Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1903 — SIX KILLED BY TRAIN. [ARTICLE]

SIX KILLED BY TRAIN.

Wisconsin Central Expreis Demolishes a Chicago Trolley Car. Six persons are now dead and nine others badly injured as the result of a collision between a wont-bound Wisconsin Central limited train, “tho cannonball express,” and a Chicago Consolidated electric car at 52d avenue. The cause of tho accident is declared to have been neglect of duty on the part of the crew of the electric car. Wil nesses say that the conductor failed to stop at the crossing and go ahead to soe if the way was clear. Instead the motonuan rushed the car straight into the path of the engine. The electric car was going at full speed as it crossed the railway tracks. Suddenly tho motorium saw headlight of an approaching engine and grasping the brake he turned it, rapidly. Tho chain wns loose nnJ the car shot ahead. Terrified, he shouted a warning to the passengers and then jumped. Tho eloctric car was caught squarely in the middle by tho engine and shattered into splinters. The occupants of the car were thrown high in the air and some were found dead sixtjr feet away, tbeir bodies borrlhly mangled.