People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — Bad Train Wreck in Missouri. [ARTICLE]

Bad Train Wreck in Missouri.

Sedalia, Mo., April 15. —A bad wreck occurred Tuesday morning near Gasconade station, in which three persons were fatally and another seriously injured. A freight train stopped to take water. A second freight ran into the first, knocking out one span of the bridge. Twenty-three cars were demolished and others damaged. Three tramps, Henry Bremerman, W. E. Stanfield and E. J. Stuart, who were stealing a ride, were fatally injured, and another, Peter McEshernhack, was badly hurt. Nine cars went into the river.