Train Srikes Albert Holden - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Albert Holden, a laborer, about forty-five year old chose to make a couch of the Clover Leaf track Sunday morning and was hurled into eternity by passenger train No. 5. The train was going west on usual schedule time and encountered Holden about two and a half miles west of Mellott.  The customary precaution was made by the engineer and the danger signals sounded, but Holden was too deeply asleep to hear and the train could not be stopped in time to avoid hitting him.  His body was hurled for a considerable distance and was badly cut, broken and disfigured.  Broken bottle glass that was found where the body fell would indicate that Holden had been drinking and was in a stupor when the train struck him.  He was instantly killed.  The train was stopped and the body put aboard and taken to Veedersburg where it was turned over to the coroner of Fountain county.  Conductor J.D. Fortune was in charge of the train.   ---dkd