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The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1860., [Electronic resource], A father killed while saving his child. (search)
A father killed while saving his child.
--As the eastern train on the Illinois Central Railroad was leaving Dunleith on Wednesday evening, Thomas Jefferson, a porter at the U. S. Hotel, of Dunleith, in attempting to remove his child, who was standing on the track in front of the engine, was himself ran over by the cars and both of his legs were cut off — the accident resulting fatally in a few hours.