Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1902 — A Car Jumper Kilted. [ARTICLE]

A Car Jumper Killed.

A sad and fatal accident occurred at Monon about 2:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. The victim was a young man known variously as Joe Or Jim Hess, usually as Joe. He was engaged in the too common pastime of jumping on and off moving trains. He jumped on freight train No, 71, and rode some distance, and when he jumped ofF the train was going at such a nigh rate of speed that he was throw n down and rolled under the wheels. Some 25 cars passed over him, and he was literally cut to pieces. He was about 21 or 22 years old, and a nice and pppular young man. His sad fate should be a warning to many other boys and young men who indulge in this same always dangerous practice of jumping on and off moving trains; but there is little chance that it will and about every so often we shall continue to hear of yoUDg bodies mangled for life, or young lives' blotted out. until the railroads themeelves are compelled by strict provisions of law, to put a stop to the practice.