Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1909 — FOUR ON HANDCAR KILLED [ARTICLE]

FOUR ON HANDCAR KILLED

Nine Persona Were on Vehicle When Freight Train Hit It. Wausau, Wis„ Sept. 28.—Four persons were killed and three injured in a collision of a freight train and a handcar one mile west of Edgar. Nine persons on the car returning from church at Poniatowaski, and reached a rocky cut on the road when the freight train crashed into them. They were hurled against rocks. The dead are: Joseph Kaul, thirty-five years old, section foreman of the Northwestern road; Joseph Kaul, child; Mary Kaul, five years old; Victor Literski twenty-five years old. Mrs. Kaul was badly injured, but her fifteen-months-old babe escaped entirely.