Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — Her First Railroad Ride. [ARTICLE]

Her First Railroad Ride.

It was the fate of pretty 16-year-old Lizzie-Goddard, of Burnside, Ky., to be frightened to death by the first ride she had ever taken on. the care. Five minutes after she had arrived at Chattanooga on her first railway trip she was dead. Little Miss Goddard had been in constant fear of railroads ail her life and boarded tlie trifin only after much persuasion. The train made a lunge a few miles from the city and she jumped from her seat and screamed in a frantic manner. She at once became unconscious and died as she was being removed from the train. Physicians agree tliat she died of fright