Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1902 — Fatal Work-Train Wreck. [ARTICLE]

Fatal Work-Train Wreck.

A Kalispell, Mont., special says: "Guy Croffoth of Troy, Mont., was killed and Bridge Foreman Collins was badly injured in a work train wreck on the Jennings btanch of the Great Northern. J. R. Brown, for thirty years keeper of the Point Bonita lighthouse, is dead of pneumonia nt Nauslito, near San Francisco, aged 70 years. During his entire term of service he was never absent from his post of duty and assisted in the saving of many lives from vessels in peril off the Golden Gate. Dcspote the protests of their employers, 700 of the 1,000 wagon men employed in Chicago by the four big express companies formally organized the labor union which fol several weeks has been In process of fcituation.