People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1893 — KILLED AT A CROSSING. [ARTICLE]

KILLED AT A CROSSING.

Mrs. Foley ii®d Her Two Sons Meet Instant Death at Middleton, <X Cincinnati, Oct. 9.—A. frightful crossing accident occurred just this side of Middletowmon the Big Four road Saturday evening. Matt Foley, a wealthy farmer of Monroe, had been at the Hamilton fair with his wife and two sons, aged 18 and 16, They were returning in a two-horse barouche. Seeing the fast Cleveland vestibule train approaching, Mrs. Foley struck the horses with the whips, but in his excitement Foley pulled the lines. The engine struck the vehicle squarely. Mrs. Foley and the two sons were instantly killed, the head of one son being found some distance from the trunk, while the two legs of the other were carried 100 yards. Foley was found to have a hole in his forehead and one arm badly torn. He may live. The horses were terribly mangled.