Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1896 — CORTEGE CUT IN TWO. [ARTICLE]

CORTEGE CUT IN TWO.

St. Paul Express Train Runs Down a Funeral Carriage in Chicago. Without a signal of warning, an express train of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Road cut through a funeral procession at the Paulina street crossing in Chicago. Five persons were buried undef the ruins of a mourning carriage, and two women were so badly injured that they may die. The occupants of two other carriages narrowly escaped the same fate, the horses being pulled up within a few feet of the outbound train. Part of the funeral procession went on, the mourners being unconscious of the fact that some of their number had been nearly killed. Whether the flagman or the engineer of the passeligef train was to blame was not learned. The flagman declares he flagged the train, but the witnesses of the accident tell another story. The engineer, the police say, was at fault in not slowing up in response to the flagman’s signal. Dr. Leonard Jucket, one of the oldest citizens of Elgin and a former resident of Chicago, who died at Elgin at the age of 76 years, possessed the press on which the first legal printing was done in Chicago. Its frame is 9xll. The press was brought from the East by the late Mr. Castle, of Elgin, who first took it to Michigan City, Ind., then to Chicago, find afterward to St. Charles. A San Francisco paper says the Government is preparing tb prosecute the conspirators who perjured themselves to aid James Addison Peralta-Reavis in his mythical claim to 13,000.000 acres of land in New Mexico .worth $75,000,000. Nearly every witness who testified in the case will be indicted.