Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1904 — SEVEN PERSONS DIE IN COLLISION [ARTICLE]

SEVEN PERSONS DIE IN COLLISION

Passenger Train Running at High Speed Crashes into a Street Car at St. Louis. St. Louis. Sept s.—Seven persons were killed and twenty-five injured, several fatally, in the wrecking of a Suburban street car by a Wabash passenger train at the Sarah street crossing. The train, east bound, which is said to have been running nt a speed of thirty miles an hour, struck the car, which was running north, squarely in tbe center. The occupants of the car had no chance to escape. Thp dead and wounded were curried into the Empire brewery, which adjoins the scene of the wreck. Five ambulances were summoned and the injured were taken to hospitals, while the dead bodies were conveyed to the morgue.