Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1898 — Trains Collide. [ARTICLE]

Trains Collide.

Springfield, 111., April 15?—A paasengqr and freight train collided at a curve near Edwardsville, on the Chicago <£• Alton railroad, early Thursday morning. Both engines were badly wrecked. Fireman VV. H. Lennox, of Bloomington, on the freight engine, was probably fatally injured, while Engineer John Downs, of Bloomington, of the passenger train, was badly bruised. . The entire crew of the freight train was dlsjharged.