Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1900 — More About the Wreck. [ARTICLE]

More About the Wreck.

The Lafayette Call, of/Tuesday evening, gives an excellent account of the wreck at South Raub, Tuesday morning, but it differs in no material respect, except, in more details, from our account of the same date. Charles Cain, the head brakeman, who left the switch, had returned to his home, in Lafayette. He was unable to account for the switch being left open. Only the front wheels of the ladies’ car left the tracks, and the sleeper was not even partly derailed. No one was hurt in either of those cars. The two mail clerks in the immediately behind the locomotive had a miraculous escape from death. They were thrown many feet into an adjoining field, and strange to say, were not hurt beyond a few slight bruises. Lewis Raub, engineer of the freight, who was one of those killed was terribly mutilated Henry Whitsel, engineer of the passenger train, who was so badly injured, died last Wednesday morning.