People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — CHOSE A HORRIBLE DEATH. [ARTICLE]

CHOSE A HORRIBLE DEATH.

A Man Throws Himself Before a Train and Is Killed. St. Louts, Nov. 6. —J. W. Kaname committed suicide Thursday morning by throwing himself in front of the fast Chicago train on the Illinois Central just after it had pulled out as Highland, HL The engine was within 10 feet of him when the man east himself across the track and grasped the opposite rail. In an instant his body was torn and mangled and life left him forever. II is body was cut in two al the waist. He leaves a wife and nine children.