The Columbia Star August 30, 1894 SERIOUS ACCIDENT On the Elevated Railroad in St. Louis The Engineer Heralded. St. Louis, August 28 – At 1 a.m. while a freight train of twenty cars was moving south on the elevated tracks on the levee the engine struck a broken frog at the foot of the Clark avenue, derailing it. Before Engineer Thomas Rusk could reverse the lever one freight car, loaded with onions, and the coal tender broke loose and jumped headlong to the granite- paved levee, a distance of 20 feet. Rusk was thrown from the cab underneath the engine. Fireman James Rocks saved himself by jumping. The engineer was not so fortunate. He was caught in the debris and fatally scalded by the escaping steam. Six other cars were derailed but did not leave the elevated structure. Brakemen J.W. Schroeder and Frank Harrison, who were in charge of the train, were in the rear, and escaped injury. The loss will reach fully $10,000. FATAL WRECK On the Lake Shore Railroad Near Erie, Pa. Erie, Pa., - August 28 – A Lake Shore freight train was wrecked near this city early this morning. Brakeman William Rohm of Collinwood, O., who was on top of the caboose at the time, was thrown against the cupola seriously injured. The crew found a young man of very respectable appearance, well-dressed and wearing a jockey-cap, crushed to death between two large stones on a flat car. Fatal Collision Chicago, August 28 – An inbound Chicago & Eastern Illinois passenger train collided with a light Chicago & Erie engine at Thirty-Seventh Street. There were but few passengers on the train at the time, and one received serious injuries. Daniel Cannon, fireman of the Chicago & Erie Railroad, was fatally injured and two other railway employees seriously.