People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — STRUCK BY A TRAIN. [ARTICLE]

STRUCK BY A TRAIN.

Throe Men Killed by the Cm Near Greensburg, Fa. Greensbur®, Pa., Dec. 23. —Thursday evening at 6> ©-’clock four men who were walking on the track were struck by passenger engine No. 81 of the Pennsylvania road a quarter of a mile east of here. Three of them were instantly killed. The other escaped with a few scratches. The train was running very fast and the four men were hurled into a ravine 100 feet below. John Scott, an Englishman, the one survivor, knew only one of the men who were killed. He was Arther Cavenaugh,. He said that they had been working at McDonald as miners, and were on their way to Williamstown, Pa., where they expected employment.