Newspaper Tidbits from Rick B Tuesday, May 23, 2006 "The South Bend Weekly Tribune", Saturday, January 15, 1898, page 9 Engineer Osborne Killed. Mr. Andrew Osborne received a telephone message from Chicago Tuesday conveying the unwelcome news that his brother, William F. Osborne, a locomotive engineer on the Illinois Central railroad, had been killed in an accident. No further particulars were given. The deceased was 34 years old and unmarried. He had been with the Illinois Central railway since 1891. The remains will be intered at Laporte.