Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1890 — A CHAPTER OF DISASTERS. [ARTICLE]

A CHAPTER OF DISASTERS.

Railway, Street Car and Other Fatal Accldente, A railway train running twenty miles an hour struck an electric street train of two cars at Cleveland on the 6th. A terrible scene resulted. The cars were hurled to one side and completely demolished. Of the twenty passengers aboard one was killed and eleven badly injured. The second section of a train on the Denver & Rio Grande dashed into the first section, which had been derailed near Adobe, Col. There were two coaches attached to the first section, which were carrying laborers. These coaches were demolished and five of the laborers killed and thirty-seven of them injured. Thirty persons were hurt in a collision near South Newark, Conn. A passenger train collides with a passenger car at Lexington, Mo. Three lives lost. Thirty-six freight cars and the engine went through a bridge and fell sixty feet near Charlotte, N. C. Though some of the train men went down with the wreck none of them were seriously hurt. A baby in its carriage fell five stories the 6th. The buggy struck on a bale of rags. The baby reboundeAand was caught uninjured in the a gentleman standing near. I <v A premature blast in the Northern Pacific yardsat Spokane Falls, Wash., threw 25,000 cubic feet of rock into a crowd of laborers. Fifteen men were instantly killed and many hurt. Nine persons were injured in a tornado near Parkersburg, W. Va., on the 7th.