Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1912 — TRAIN BEHEADS TWO [ARTICLE]

TRAIN BEHEADS TWO

FOUR PERSONS KILLED WHEN ENGINE HITS AUTO. Party of lowans on Pleasure Trip Meet Death at Crossing Near Geneva, 111. Aurora, 111., July 3. —Four persons; two of whom, a man and a woman, were beheaded, were killed when the east-bound Los Angeles Limited of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad hit an automobile at Nelson's Crossing, two miles west of Geneva, 111. The occupants were all wealthy residents of Granger, la., enjoying an automobile trip from their home to Chicago and return. They chugged directly in front of the train and werd dashed to death before they hardly had tijne to know what had struck them. The dead: N. S. Anderson, fifty years old. Mrs. N. S. Anderson, fofty-eight years old. George Hanley, forty years old. James Hanley, thirty-eight years old. The accident brought to an end what had been the first long automobile ride Mr. and Mrs. Anderson had ever enjoyed. Anderson, head of the Granger Elevator cbmpany, had received an invitation from the Hanley brothers, lumber dealerjs, to accompany them, with his wife, on an automobile trip to Chicago In their machine. They left last Wednesday and had spent several days visiting with friends In Clftfago, and were on their return trip.