St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-25
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and Ten Injured by Grim
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in Boston for an Old
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Prison.
EmbeZZler Quale Brought
Back From Saxony by a
Badger Detective.

CHICAGO, Sept. 24.-Five Innocent
lives paid the penalty of the wanton
careleSsness of a railway engineer at
the corner of Vnicennes avenue and
Eighty-seventh street this evening.
The 6:1S suburban train on the Rock
Island road daily leaves at this point
the Washington Heights coach, which
moment later is caught up by the
dummy engine and hauled over the
main line to Washington Heights.
This evening the car was
left at this point as usual,
when a moment later the passengers
were Mortified to see in the rear of them
and bearing down on them at the rate
of twelve niles an hour a heavy freight
train of the same road. There was no
time for fight. The engineer had re-
versed his engine, but the effect
was hardly perceptible, and with al
most undiminished speed the huge en-
CINE, propelled by the heavy train,
plOWed into the passenger coach until
the locomotive was entirely hidden Ill
the wreck.
WILD sHRIEKs AND GROANS
announced the horror of the disaster,
and as the white steam formed in a
thick cloud around the scene. the terri
fed spectators realized that the ILL
fated passengers on the Washington
Heights coach were being cooked alive.
Willing hands lent all assistance that
human efforts could render, but the en-
gineer having failed to shut OFF the
steam. the steam box was blown out by
the shock and the death-dealing yapor
Missed forth ceaSeleSsly for nearly
an hour. Strange to say, not person
was killed by the force of the shock.
eyerv life that was lost being solely at
tributed to the scalding steam that en-
yelOped the coach. The dead, as they
were taken out. were found to be liter
ally roasted. The flesh dropped from
the hands and limbs, and the glaring
eyes told the horror of the experience
that had welcomed them at the threshold
of death. The following is list of the
killed and injured: .ss~- .7'-'a-
KILLED.
MISS SADIE KELLY, an employe OF the
Rock Island company.
MRS BROWN. of Washington Heights.
FRED HUEDNER. of Washington Heights.
JAY MCKENZIE, of Washington Heights.
A woman yet unidentified.
WOUNDED. ~
Gus MULGAHEY, q boy Of Auburn park,
badly scalded and will die.
EDWARD SMITH DR., badly scalded from
waist down.
Mr. O'CoSNoR. badly scalded
DANIEL LAWRENCE. lawyer, badly scalded.
ANTON ScHoRER, badly sealded, taken to
county hospital.
JACOB KUEN, badly scalded.
Mr. WHEELER, badly cut.
GoTTLIEB KLEIN. scalded.
PARKER HERADAs, cut while rescuing his
sister.
MRS. STEELE, slightly injured.
The wreck appears to have been en-
tirely due to the almost criminal care
lessness of Engineer Seth Twombley,
son of the master mechanic of the road.
The passenger train was running on
time, the signals were out at the sema
phore; and yet the freight train, regard
less of time and signals, plunged into
the passenger coach at the rate of twelve
miles an hOur-all within the city linz
its. The engineer reversed, but not
until within few rods of the paSsen-
ger coach, and entirely too late to be of
any avail. Both engineer and fireman
leaped for their lives, and escaped un
injured. TwOmbley at once took to
flight, and has not been heard from. 1t
is Stated that he was addicted to drink,
and the presumption is that he was in
toxicated at the time of the disaster.
The evidence given at the inquest to-
tlay tends to show clearly that the re-
cent landslide could have been guarded
against by properly repairing the cracks
in the cliff some years ago. A tremend-
Gus boulder, weighing several tons. was
chained to the mountain side with an
inch chain and an inch board covering
to hide other defects but danger from
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