Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1895 — AWFUL DISASTER. [ARTICLE]

AWFUL DISASTER.

Five Coaches tumble Down Into a Canon —Forty Killed. A City of Mexico special, Feb. 28. says; An excursion train coming into the city or the Interoceanic railroad met with an accident this morning. While rounding a curve on the side of a mountain five coaches jumped the track and went dowr. the canon. Forty-two people were killed and thirty or more seriously injured. Th* accident occurred about forty kilometers from the city. Wires have been down and it has been impossible, so far, to obtain any details of the awful disaster. Kentucky Prohibitionists have nomi nated a State ticket.