Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1909 — Aged Laporte Man Killed When Vicious Horses Ran Away. [ARTICLE]

Aged Laporte Man Killed When Vicious Horses Ran Away.

E. B. Finley, 71 years of age and a well known resident of Laporte, was killed in a runaway Monday. He was driving a team of vicious horses, which became frightened and ran away. The pole snapped, freeing the horses, and Finley was thrown out on his head, which struck a sharp stone, producing fatal injuries. Edward Russell, of Elkhart, also lost his life the same day by being run over by a Lake’ Shore train as he was returning liome from work. Fred Heinnickle, a wealthy farmer of McGrawsville, was struck by a fast train on the Pennsylvania railroad and killed, the same day.