Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1888 — OLD SOLDIERS WRECKED. [ARTICLE]

OLD SOLDIERS WRECKED.

An excursion train on the N. Y., P. & 0., road, bearing members of the G. A. R., to Columbus, 0., was wrecked at Wadsworth, 0., Monday. An accident occured to the engine. While waiting for repairs, a heavy freight train thundered down upon and crashed into the passenger train. Four cars were wrecked, two of them being completely demolished. The excursionists had had warning of impending danger and all succeeded in getting out of the cars before the crash come, but as they hurried down the embankment the wrecked coaches rolled down upon them killing four persons outright and injuring twenty-five others more or less seriously. ,