Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

To lepphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT HITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns — Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. QUARRELED WITH LADY FRIEND Drives Buggy on Railroad Track and Then Awaits Death.

Ferdinand Dye, age 22, waß killed at San Pierre, In Starke county, Friday night by Monon passerfger train No. 1, en route from Michigan City to Lafayette. The accident occurred on a private crossing on the John Hobey farm. According to reports, the young man quarreled with Mrs. Hobey’s daughter, who he had been keeping company with, and leaving the house drove his horse and buggy on the railroad crossing and waited for the train to hit the vehicle. He had wrapped himself in a blanket and evidently was prepared to die. Hugh McMillan, engineer of the train, says that Dye stopped deliberately, with the buggy squarely on the crossing, the horse being clear of the track. The horse Was not InA

jured, but the buggy was torn to pieces and Dye’s head was crushed. He was dead when trainmen 1 picked him up. The young man was the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Dye of Hamlet, Starke county. For several months he had been running a farm near San Pierre. The crossing Is only 300 feet from the Hobey home and is In plain view of the house. Mrs. Hobey and her daughter were among the first to reach the scene of the accident.