Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1885 — DASHED TO DEATH. [ARTICLE]

DASHED TO DEATH.

The Awful Results of a ColUsion. [Erie (Pa.) special.] A frightful accident occurred on the Nickel-plate Road to-day whereby three lives were lost. Mrs. John Donlin, with her babe and little boy and nurse girl, Sade Mahoney, was riding in the caboose. The train stopped on a trestle over- a ravine at Springfield, where it was run into by another freight Mrs. Donlin grasped her babe and boy and ran out on the p atform, followed by the nurse, when all were hurled over into the abyss, 100 feet in depth. Mrs. Donlip and the nurse were mangled to death, bfit the baby was caught in the boughs of a tre,e and may possibly recover. Mrs. Donlin held on to her child until it was tom froiq. her grasp by the wires below. She was terribly mangled by the wires about the breast Brakeman Thomas Fahey was seriously in. jured in the collision. . In 1862, during the war of the rebellion, Mr. Charles H. Hooper, of Castine, Me., sent a letter home which his wife never received until last month. Twenty-three years were occupied by the missive in coming from Washington to Castine, Gen. G. W.P. Crsns Lee has resigned the Presidency of Washington and Lee University on account of ill-health. Washington has 9,355 licensed dogs, or more in proportion to Ihe population tlian any other city in the Union,. , -Victor Hugo always used quill pens, which he made and mended himself.