Bloomington (IN) Evening World, July 11, 1910, p. 1. TWO KILLED AT R. R. CROSSING Indianapolis Southern Train Runs over Aged Couple at Helmsburg Thomas Kelso and Wife Meet Death on Road to Church Thomas Kelso, aged 68, a prominent farmer and land owner residing in the Lick Creek neighborhood, Brown County, and his wife, Mary Kelso, aged 65, were instantly killed by an Indianapolis Southern passenger train about nine o'clock Sunday morning at the crossing near Helmsburg. The aged couple was in a buggy on their way to attend church at Georgetown when death in a horrible form overtook them. The point where Kelso was attempting to cross the railroad tracks is near the approach of a deep cut, and the engineer of the westbound train was unable to see the vehicle until the train was upon it. Running at its usual rate of speed, the engine struck the buggy completely demolishing it. Kelso and his wife were tossed high into the air, falling immediately in front of the rushing train. Again were the bodies of the unfortunate victims picked up by the pilot that completed its gruesome work of mutilation. Kelso's head was crushed out of all human semblance from the shoulders up, his brains being scattered for several yards along the track, and nearly every bone in his body broken. Mrs. Kelso was decapitated, the head being severed at the shoulders as if done by a guillotine. The train, which was in charge of Conductor Ackerman, was stopped as soon as possible, and the train crew gathered up the fragments of the bodies and placed them in improvised boxes. They were taken to Helmsburg and turned over to the agent and the coroner of Brown County notified. Strange to relate, the horse was uninjured and was caught some distance from the scene of the tragedy by a farmer. The buggy was reduced to kindling wood. The accident cast a pall of gloom over Brown County when the news became known. Few men in that county were held in higher esteem than Thomas Kelso, a pioneer resident. He was a man of means and a lifelong member of the Methodist church. It had been the custom for years for Mr. and Mrs. Kelso to drive each Sunday to Georgetown to attend worship, and when the weather was not too inclement, they were always to be found in their pew Sabbath morning. After viewing the remains and securing all the evidence at hand bearing on the tragedy, the coroner ordered the remains of the unfortunate victims returned to their home where preparations for the burial were completed and the funeral held this afternoon. The obsequies were attended by hundreds of people, the interment following at the family cemetery in the immediate neighborhood. No blame is attached to the engineer of the train as it was impossible for him to see the buggy until his engine was upon it. Coming out of a deep cut and on a curve, he was not aware of Kelso's predicament until within a few yards of the vehicle. He promptly shut off steam and applied the emergency brakes but the collision was inevitable and the tragedy enacted in the twinkling of an eye. Sympathetic trainmen gathered up the scattered remains of the aged couple and took them to Helmsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Kelso are survived by several grown children.