Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1908 — John Brannan Hurt. [ARTICLE]

John Brannan Hurt.

Monon News. John Brannan met with a painful accident Saturday. He is brakeman on the freight which come from MichiI gun City, reaching here at about noon I Coming through Medaryville, he atI tempted to hang onto the side of the car ’qfhlle the train was passing iLe coal dumpa The - space between .the dumps and the moving train being too small to admit the body of a man, he was knocked from the i train after being squeezed a little way Into the opening. Fortunately and almost miraculously he escaped the wheels of the moving train. He was picked up unconscious aud brought home on No. 9. [it was feared there were internal lnlurtcs, but developed that there was nothing worse than a severe bruising and skinning, and Mr. Brannan’s period of convalescence will be comparatively short. T >- x ...