Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1887 — Fatal Accident on the C & I. C. Rail Boad. [ARTICLE]

Fatal Accident on the C & I. C. Rail Boad.

The following particulars regarding a fatal accident on the 0. <t I. C- Railroad,’last week, are from the Goodland Herald: On Monday forenoon, Louis Brooks and Patrick Sullivan, employes on the Foresman section of the Coal Road, had walked over the section as far as Julian and were returning, when, suddenly they were both knocked from the track. Mr. Brooks being badly hurt, and Mr. Sullivan killed. The snow plow had gone north over the road in the morning and was returning. It seems that Mr. Brooks and Mr. Sullivan were walking in the middle of the track having no knowledge of any train of any train on the road. Mr. Brooks says that tljey knew nothing of the approaching plow until they heard the rails singing. He looked around and at that instant was hurled through the air to the side of the road. Mr. Brooks was badly hurt but will recover. Mr. Sullivan was horribly mangled, his head being crushed and his brains scattered about in a shocking ami sickening manner. A widow and one child are left to mourn his loss. The remains were brought to Goodland and hurried in the cemetery north of town Tuesday.