Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-25
News by leIegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. FIVE LIVES LOST In a FrightfuI Railway Dis-
 aster Near Chicago. MASSACHUSETTS POLITICS. A Lively Night Before the Republican Convention. THE SOLDER TRIAL AT HARTFORD. South American Delegates
 in New York.
THE SOLDER TRIAL AT HARTFORD.
A AFRrGsrFUL DISASTER.


 A Suburban Passenger Train Wrecked
 by a Freight Near ChicagO-Two Men
 and Three Ladies Killed Outright
 Several Others IDjured-The Bodies
 Literally Roasted.
 CHICAGO, Sept. 24.-A frightful disaster to suburban passenger train occurred to- night in the southern outskirts of the city. The Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific train which left the main depot at 5:35 for Blue Island was crashed into by freight train at the Lake Shore and Pan Handle crossings st Eighty-seventh street, Englewood. The pas senger train was at standstill ono coach projecting over the crossing. Into this coach containing about sixty persons plunged the freight train, travelling rapidly at right angles to the Rock Island tracks. The wreck was instantaneous and complete. How many persons were killed and injured 1t was i'm. possible at the moment to learn. The first estimates made during the confusion that followed the collision put the number of deaths at 12 to IA. Half an hour after ward four dead bodies had been taken out of the debris and the number of victims was still a matter of guesswork. Most of the people of the ill-starred coach were, it is known, resi- dents of the suburban towns of Washington Heights and Morgan Park.
 Later. When thorough search had been completed it was found that three ladies and two gentlemen had been killed outright and @ third man was in a dying condition. Six others were seriously injured. The latter six unfortunates were hurriedly conveyed to their homes near at hand, while the dying man was taken to the institute of the Sisters of Mercy. The five dead were conveyed to the Englewood morgue.
 Tho ot of Ei11oI io. Mra Ro1lav Mo Kinzie, Fred Huebner, Mrs. Brown, an un- known woman, all of Washington Heights:
 Those most seriously injured are: Gus Mulcahy, 76th and Wallace streets, fataaly hurt Miss A. K. Steele, Anton Shuberg and Parker Harden of Washington Heights. The others hurt sustained but slight injuries.
 The engineer of the freight train failed to shut off the steam and the steam box was blown out by the shock and the eath-dealing vapor hissed forth ceaselessly for nearly an hour. Strange to say, not person was kill ed by the force of the shock, every life lost being attributable to the soalding steam. The bodies were literally roasted, the feah dropping from the hands and limbs. The wreck appears to have been entirely due to the criminal carelessnsss of Engineer Seth Twombly. The passenger train was running on time, the signals were out at the sema- phores and yet the freight regardless of time or signals plunged into the passenger coach at the rate of twelve miles an hour. The engineer reversed, but not until within few rods of the passenger and entirely too late to be of any avail. Both engineer and fireman leaped for their lives and escaped uninjured. Twombly at once took to flight and has not been heard from. It is stated that he was addicted to drink, and the presumption is that he was intoxi- cated at the time.