Tiskilawa, IL Train Wreck, Sept 1904
Three Killed in Illinois.
Princeton, Ill., Sept. 8.—The Kansas City fast passenger train on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, has been wrecked one-half east of Tiskilawa and more than Thirty persons were badly injured, three of whom have since died.
The passenger train collided with the rear end of a freight train that had broken in two. The engine driver escaped injury and the fireman was serious hurt.
Half a dozen passenger cars were wrecked and the passengers thrown in every direction, eight landing in a cornfield at one side of the track. Many of the injured were taken to Tiskilawa and others to the hospital at La Salle.
The dead are a man supposed to be named Donaldson, of Chicago, an unindentified{sic} Italian, and another unidentified man.
Daily People, New York, NY 9 Sept 1904