Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1891 — MET A HORRIBLE DEATH. [ARTICLE]

MET A HORRIBLE DEATH.

A Freight Train In Nebraska Rushes Into a Washout Seventy-five Feet Deep. A Burlington fast freight of twentythree cars on the Lincoln and Black Hills branch plunged into an abyss seventyfive feet deep, says a telegram from York, Neb. Engineer Delaney and Firoman Bean ate lying dead and horribly mangled beneath the upturned engine and twelve cars. Brakeman Moore was rescued from the death trap with a derrick. An enormous iron spike passed through his body, pinning him to the bottom of the hole. In falling, an arm and leg had been torn from his body. For several hundred yards wide wreckage is piled in confusion, surrounded by dead t attle with which the train was loaded. Owing to the frightful condition of the wreck, as a result of the storm, no effort has been made to repair the damago. The wreck was caused by the flood. Had tho express been on time the death list would have been great. The damage will reach $50,000.