People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1893 — EIGHT PERSONS KILLED. [ARTICLE]

EIGHT PERSONS KILLED.

A Dozen Others Badly Injured—Sad End of a Sleighing Party. Providence, R. 1., Jan. 18, S a. m.— Word has just reached here that a train crashed into a large sleigh load of people at Lonsdale, a station 8 iniles from hpre, kihir.g eight of the occupants and'injuring a dozen others. As yet every effort to get the details of the horrible affair have proved unavailing. From the meager details It seems that a large party had gone out from Lonsdale to the country for a pleasure ride. On their return they were crossing the railroad track, when the freight ran into the sleigh, cdtnpletely wreck-. ing it. It is said uone of the occupants escaped uninjured No names of the killed or injured have been obtained.