People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — Peculiar and Fatal Accident. [ARTICLE]

Peculiar and Fatal Accident.

Marshall. Mo., Aug. 15.—Tuesday night while the Chicago & Alton eastbound passenger train was running between this place and Slater, it struck a cow and the cow's body was thrown upon the cowcatcher. Four tramps were riding thereon, and two of them were killed outright, and a third fatally wounded.