People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — KILLED BY THE CARS. [ARTICLE]

KILLED BY THE CARS.

An Indiana Farmer, His Wife and Three Children Lose Their Lives at a Crossing Near Wabash. WABASH, Ind., April 24. —An appalling accident occurred at 11 o’clock Saturday in Jackson township, 9 miles southeast of this city. An east-bound express train on the Nickel Plate railroad, while running at a high rate of speed and rounding a sharp curve, struck a wagon containing the family of John S. Smith, consisting of himself, wife and three small children. All were instantly killed, their bodies being horribly mutilated. The head of the youngest child a mere babe, was found on the running board of the engine. The horses escaped uninjured. Mr. Smith was a wealthy farmer.