Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1885 — A Very Peculiar Accident. [ARTICLE]

A Very Peculiar Accident.

[Centralia (TIL) special J » M very peculiar accident happened at Sandoval, six miles north of this point, Saturday last A little girl named Birkley was playing around a plow, the’ tongue of which had been propped up with a stick. Under the tongue an iron kettle having four pointed legs was turned upside down, in some way the child knocked the prop out, when the tongue came down, catching the child’s head on one of the legs, which penetrated the brain, causing her death. Ik England the freight trains will average a speed of twenty-five miles an hour