People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1897 — Killed in a Wreck. [ARTICLE]

Killed in a Wreck.

Going at full speed, a 103 d street electric car at Chicago was struck Thursday afternoon by a Chicago & Eastern Illinois passenger train, which also was going at full speed. Ten seconds after the collision a freight train on an adjoining track and going in the opposite direction completed the wreck of the trolley car. Three persons were killed and four seriously injured.