Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1901 — The Worst Railroad Wreck. [ARTICLE]

The Worst Railroad Wreck.

The bad wreck at Cass station, on the Wabash, last week, was similar in many respects, though not nearly so bad, as the great 1 disaster at Chatsworth, 111., about 15 years ago. That was the most frightful railway wreck that ever 1 happened in the United States. I The death claims at this wreck ! were settled for $290,000 and the money was raised by the T. P. & W. road, which at that time was a new corporation, by the sale of bonds. Thiarwreck was due to the burning of a small bridge and the wreck train was an excursion" to“ Niagara Falls. All of the cars were filled with passengers and at the time of the accident the train was moving at a fast rate of speed. The cars were hurled into the gully many feet below the bridge. Eigh-ty-one persons, were killed outright and one hundred and fifty-sevetiT injured to such an extent that they were disabled throughout life. A fierce rain storm was raging at the time of the wreck, about 2 o’clock in the morning, and the horrors of that wreck have never been duplicated, the great Ashtabula disaster coming nearest in its dreadfulness. The T, P. & W. excursion was running over the Wabash tracks to Niagara when the wreck occurred.