Plummer - Frank
Source: Crawfordsville Star, Feb 17, 1898 p 1
Frank Plummer, a BIg Four freight fireman was killed near the Sugar Creek bridge at 4 o'clock on Wednesday morning. He fell between the tender and engine by the tender becoming unshacked from the engine, dropping to the track and being ground up by 40 cars. He was fireman on the second engine of a "double headed" freight train. He was mangled to an unreconizable shape. He was taken to the undertaking establishment of Carver & Robbins where the corner proceeded to hold an inquest. Plummer met his death in a way very common and very terrible with firemen. - transcribed with a heavy heart and souring stomach by kbz