Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1905 — More About the Crown Point Wreck. [ARTICLE]

More About the Crown Point Wreck.

Tbe first report of Sunday men ing’s wreck on the Erie road, in Lake county, sent to Hammond said 26 were killed aid 60 injured and street reports soon increased the number to 73 killed and 301 wounded, or a whole lot more than there were people on the train. A relief train wes organized at Hammond, inclcding about every doctor in the place, few of whom bad bad their breakfast, and when they got to the wreck and found the casualties consisted of only 12 injured persons, and that all of them bad already been cared for by the Crown Point doctors, there wes a bunch of very wrathful medical men. Tbe injured people are all getting well finely and no deaths are feared. The railroad company has settled with all the injured except two. Most of the injured were Hungarians and Austrians who live about Hegewisoh and had got that near home frojn a visit back to the old Country i