The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-18
Dreadful Railroad Accident.
Collision on the Chicago & Al,
ton Railroad. u
"A Car Full Of Passengers
= Torn to Pieces.
The Passengers Cooked With
Hot Steam.
Eleven Dead and Thirty
five Wounded.

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CuIcAao, August 17.-A terrible accl'
dent occurred at half past ten O'Clock
last night, near Lemont on the Chicago
& Alton Railroad. An incoming freight
train collided with the south bound ex-
press passenger train, almost entirely
wrecking the latter, killing six personl
outright and iearfully injuring thirty
seven others, many Of whom It b said will
die. The cars caught fire and numbers
Of the injured were burned, while Others
were badly scalded by hot water from
the locomotive boiler. Lemont Is sltu-
ated about twenty miles south Of this
city, and the accident was not known
here until between IL and l o'clock this
morning, and then only to parties who
happened to ascertain that surgeons had
been sent for to go TO the wrecked train.
| It is impossible to give full particulars at
the present writing, but they wilfbe sent
later. Among those dangerously injured
ID Hon.J. ". Smith, warden Of the Hin
ois State Penitentiary.
LATER. "a %. ~.
CHICAGO, August 1.-THE total num-
Der OF killed and dead Of their injuries by
the collision on the Chicago & Alton rail.
road, near Lemont lest night, Is, up TO
three o'clock this afternoon, eleven, and
of wounded thirty.hve. The following Is
tho list furnished by tho officials Of the
railroad, and Is doubtless correct: Killed.
John Metzler, an engineer belonging to
the Baltimore s. Ohio rAiiFoAdI two aro-
men belonging to the collidipg trains,
names unknown; Frank Bridges, Gppar-
emily \ fireman; N. Divelbiz, Jr., Spring
field, ILL.,; Thomas Morton, porter in An
derson's Hotel, Chicago; two men, whose
bodies are as yet unidentified. injured;
Captain John a. Smith, warden of the
Illinois penitentiaEy, at Joliet, badly
scalded, cannot recover; ]. F. Flepry, pur-
chasing agent for Joliet, ILL.,, penitentiary,
fatally, will not live till night; Anton
Finkieman, st. Louis, badly, probably Ia
tally; NJ. q. CantwelI, Chicago, badly
bruised; VIM. Mitchell, Ducks Island
badly scalded; Alexander Monteith
Ducks Island, badly scGlded; Thomas
Strong, Muskegon, scalded; Thos. Grow
ley, Chicago, scalded; VIM. CurrAn. ol
Conant, Ducks Island, Ecalded; ]. Le-
Motto, Philadelphia, badly scalded; Johr
sherries, Glasgow, Scotland, badly hurt
ruptured; Alexander Hackett, Ducks
Island, scalded; A. Berdon, scalded; John
Whalen, Akron, on the way to Blooming
ton, back and hands scalded; Henry
Small, Akron, Ohio, scalded; ]. E. Cum
ningham, bAggagemanr leg broken; Jas
O'Neal, engineer OF the passenger train
both legs broken; engineer OF the coal
train, badly bruised; newsboy on the
passenger train bruised; Geo. Rental,
Chicago, badly, and arms scalded; A. @
Hickman, artist, Chicago, badly scalded
on head and hands and brulsedi Jacob
Klose, fatally; Jacob Cordooant, Oshkosh,
Wis, will probably die; Isaac Mills, New
York, slightly scalded; Martin Carleton
Bloomington, Ills, scalded; Albert Adams
Bloomington, scalded; William Richard
son, Chicago, scaIded; L. A. Hamltn
Dwight, Ills, slightly scalded; John O
Keeie, Akron, o.; James T. Doyle, seal
ded; John Spears, Chicago, scalded; M
St. John, Chicago, scalded.
The trains did, not catch fire, Rs was
reported this morning, and all the passen
gers killed or injured were In the second
class car, which was also used As smok-
ing car, and with the exception Of the
Gremen, engineers, and the train men, the
casualties were all caused by steam
None Of the regular passenger coaches Of
sleepers were thrown from the track, OF
in any way injured, and no onein any o.
them was injured.
The following account Of the accident
is from the statement ol.the officers Of tht
road:
The regular passenger train from St
Louis left here at Or. NJ, and consisted
Of baggage car, an express car, anC
three day coaches, the head one a second
class or smoking car, and . sleOpers. A
1920 r. NJ, when three miles north o.
Lemont and about twenty-five mile
south orthis city, at . curve In the road
suddenly appeared coal train OF thirty
five cars, running at the rate Of about 20
miles an hour. The passenger train wal
running at the rate Of probably 80 miles
an hour, Snd neither Of the engineers saw
the other engine until It wGs too late Il
reverse, fact accounted for by q CurV'
In the road and partly by the dense fog
The two came together with fearful force
Being on the curve, however, each en-
CINE Jumped the track and passed eact
other, that attached to the coal trail
striking the baggage car q few feet iron
the end, breaking the coupling be
tween 1t and the smoking car, whicl
tho engine struck square In the end, AM
with such force % to throw The iorWArt
end in the air, 90 that the engine ran un
der 1t, tearing the floor completely on
and hurling the fifty or sixty unfortunate
who were In tho car In struggling mas
10 tho lower end, where there was n
. chance for escape, And now ensued
scene Of horror which cannot adequAtel
be described. Thesmoke stack and dom