Fatal Casualty
Item
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Title
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Fatal Casualty
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Publisher
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W.H. Nelson
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Nelson & Pummill,
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Edward F. Sibley, 1861-1866
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E.F. Sibley & G.S. and Curt K. Emrie, <1866>
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E.F. Sibley, <1867>-1868
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Place
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Aurora, IN
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Date
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29 Sep 1859
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Language
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English
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Temporal coverage
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1859-1868
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Description
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Text from the article states the following:
"On Tuesday night last Paschal Rucker Esq., of Boone co. Ky., with his wife and a little negro girl about eight years of age, (a gift to Mrs. R. from her mother,) came to this city for the purpose of taking the cars on the Ohio and Mississippi rail-road for Saint Louis. When the train arrived they proceeded to get on board, and just as they reached the platform the cars started. Mrs. R. stepped from one car to another and the little girl, who had hold of her dress, in attempting to follow her, stepped between the cars, and falling on the track was run over and instantly killed. Her head was nearly severed from her body and she was otherwise shockingly mutilated. The train was stopped as soon as possible but when she was dragged out from under the track life was entirely extinct."
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Accessed online at Newspaperarchive.com
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Bibliographic citation
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About the Aurora Commercial. Library of Congress, <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025592/>
Fatal Casualty