The Chicago Tribune

Jan. 10, 1891 Page 6

Thrown Down an Embankment

CINCINNATI,O., Jan. 9 - A North Vernon, Ind., dispatch says a misplaced switch on the Vernon, Greensburg and Rushville road, in the northern part of Jennings County, caused a wreck this morning, in which the engine and combination mail, baggage, and express car were thrown down a fifty-foot embankment, and Engineer George Berris and Fireman Lewis Lemaster were fatally injured.