People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — DEATH AT A CURVE. [ARTICLE]

DEATH AT A CURVE.

A Vandalia Passenger Train Wrecked Near Pocahontas, 111. t St. Louis, June 12. —The New York fast mail and express of the Vandalia line, was wrecked one mile east of Pocahontas, 111., Saturday morning. The fireman, S. A. Paulton, of Terre Haute, Ind., was crushed under the tender and others injured. The train was running about 45 miles an hour, when, on a curve with a twelvefoot embankment, the engineer, Thomas Menifer, felt something, supposed to be the forward truck on the engine, give way. In an instant the engine, tender, two mail cars, a combination car and a coach were in the ditch. Fireman Paulton fell under the tender and was crushed to death. Mail Clerk Henry Albaugh was dangerously crushed in the chest