Murder in a Railway Train by Charles Hindley, Curiosities of Street Literature (London 1871)

... Murdered by some prigs was poor Mr. Briggs,
whilst riding in a railway train ...

and...if that's too lowbrow...
→[More:]Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
OR,
ENQUIRIES
Into very many Received
Tenents
And commonly presumed
Truths. By Thomas Brown Knight, M. D. Based on The Sixth and Last Edition of 1672-- it's supposedly the mythbusters of its era.