Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1903 — DRUNK MAN HARD TO KILL. [ARTICLE]

DRUNK MAN HARD TO KILL.

This One Carried Fifteen Miles en The “Cow Catcher” Hammond, Ind., Deo. 6.-Farmer Charles Stahlbohm, proprietor of a roadhouse near this city, don’t care to duplicate the risky experience that he had last night while driving home from Dyer, where he had been bnying stock yesterday afternoon. He had met too many friends in Dyer, and as he, with his team, near the Monou Railroad fifteen miles sooth of here, he-did not notioe a fast freight train until it was upon him, The train killed both horses and made kindnlig wood of the wagon. Stahlbohm was thrown on the engine pilot, and so tightly had he grasped his lines that be still held part of them as well as the whip, when the train pulled into Hammond at 10 o’olook last night, There he was found by the engineer, who did not know of the collision. Stahlbohm evidently thought he was still driving f for he was with the blanket around his knees and the remnants of the lines still outstretched in his hands. When Engineer Bellinger shook him out of his stupor, he angrily aoonsed the trainmen of stealing his cap and his horses and had to be held from fighting them. The oompany’s surgeon, Dr. J. 0. Panneabnrg, says that Stahlbohm is as near uninjured as it is possible for him to be. —p.fr-.iVj.tu, *.,< V ~