Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1901 — Wild Run by a Trolley Car. [ARTICLE]

Wild Run by a Trolley Car.

â– Pittsburg dispatch: Five persona were injured, one fatally, by jumping from a runaway traction car on the hill above New Homestead. They were: Mary Ellen Roach, aged lo years, skull fractured; will die; William Kelly, conductor, aged 32 years; John Lacey, aged 15 years; Martin Lacey, aged 11 years; James Lacey, aged 9 years. All but the girl will recover. The car did not leave the tracks, ami the motorman, who stuck to his post, was not injured.