People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — Freight Wreck Cost Two Lives. [ARTICLE]

Freight Wreck Cost Two Lives.

Cellna, Ohio, May B.—The east-bound freight, No. 124, on the Lake Erie & Western was wrecked one mile west of this city at 10 o’clock last night. Ten cars were smashed into splinters. Ote Bierely of Bt. Marys, Ohio, and Peter Finch of Portland, Ind., were instantly killed. 'George Anderson of St. Marys and William Depew of Portland, Ind., were seriously injured, Anderson probably fatally. These parties were all Stealing rides. The wreck was caused by the engineer suddenly putting on the air brakes while going down a steep grade. Finch is the son of Deputy Sheriff Finch of Jay county, Indiana.