People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — Benjamin Fisher Killed. [ARTICLE]

Benjamin Fisher Killed.

Benjamin Fisher, section hand on the Monon at this place, was run down by a frieght train last Friday morning while he was at work alone on the track near Surrey. He was badly crushed, both legs being frightfully mangled and he received severe outs on the head and back. His injuries were at once seen to-be fatal, and he died at 2 p. m. at the home of his father, Henry Fisher, the mail train picking him up a few minutes after the accident and bringing him to Rensselaer. He recovered partial consciousness, but not sufficiently to give an intelligible account of the occurrence. Coroner Wright has not yet returned a verdict, the inquest which began Saturday and was continued Tuesday and Wednesday having not yet been completed as the Pilot goes to press. The obituary appears in another column.