Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1889 — TWO OFFICIALS KILLED. [ARTICLE]

TWO OFFICIALS KILLED.

The pay car, containing all of the general road officers of the 0., I. & W., went west at 7 o’clock a. m., Monday, and reached Veedersburg, west of Crawfordsville, in safety. Between Veedersburg and Covington the track is for the most part good. Upon a straight stretch am axle of the car broke, and in the crash following Superintendent Wilson and Trainmaster Cummers were ground to death. A strange feature of the catastrophe is the fact that the four other persons who were upon the car were not even inured. They were W. W. Lynn, auditor and cashier of the road; John Sloan, roadmaster; J. H. M. Clagget, car accountant, and Frank H. Wilson, clerk to Superintendent Wilson. Between the Uo places named there is sharp curve and a steep grade. Mail clerks say they often have to suspend work while rounding this curve rapidly. But the wreck occurred on a smooth piece of track, three miles east of Covington, and, so far as known, was due solely to the broken axle.

The Governor of Kieff, Russia, has closed twenty Catholic Churches. No reason is given for this proceeding.