Herald of Truth - 1 December 1898: METZLER.-On Oct. 19, 1898, John Metzler, aged 23 years, 11 months and 18 days. He was the youngest son of John Metzler, a minister in the Brethren Church. He was crushed to death in a wreck on the Vandalia railroad near Logansport, Ind. He left his father's home near Wakarusa, on Tuesday morning, to go to Illinois. He, in company with two other young men, one of whom was killed, was riding on a heavily loaded freight train. On this side of Logansport through some means the rear of the train became detached, but it being down grade when the first section stopped, the rear crashed into it, throwing some of the cars into the ditch. It is supposed that he was on top of a car on the rear section, and when it crashed into the first section he was thrown forward and the cars on top of him. When found he was in the water, under a car loaded with Studebaker wagons. He was brought home on Thursday. Funeral services were conducted on Saturday by Amsey Puterbaugh, from Isa. 1:18, at the Olive M. H., where a large concourse of people assembled to pay their last tribute of respect to the deceased.
Herald of Truth - 1 December 1898: METZLER.-On Oct. 19, 1898, John Metzler, aged 23 years, 11 months and 18 days. He was the youngest son of John Metzler, a minister in the Brethren Church. He was crushed to death in a wreck on the Vandalia railroad near Logansport, Ind. He left his father's home near Wakarusa, on Tuesday morning, to go to Illinois. He, in company with two other young men, one of whom was killed, was riding on a heavily loaded freight train. On this side of Logansport through some means the rear of the train became detached, but it being down grade when the first section stopped, the rear crashed into it, throwing some of the cars into the ditch. It is supposed that he was on top of a car on the rear section, and when it crashed into the first section he was thrown forward and the cars on top of him. When found he was in the water, under a car loaded with Studebaker wagons. He was brought home on Thursday. Funeral services were conducted on Saturday by Amsey Puterbaugh, from Isa. 1:18, at the Olive M. H., where a large concourse of people assembled to pay their last tribute of respect to the deceased.
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