Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1888 — SIX MEN KILLED. [ARTICLE]

SIX MEN KILLED.

A fatal accident occurred at Cable City, a few miles north of Shamokin, Pa., Tuesday evening, on the Pennsylvania railroad, in which six laborers of a gravel train were killed and five fatally injured. The train hands of the gravel train escaped by jumping. A freight train from Sunbury, with more cars than it could place on ®ne raiding, was distributing the cars on several tracks wdien a gravel train ran into its rear enn. The cars of the freight train mounted the gravel train and the laborers, were crushed to death. Out of eleven laborers, but one escaped uninjured. The laborers saw , their danger in time to escape, but were so badly frightened that they were unable to move. It is said the flagman of the freight train was not in position to flag the gravel train. - The -dead were brought to Shamokin and the injured taken to the Miner’s Hospital. * ”

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