Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1886 — FOUR MEN KILLED. [ARTICLE]

FOUR MEN KILLED.

jfTrain in Tera? Plunges Through a Trestle, Cau»ing Fatal Results. [Kildare (Tex".") special.] A terrible accident occurred about two miles west of this place, resulting in the loss of four lives and the serious injury of one of the leading business men of Cass County. At the time mentioned, the log train on the Jefferson Lumber Company’s logging railway, running from Kildare down into the pineries, was running at a high rate of speed coming toward town. The train consisted of an engine" and three heavily loaded flaljcars, and was in the middle of a 250-fcot trestle fourteen feet high, when the structure —suddenly gave way, letting the entire train through, instantly killing the engineer, W. W. Skidmore, and three negio. s who had boarded the train oqly a few moments before it reached the trestle. The bodies of the negroes were crushed to jelly, the great logs rolling over them and flattening them out to the thickness of one’s hand. Mr. S. F. Bemis, one of the proprietors of the Jefferson Lumber Company, was sitting in the cab when the train went down, and while Skidmore, the engineer, was killed, Mr. Bemis escaped with several serious wounds, but it is thought he will •recover. His legs and hands are terribly scalded by the escaping steam, but he had presence of mind enough to threw himself on the ground, facedown. —Mrs. Harriet —French Endicott, mother of the Secretary of War, died at Salem, Mass., last week, at the age of 85 - years. - - - .■ John G. Whittier writes to a Jfriend: "The long, hard winter has left "me very pootly in health. I dread to touch peu and paper.” Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, has a 6-year-old daughter who insists on being called a Democrat, and hurrahs for Mi. 'Cleveland. ... .', - ' Sam Jones expects to go to Baltimore in May and to Toledo in July. (