A Bad Smash Up

April 11, 1889

Chicago, April 10- The coroner was notified this morning that a fatal accident had occurred on the Santa Fe road near Joliet, Ill., this morning. The report as it reached him said four men were killed but no particulars were given.

Partial details of the accident which occurred on the Chicago, Santa Fe and California railroad near Joliet, this morning have been received here. It is resulted from a collision between passenger and freight trains. Three persons were killed outright and several more or less seriously injured. The killed are Mr. and Miss Hart, of Brookline, Mass., and the engineer of the freight train. J. L. Hart, father of the two passengers who were killed, was fatally hurt. The bodies have been brought to this city.

source: The Daily Huronite.
location: Huron, South Dakota

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