Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1903 — THREE KILLED IN WRECK. [ARTICLE]

THREE KILLED IN WRECK.

Lafayette Trainmen Meet Death la Monon Wreck. A horrible railroad accident oocurred at Quincy, a little station between Qosport and Greencastle, the Monon at 0 o’clock Tuesday morn* inpf. The accident snuffed out the lives of three railroad men, all residents of Lafayette. The fast freight! train No. 71, which left that oity at# o’clock in the morning, ran into « switch of whioh the point had been slightly sprung, allowing the wheel flanges to go on to the siding. The freight train was going down grade and running at full speed and struck a number of timber cars which were standing on the siding. No. 71 was pulled by engine No. 20l r crewed by Engineer A. 8. Barker and Fireman Joe Eaglin. The train was in charge of Oonduofor Albert Pearson. The head breakman, Hiram Perry, was riding in the engine at the time of the accident. The engine and five oars loaded with hogs were thrown down a steep embankment. Logs, earn and hogs were smashed indescribably and thrown over many square yards of surrounding ground. Perry wm caught under the rear of the engine. He was crushed and scalded by steam and a big hog lay on top of him. He lived an hour and suffered great agony. He said that Engineer Barker and Fireman Eaglin had jumped from the engine. He was so weak that he oould not tell any more about the accident. Up to a late hour in the afternoon the bodies of Barker and Eaglha had not been gotten from under the engine. The locomotive was of the battleship type. The big Jumbe desrlck from the Lafayette shops wae dispatched to the scene of the wreck.