stock selling concern, was seriously mangled Monday afternoon when an east-bound passenger train on the Big Four railroad struck the auto in which they were riding, at Raub, three miles south of Kentland. Hawkins had been hired to drive Mrs. Reed to several towns in that vicinity and they were trying to beat the passenger train to the crossing. When the crash occurred the gasoline tank of the automobile caught fire and Hawkins’ body was burned to a crisp.