Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1909 — Chicago Picnicker Killed At Cedar Lake Monday. [ARTICLE]

Chicago Picnicker Killed At Cedar Lake Monday.

A man named Smith, -who had spent Monday with friends at Cedar Lake, having come down on a labor day excursion train, was run over by train No. 30, which passes through this city at 6:02 o’clock, and had both legs cut off. He was loaded into the baggage car of the excursion train, but died before the train reached Dyer. The particulars of yie accident are not known here, but it is thought that Smith was waiting for the returning excursion train and mistook the regular passenger,- train for the excursion and tried to board it while it was in motion, not realizing how fast it was running.