People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — Killed by a Train. [ARTICLE]

Killed by a Train.

Washington, Oct 17.—Paul Victor Neuenschvanger and Frank Rebsomer (Swiss) were struck and instantly killed Sunday morning by a train on the Pennsylvania railroad near Magruder’s, a small station near here. Another Swiss named Hassenfrantz, who was with them, was also struck by the train and severely injured and is not expected to live. The men were walking along the tracks and stepped from one to let a northbound train pass, when an express train suddenly rounded a curve on the truck where they stood, striking them with fatal effect, «. __