Walk - Edward
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 29 July 1898
Lafayette Journal: Edward Walk, a Monon engineer, met a horrible fate yesterday morning about 9:30 o’clock on the Monon track, just outside the city limits bordering on Burroughs Street, being struck by a switch engine backing on the main track in the direction of the Monon shops. The victim’s body from the abdomen down was literally ground to pieces and scattered along the track for a distance of fifty feet. Walk had just run his own engine on the side track and taking a can from the engine cab dismounted to get some drinking water close by. A number of freight cars were on the switch and Walk crawled under one of these, passing to the main track, can in hand, when switch No. 92, backing up, struck him, throwing Walk under the wheels of the tender with the above results.
The victim was one of the oldest engineers in the employ of the Monon road. In his early service he run a through freight engine, but for the last twenty years he has been engineering on a switch engine. The deceased was about fifty years of age, and leaves a wife and two grown children, a son and a daughter. - s