Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-11
FOUR LIVES ARE LOST.
DISASTROUS WRECK NEAR LORENZO. ILL.
on TIKI SANTA PB RAILROAD.
A Wild Freight Train in the Fog Runs Into a
Passenger Train and TELESCOPES Private
Oar-The Bol'r Explodss-Sad Incl
dent Of the Disaster.

CHICAGO, April 10.-One of the saddest
Of the innumerable railroad disasters
which have occurred near Chicago took
place early this morning at Lorenzo, ILL.,.
The victims are eight in number, includ-
ing bride that was to be and her be-
trOthed husband. Lorenzo, the scene Of
the horror, is little hamlet ffty-seven
miles Out on the Chicago, Santa Fe & CAL
ifOInia railroad. During a fog an extra
freight train ran into the rear of the regu-
lar No > California passenger train, East
bound, at 4:23 a. "a, smashing to bits a
private coach, letting not single one of
the occupants escape. Four people were
killed and four others seriously injured
The killed are:
HENRY ROBERT HARTT, the 15-year-old
son of ]. L. Hsrtt. of BOSTON, Mass.
Miss ALICE WINsLOw, of BrOOkline,
Mass, niece of J. l.. Hartt, and the fisncee
OF Henry W. Lamb, who was seriously in
iured
HARRY HERRING, colored porter, resi-
dent of Los Angeles, California.
THOs SMITH, cOlOred cook Of LES
Angeles, California.
The seriously injured are: J. L Hartt,
OF Boston, director OF the Chicago, Kansas
and Western railroad, badly burned about
the feei, legs, arms and head. Mrs. J. l..
Hartt, the formers wife, whose IT, iuries are
similar. Henry W. Lamb, of BroOkline,
Mass, seriously scslded about the arms
aud head. P. l.. Palmer, brakeman of the
freight train, q resident of Brighton Park,
ILL.,. seriously scalded.
The train bearing the injured came into
the Dearborn Station, Chicago, at $50
The officials had prepared everything for
their reception. An ambulance and three
police pstrol wagons were at the depot and
as tenderly as possible, bore the -four in
iured persons who were on the tram o the
Mercy Hospital.
The fireman on the passenger train said:
1--WE are not to be blamed for the accident.
It ives pitch dark when the crash came.
We were running on time, but the eight
was IN extra. When she struck us every
coupling on our train was broken. Even
the coupling on the tender TO our engine
was broken in two. The freight engine
ran right thrOught the last coach, and then
the boiler burst. The cries of the dying
and injured was simply awful. The boil
ing water had been thrown over them, and
their flesh terribly scalded. The brake
man and fireman of the freight must have
Jumped, because they were not fatally in
jGred.n
1--WE have not received full report Of
the accident" +" ssid Charles Sweet, Sscre-
tary of the Chicago, Santa Fe and Calitor
MIA Railroad Company, "but 80 fac as NJ
know it was like this: The California
express was due to leave Lorenzo at 4:23
this morning. She was exactly on time
and was Just commencing to move out when
the freight train struck her and telesccped
the sleeping car. No blame is attached to
the passenge. train employees anc whether
the fault is of the fTeght conductor
OF tbs train dispatcher We can't say Just
vet We don't know how it was the
freight train came TO be running ahead OF
time, when every man on the road knew,
OF ought to have known, that No. ,, by
iime card, was due at Lorenzo st 4:23
O'Clock. The extreme fogginess must
have misled the engineer. Two minutes
later and the accident wOrld not have hap
pened, as by thst time the passenger train
would have gotten under way and the
freight could never have caught it.
Boston, April 1O.-Mr. John F. Hart,
who, with his wife. is reported
seriously Injured, and whose son, Robert
W, and his niece, Miss WislOw are re-
ported killed in the accident on the Atchi-
son, California & Santa Fe road, is resi-
of Brookline. Mass Mr.. Hart and party
started February : on an excursion to the
Southwest. and vas retur0ing home. Mr.
Hart was formerly in the boot and shoe
business, but had retired from active busi-
ness. H. W. Lamb, who was injured, ls
the medical officer of the Atchison road.