Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1901 — Five Killed in a Wreck. [ARTICLE]

Five Killed in a Wreck.

Train No. 5, the New York-Chicago limited, on the Erie railroad, was wrecked Thursday morning within the town limits of Greenville, Pa. Five passengers were dead when taken from the wreck, several are missing and there are a score badly injured. The dead are Sergeant Major Harry A. Hart, Fort Wood, New York;’ George W. Patterson, Philadelphia, private, company I, Tenth United States infantry, carried card of Iron Molders’ union; Peter J. Curry, Coboco, N. Y., private, Tenth infantry, aged 21; unknown man, aged 25 years; unknown man, only papers on person were a postal card that had been sent to the Adams Produce company, Rushville, Ind., and a ticket from New York to that point. His face was literally torn to shreds.