Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1895 — FOUR KILLED AT A CROSSING. [ARTICLE]

FOUR KILLED AT A CROSSING.

Struck by a Fitchburg Express Near Williainstown, Mass. Four men were instantly killed while crossing the Fitchburg Railroad track aiout two miles from Williamstown, Mass. A party of six men were riding in a two-seated covered carriage. They were returning to North Adams from Bennington and were struck by a west-bound express. Two of the men, Clorence Prindle Edward White, both of Williamstown, escaped by jumping. As the men approached the crossing a freight train was passing eastward. They waited un : til the caboose of the freight train had gone by nnd then started to proceed, apparently not seeing the west-bound train, which was advancing across the tracks when the engine struck it.