Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1901 — Six Die In Train Wreck. [ARTICLE]

Six Die In Train Wreck.

A switch not properly set brought a passenger express and a heavy freight train together, killing six passengers on the express train and injuring twenty-five others, on the main line of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad at Avon. The dead are: William J. Coughlin of Lowell, real estate dealer; feustav Hay, Jr., of Boston, lawyer; Everett Joyce of Brockton, shoe manufacturer; Miss M. W. Tonkin of Oil City, Pa., seminary student; two unidentified women.