Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-01-09 | Page 4 | Open Switch Topples Train

I I I Op n h T Topples Train IVain i 1 MARION Ind Jan 9 9 1 P Dc DC- DC of a three car Big Four J passenger passenger train seven even miles s south lout out of here herc Thursday y night In ln which three trainmen suffered ml minor Jn juries was caused state police pol ce said d Friday Fiday by an open swit switch h. h I The 12 p passengers BS on the train were not injured State Police George Daugherty Daugh- Daugh h ht erty said the padl padlock ck which t locked lock d the switch had been beaten off Of with a it hammer hamm r or or chisel and the switch had been thrown op open n. n The injured were c engineer n gin e e r Claude Cornell Corne 62 Wabash Ind fireman E. E L. L 50 Converse Converse Con Con- verse Ind Indi and J J. J JW W Y West 39 Indianapolis express agent Th The Big Four is a division of ot the N New w York Central system The train was Vas ma making ing the Indian Indianapolis Indianapolis- Elkhart Irid It d run when it was as derailed at Jonesboro about bout 65 miles mlle northeast of ot Indianapolis Cornell said Mid he saw switch was open cn an and applied the brakes as the train traveling about CO 50 COmiles miles an hour struck it The locomotive locomotive loco loco- motive tender and two baggage cars car toppled on their sides but the theP P passenger enger car remained upright