Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1918 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Paris ot the Country. SNORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Place*. ENGINEER SARGENT IS HELD TO GRAM) JURY Hammond, June 26.—-Alonzo Sargent, engineer on tire Michigan Central equipment train which last Saturday crashed into the rear end of a Hagejibeck-Wallace circus train, today was held to the grand jury on charges of involuntary manslaughter on affidavits presented by Acting Coroner H, C. Green in the Lake county superior court. Gustave Klauss, Sargent’s fireman, also was held, charged with involuntary manslaughter. Bond was fixed at SB,OOO for Sargent and $5,000 for Klauss. The unidentified bodies of fortysbven victims of the wreck were buried today in one grave with ceremonies under the auspices of the Showman’s league of America. A Roman Catholic priest and a protestant clergyman officiated jointly at the services. Several hundred showmen attended. The funerals ot six identified victims also were held today. Latest estimates fix the number of dead at seventy-eight.