People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — STRUCK BY A TRAIN. [ARTICLE]

STRUCK BY A TRAIN.

Fatal Termination of a Sleigh Ride—Two Lives Lost and Two Persons FatallyHurt. Paterson, N. J., Jan. 25.—A sleigh with a party of six, returning home to Passaic City, was struck by an Erie locomotive at the Monroe street crossing in Passaic half an hour after midnight Mamie Ryan, 22 years old, was instantly killed; Maggie Splain, 21 years . old, so badly injured that she died a few hours later. Mrs. Thomas O’Brien, the divorced wife of a saloon-keeper on West street, New York, and John Moore (colored), driver of the sleigh, were fatally injured. There was no flagman nor gate at the crossing. The locomotive struck the sleigh squarely, completely demolished it and killed the two horses. The occupants were thrown in all directions. The injured were taken to the Emergency hospital at Passaic. Miss Ida Bashaw, another of the occupants of the sleigh, was badly cut about the head, but it is thought she will recover.