People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — HURLED TO DEATH. [ARTICLE]

HURLED TO DEATH.

Frightful Accident on a Railway Bridge in West Vlrglna. Cumberland, Md., Nov. 27. —Sunday morning at 9 o’clock a terrible accident occurred at Green Spring, W. Va., 18 miles east of this place, resulting in the death of Isaac Taylor, aged 60 years, his wife, aged 58 and a Miss Kidwell, aged 17 years. They were crossing the south branch bridge on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad when the New York & Chicago express train, west bound, caine thundering along at the rate of 45 miles an hour and struck the three and hurled them into the river below, a distance of 60 feet, killing them instantly.