People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1896 — SAY MANY WERE KILLED. [ARTICLE]

SAY MANY WERE KILLED.

Officers of an Indiana Railroad Accused of Suppressing Facts. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 5. —Persons who were at the wreck on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis railroad at Tanner’s creek in Dearborn county Monday declare that seven or eight persons were killed, and that the railroad company is suppressings the information. William Michaels, a laborer out of work,who was in the wreck, made a statement corroborating this. Other reports, coming from visitors to the scene of the wreck, state that at least six or eight lives were lost. Dispatches from Greensburg and Lawrenceburg state that several men have come forward with the charge that several unknown men were killed. The wreck was id a lonely spot and was well cleared away before any one except the railroad employes visited the scene. The company’s officers here still insist that but one life was lost.