Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1879 — Killed in the Honeymoon. [ARTICLE]

Killed in the Honeymoon.

Yesterday morning, about 10 o’clock, as the night express from Buffalo on the Erie road was leaving Turner’s Station and the motion yet slow, a World reporter, who happened to be one of the passengers in the rear car, heard a young woman excitedly exclaim to another young woman as they both rose together, “Oh, Lizzie, that was our station!” They then immediately and impulsively ran to the end platform and, without pausing to consider how the train had quickened, jumped pff, one on each side. In. the few seconds which had elapsed between their rising and gaining the platform the speed of the train was greatly accelerated. The bell was immediately rung to stop, the train was backed, and the conductor, with several of the passengers, proceeded to the spot, only to find the unfortunate women lying where they fell, and the eldest of them dead. The youngest, after being attended to by some ladies in the drawing-room car, revived sufficiently to spasmodically ask, “Louise, are you hurt?” Then the train was backed to Turner’s Station, where the body of the unfortunate lady and her grief-stricken sister were left.

The depot agent at once recognized them. The one killed was Mrs. Louisa La roe, who had been only five weeks a bride as the wife of Mr. Henry Laroe, a ticket agent at one of the neighboring stations on the branch road running to Montgomery. She was only twenty-two years old and a beautiful and winning person. It was clear that she had been instantly killed by concussion of the spine. Her sister was Miss Lizzie Clark and only eighteen years old. She is badly bruised, and, as it is feared, injured internally. These circumstances added to her heartrending grief will, it was said, so shock her system that fatal results may follow. The husband, widowed in his honeymoon, was immediately telegraphed for. The remains and the Unhappy survivor were at once tenderly cared for by the family of the two sisters residing at Turner’s.—[N. Y. World, July 4.