Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — PANIC ON A TROLLEY. [ARTICLE]

PANIC ON A TROLLEY.

MANY NARROWLY ESCAPE BEING KILLED. Cap Crashes Into a Swiftly Moving. Passenger Train—Over Thirty Injured in New Orleans Accident—Fatal Creasing Collision in Ohio. Electric Car Takes a Pinnae. Electric ear No. 501, of the Western avenue line, at Chicago, took a wild plunge into a moving passenger train of the Burlington Road at'the 10th street crossing at 5:0(1 o'clock Monday evening. AftM the Collision there was not enough left of the street ear to make, kindling WBod, bill the passengers all' jumped in time to save themselves, and escaped with more or less severe injuries. The worst injury received was by Mrs. Hugo Miller, of West. Madison street, who had a sprained ankle. A curious feature of the affair is that a year ago the Burlington secured an injunction forbidding the street car company front using electricity in crossing its tracks, and until a few' days ago it had been using horses at that crossing. The injunction, however, was dissolved and tire trolley wires strung across the right of K ay. ■Accident at. n Ferry. At New Orleans thirty persons were injured and three others, it Js! feared, were drowned by the breaking down of the little iron bridge which leads from the Algiers ferry-house to the floating wharf, where the ferry-boat is accustomed to land. —It was nearly dusk when the aepident occurred. The waiting passengers crowded onto the bridge as soon as the ferry-boat was in sight. The boat, the Thomas Pickier, was also crowded. The engines were slowed down on approaching the wharf, and as usual the treat almost drifted to her landing. However, the stern of the vessel humped against the end of tire pontoon, and with a crash the iron span parted and a lunfor more frantic people were dumped into the water among the piling and drifting timbers. The men on the pontoon and those in the ferry-house did not wait a moment before they began to look toward assisting those in the water. "While hundreds of strong hands grasped every plank within reach on the pontoon and dashed them into the water for the unfortunates to cling (©•dozens devoted their efforts to pacifying the women and children ou the pontoon. - Four Men Kilted. East-bound accommodation No. 50 on the Panhandle Railroad crashed into a wagon at Miller’s: Station. Ohio, about 7:30 o’clock Monday morning, demolishing the vehicle and killihg the four occupants. Their names were: Edward Cogau, Samuel Cogan, Jr., Samuel Cogan, Sr., John Campbell. The bodies were horribly mangled. There is a sharp curve near the crossing and the engineer claims he did not see the wagon until too late to atop the train. The victims were residents of Youngstown, near Latrobe, Pa. Battle of "Words Only. The Fitzsimmons-Corbett fight will not come off after all, either at Hot Sprnigs or anywhere else. What Gov. Clarke has endeavored to accomplish was done Monday by the Florida Athletic Club when it declared the light off. Corbett and his manager wanted to postpone until the present excited opposition to the affair had d ied out, and a meeting could be arranged—on the quiet. Fitzsimmons objected to this, and declared for what he knew was impossible under the law. Each of the principles is already busy calling "the other coward and liar, and preparing for the stage tour which after all was the paramount 'and pre arranged object of the projected fight.