Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1885 — DASHED TO DEATH. [ARTICLE]

DASHED TO DEATH.

The Awful Results of a Collision. [Erie (Pa.) special.] A frightful accident occurred on the Nickel-plate Road to-day whereby three lives were lost. Mrs. John Donlin, with her babe and little boy and nurse girl, Sade Mahoney, was riding in the caboose. The train stopped on a trestle over a ravine at Springfield, where it was run into by another freight. Mrs. Donlin grasped her babe and boy and ran out on the p atform, followed by the nurse, when all were hurled over into the abyss, 100 feet in depth. Mrs. Donlin and the nurse were mangled to death, but the baby was caught in the boughs of a tree and may possibly recover. Mrs. Donlin held on to her child until it was tom from her grasp by the wires below. She was terribly mangled by the wires about the breast. Brakeman Thomas Fahey was seriously injured in the collision.