Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1918 — The WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEK'S DOINGS

Enos Ritchey, age forty-seven, was killed in an accident near Attica Friday night, when au automobile in which he was riding turned over an embankment. His brother, Elisha, was painfully but not seriously injured. Charles Chaplin and Wilbur Young, also members of the party, who Were returning to Lafayette, were slightly injured. Young is the owner of a garage at Covington and was driving the machine when it plunged over the embankment. The accident is thought to have occurred when Ritchey took hold of the steering wheel.

Ralph E. Gray of Anderson, his wife, Myrtle, and their two children, Mary, age 15, and Ralph, Jr., age 9, were killed instantly Sunday when their automobile was struck by a railroad train at a crossing near Pendleton, Indiana. The four persons were the only members of the Gray family and they were driving to Knightstown to visit relatives. The accident occurred on the Pendleton pike where the Big Four ‘railway crosses the highway at an elevation. The automobile was squarely on the track when struck. It was carried half a mile along the rails and then fell beside the track, a mass of flames.