DAY, Harry
HARRY DAY - train accident
Source: Crawfordsville Review Oct 1,
1918 p6
Danville, Ill Sept 29 – Harry Day,
of Yeddo, Ind who sustained a fractured skull and other injuries Thursday
morning when the automobile in which he was riding was struck by a passenger
train on the Brazil and Veedersburg branch of the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois railway died at the St. Elizabeth Hospital this morning at 12:30
o’clock. Day was unconscious when picked up by the train crew following the
accident, which occurred near Yeddo and remained in that condition until his
death. He had practically been in a dying condition since he was injured. Day
was an employee of the C&EI railway as a section hand, although his father
is a wealthy farmer. On account of the labor shortage his father, a brother and
himself had volunteered to work on the section. On the day of the accident the
young man laid off and his father and brother were on the train going to their
work when he was injured. Two young women of Yeddo were riding with him but
escaped injury. The auto was struck a glancing blow and Day was thrown out and
dragged a distance of several hundred feet, his head bumping along the ties as
the train sped along at a speed of 25 or 30 miles an hour – kbz