Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1889 — A RAILWAY DISASTER. [ARTICLE]

A RAILWAY DISASTER.

The Erie Road the Scene of a Bad Accident —Twenty' JLiyss Dost. A Scranton, Pa., dispatch says: A torri ble railway disaster is reported from Big Plats, between Waverly Slid Elmira on the Erie Road. A Lehigh Valley freight train was run into by two closely following sections of the Erie freight, and the whole mass of wreckage was plunged into by an Erie passenger train running forty miles an hour. The engineer and fireman of the passenger train were killed outright. The wreck ago caught fire,and a number of passenger? were killed, burned to death or badly injured. The report places the number oi lives lost at not less than twenty. A Quadruple H inging. Four murderers—Patrick Packenham Jack Lewis (colored), James Nolan anc Ferdinand Carelln—were hanged in th< yard of the Tom ha prison, Now York, Fri day, at 6:55 a. m. Carotin murdered dtii mistress. Lewis murdered Alice Jackson Janies Nolan murdered Ms nV.rebs, ant Packenhkm his Wife. 1- l ft