Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1919 — TWO DIE IN RAILROAD WRECK [ARTICLE]

TWO DIE IN RAILROAD WRECK

St. Paul Train Jumps Track Near Rockford —Thirty-Five Injured. Chicago, Feb. 25.—Two persons were killed and at least 35 injured when a Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul local passenger train struck a spread rail and plunged over a 40-foot embankment six miles west- of Rockford, 111. Some of the injured will die. The entire train went down the incline. The wrecked train carried mostly passengers for Omaha and Kansas City and was bound from Janesville, Wis., to Davis Junction, where change of cars is made to the crack Chicago-Kansas City flyer, which leaves Chicago at 6 p. m. All of the injured were rushed to Rockford on special trains. ,