Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — FIVE CRUSHED UNDER A TRAIN. [ARTICLE]

FIVE CRUSHED UNDER A TRAIN.

Miners Meet Death While Riding Home on Cars Loaded with Coal. Pittsburg dispatch: Five men lie at the bottom of Brush Creek, Westmoreland County, with sixteen cars and their loads of coal piled on top of them The killed are: Wilson Brown, 40 years old, married; Thomas Jenkins, 60 years old, married; William Jenkins, son of the above, 25 years old, single; Owen Owens, 35 years old, married; Martin Polakcsy, 30 years old, single. A train of twentyfive cars of coal pulled out of the Westmoreland Coal Company's works, three miles from Larimer, Pa. Just before reaching the main line; the trucks of one car broke down. The impetus of the train carried it onto the bridge across Brush Creek, and broke down the structure. The disabled car went through and was followed by fifteen more cars, all loaded. A number of miners employed by the Westmoreland Coal Company were riding on the train to their homes at Larimer. The men on the other cars jumped and escaped with a Jew bruises.