Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-10
A PRIVATE CAR TELESCCPED.
Four Persons Reported Killed and Five
Badly Injured.

CHICAGO. April lo.-Four persons are reported
killed and FIVE badly injured by an accident
that occurred on the Chicago, Santa Fe and
California road, about 4 O'Clock this morning.
The regular day express. No. 2, which len
Kansas City at $50 yesterday morning. was
composed OF ono baggage car and two parlor
cars and the directors car of the road carrying
a family from Boston. the names of which are
gwen al the local Office OF the company as
hardt, OF Brookline. Mass. but who, IL is said
by Others. are the family Of J. W. Reinhsrt. of
Boston. general auditor Of the road The train
reached Coal City, 6S miles from Chicago.
promptly on time. Three miles east. near .
the rear by special freight, which. according
to all accounts.
WAS RUNNING wrrn.
No warning WAS given to the unfortunate
occupants of the private car and the collision
occurred suddenly and with such force that 10
was completely wrecked. the locomotive tele-
scoplng II nearly 90 the center The second
car. however. escaped With wrecked platform
and steps: The dead and injured were at once
eNtricated from the mass of debris and the in
jnred brought to Chicago in the sleeping-caf
OF the train. which arrived at $50 o'clock, two
and-a-half hours late
RETIcENCE OF RAILROAD OFFICIALS
The usual reticence manifested by the
railroad officials, the employees being warned
to give no information 10 the press or private
individuals. 4 dispatch had been sent TO tho
police department for ambulances. and dozen
were IN waiting when the tram arrived. Only
four. however. were needed. and in these MIR.
and Mrs. Hardt and J. l. Hardt of Brookline
Mass. (the names being given by the railroad
oiiicials); Henry W. Lamb. of the same place.
and +. l.. Palmer. of Chicago, brakeman, were
conveyed. the three former to Mercy and the
latter TO St. Luke's hospital
ALL WERE PLACED UPON sTRETcHERs
and covered with blankets before being re-
moved from the car, and Conductor Kretz.
when asked regarding their injuries. replied
that they "were only badly scalded'
A Joliet dispatch claims that seven were
killed and fourteen injured, and that several OF
the directors were in the party. This is denied
at the depot. The remains of the killed were
left at Lorenzo.
THE FIREMAS's STORY.
The fireman of the wrecked passenger train
was seen and finally induced to talk: MY en-
gine is ID. 5Sl, and you can bet We are not 20
be blamed FOR the accident, IL was pitch dark
when the crash came, and We stopped our en-
glne as quick as we could. We were running
on time, but the freight WAS an extra. When
she struck us every coupling on our train was
broken-even the coupling on the tender 10
our engine was broken in two. The freight
engine ran right through the last coach and
and injured were simply awful. The boiling
water had been thrown over them and their
flesh terribly scalded. The brakeman and fire
man of the freight must have jumped, because
they were not fatally injured
Another Account of the Accident
on the Santa Fe SAYS:
No. 2was running on time: the extra freight
was following them. At Lorenzo the grade is
very steep and the engineer of the extra saw
that his train was unmanageable Just as he per-
celved the lamps on the rear of the passenger
train. He whistled for brakes and front brake
man L. l.. Palmer sprang for the brakes It
was too late, and the freight engine crashed
INTO the private car, driving il up on the steps
OF the Pullman car Santa Ana. The fireman OF
the freight engine jumped and escaped, but the
engineer was
CRUSHED INTO MASS OF PULP
against the boiler-head. In the private car was
j. l.. Hart, director of the California Central
railway. He lives at Brookline. Mass. Both
his legs were broken and he was badly scalded.
HIS son and daughter, who accompanied him.
were killed instantly. Henry W. Lamb. also in
the private car, was scalded about the face and
body. Palmer, the freight brakeman. was
thrown over the freight engine into the mass
OF debris, and he escaped with bad scald on
his face and both hands were terribly burned
Ihe tourist car 4O5, just ahead Of the sleeper
NaS hpt anu lue Otner
coaches and baggage car were damaged only
about the draft irons. Engineer John Bypder
was severely bruised by the force of the con-
cussion. The wre, k of the private car was left
at Lorenzo and the remainder of the train came
on 20 Chicago.
WHAT THE BRAKEMAN SAYS.
p. L. Palmer, brakeman. who was riding in
the cab Of the freight engine. and who was fear
fully scalded tells the following story: This was
an extra freight and Fred Hughes was the
conductor. The affair happened between
4 and o'clock this morning.
lt was very foggy and almost impossible
TO see any distance ahead We got lost i'm
the fog, guess. At any rate, before we knew
what We were about. there stood the passenger
train right before us, and We could not stop in
time to save ourselves. was on the engine at the
time, We went plumb through the last sleeper,
smashing everything to flinders. The sides of
the car boxed IN the gangway of the engine,
the top OF the cab fell over backwards. and
there was. like a rat in trap. How / got
out could hardly tell L know crawled
through mighty small place and the steam
scaldlng away. 1t was mighty hard"