FOUR OF FAMILY INSTANTLY KILLED

Edgar Jones, Wife and Two Daughters Victims When Train Hits Auto Near State Forestry

TWO IN MACHINE ESCAPE DEATH

Four members of a family met death Sunday morning at 10:15 o'clock at the Hammond crossing, opposite the State Forestry, ten miles south of here, when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by a southbound Pennsylvania passenger train.

The dead are:

Edgar Garfield Jones, 47 years old, residing about four miles west of Crothersville

Mrs. Cora Jones, 44 his wife.

Velma Jones, 11, a daughter.

Gladys Jones, 5, a daughter.

These four were killed instantly and a seven months old son was seriously injured.  Warren Jones, 6 years old, probably escaped death by crawling out of a rear window of the closed car.

The machine was struck broadside by the passenger train and was thrown to the side of the track with the occupants.  The gas tank of the automobile exploded and flames burned part of the clothing from the bodies.

The Jones machine had stopped on the railroad track and it is not known whether the machine stalled or Mr. Jones became confused.  The boy who crawled from the machine and escaped injury said his father signaled the engineer in an effort to stop
the train.

The train, in charge of Pete Boggs, engineer, and Wilbur Robertson, conductor, both of Indianapolis, was going down grade at high speed and the lad stood by the track and saw the train sweep on into the machine.

The wreckage was carried about 100 yards down the track and caught fire.  The bodies of Mrs. Jones and Velma were carried with the car and were burned.  All the victims are thought to have died instantly, Jones and his wife of crushed chests,
Velma of a fractured skull and Gladys of a broken neck.

The bodies were taken to J.C. Bollinger's undertaking establishment at Henryville for burial preparations and later were taken by Kovernor & Sons to their undertaking establishment at Crothersville.

Truman Jones, the 7-months-old baby of the family, was thrown clear of the wreckage and was found lying face downward on a grassy spot by Mrs. Anna Sohn, who lives near the track and was the first to reach the scene of the crash.  The child was
taken to the hospital in Jeffersonville, where it was said its injuries are not believed to be fatal.

The Jones family was enroute to visit a married daughter, Mrs. Arthur Gates, who lives about four miles east of Underwood.

Mr. Jones was a son of the late "Cull" Jones, who resided in Scottsburg for several years, and Mrs. Jones was a daughter of Noah Tash, of Finley township.

Besides Mrs. Gates, Warren and the baby, other children surviving are Glen, Granville, Lloyd and William Jones, of Crothersville.  Also a large number of relatives in this county.

The Chronicle, Scottsburg, Indiana, Wednesday 26 September 1928.