People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — KILLED IN A COLLISION. [ARTICLE]

KILLED IN A COLLISION.

Four Lives Lost in a Railway Wreck Near .Edwardsville, 111. Edwardsville, 111., April 4.—A terrible railroad accident occurred at 6:15 o’clock Monday night on the Jacksonville Southeastern railroad about 3 miles south of Edwardsville, near Glen. Vernon, a mining village. N»». 29, a local freight going south, and No. 10, a passenger accommodation going north, collided, completely wrecking the freight train, both engines and one passenger car. Four men were killed and a number of others seriously injured. The killed are: Cal Ahspaugh, engineer of No. 10; James Hambley, fireman of No. 10; Hugh Woods, fireman of No. 29; “Scotty” Welsh, a workman in mine No. 1 at Glen Carbon.