People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — DISASTROUS SMASH-UP. [ARTICLE]

DISASTROUS SMASH-UP.

Passenger and Pile-Driving Trains Collide and Kill Two Laborers. Crescent City, la., Sept 29.—A passenger train and a work train, having a pile driver attached, collided about 2 miles west of this city at 12 o’clock Wednesday on the Chicago & Northwestern line. The passenger train had left Council Bluffs for this point and the work train left this place in the morning. Two workmen on the pile-driving train were killed and two injured. Loren Petersen and Bert Jackson are the names of the killed. Jackson is a Council Bluffs man. The injured are John Condon and Chris Knudson; the latter will probably die. The trains collided through a misunderstanding, each engineer thinking he was to pass the other train at another place. There was no one injured on the passenger train. The engine of the work train was pushing the train instead of pulling it