Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1877 — An Extraordinary Railroad Accident. [ARTICLE]

An Extraordinary Railroad Accident.

A fatal and singular accident recently occurred on the Pennsylvania railroad. An express train, which was going at a rapid speed, struck one of a party of four tramps who had stepped on the track to avoid a freight train which was coming the other way, near Forestdale, N. J. The train struck him with such force as to hurl him against a telegraph pole and sever his head from his body. The head flying, and striking another tramp, broke bis leg. It is said that every bone in the body of the tramp who was killed was broken. )