Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — FOUR KILLED AT A CROSSING. [ARTICLE]

FOUR KILLED AT A CROSSING.

Struck by a Fitchburg; Express Near Williamstown, Mass. Four men were instantly killed while crossing the Fitchburg Railroad track about two miles from Willinmstown, Mass. A party of six men were riding in a two-seated covered carriage. They were returning to North Adams from Bennington and were struck by a west-bounci express. Two of the men, Clorenee Prindle and Edward White, both of Williamstown, escaped by jumping. As the men approached the crossing a freight train was passing eastward. They waited until the caboose of the freight train had gone by and then started to proceed, ap 4 parentjy not seeing the west-bound train, which was advancing across the tracks when the engine struck it.