Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1887 — A Narrow Escape. [ARTICLE]

A Narrow Escape.

Grand Army men returning from St. Louis, Friday morning, on the Misaqiip i Pacific, narrowly escaped an awful slaughter at Valley Park, Mq. The train was run in' two sections, both loaded withG. A. B. men and their families; At the point named the second section crashed into the first, titally demolishing two chair ears, which" were afterward consumed by fire. The passengers were well shaken up and many sligiitlv injured, but none fatally. The engineer arid fireman of the second section were probably fatally hurt. The accident was ciusedbv the first section failing to display signals.