The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-10-04
COOKED IN THE COACH.
A TERRIBLE COLLISION IN A CHI
CAGO SUBURB.
A Passenger Coach Run Into by q Freight
Five Killed and Thirteen Terribly In
jursd-The Victims Scalded by Escaping
Steam-A Horrible Sight.

A Passenger Coach Run Into by q Freight
Five Killed and Thirteen Terribly In
jursd-The Victims Scalded by Escaping
Steam-A Horrible Sight.
[Chicago telegram.l
Through the wanton carelessnes Of En-.
gineer Seth T%wombley five lives were sac
rifced in o wreck on the Rock Island
Railway, near Auburn Junction, a sub
urban station Of Chicago. The passen-
ger train had just passed the junction
station and was stopped by q train CROSS
bley's freight zane rushing up from be-
hind and sent it's engine crashing into the
passenger. Before it struck the passen-
ger train Ewombley and his fireman
jumped off and made their escape.
All of the killed save one were from
Washington Heights. Tho following is
q list Of those instantly killed:
Mrs. Ward, Washington Heights Mrs. Cap
tain Brown, Washington Heights Miss Sadie
Washington Heights; James w. Mckenzie, Au-
burn Junction.
The seriously wounded are:
Mrs. A. Z. Steele, Washington Heights, scald-
ed about tho breast and face and internally in
jured, probably fatal; Gus Mulcahey, Seventy
sixth and Wallace streets, scalded about the
face iased an n1a arms ,sa and ndd two ribs ,, fractured G t "a Else M,i in
ington Heights. daughter OF Mrs. Captain
Brown, who was killed, scalded all over her body
and badly bruised about the head Parker Hard
ing and sister. Tracy avenue, scalded and
bruised about the head and face; Anton Shu-
berg. Washington Heights, terribly sealded
Others injured are: Edward Smith, Jr., Daniel
Lawrence, G.. Klein, John Tierney. Michael
Haggerty, Mrs. Wheeler, and Dan O'Connor. of
| Washington Heights.
The suburban passenger train which
was wrecked left the Rock Island depot
NJ Wow R,,ror, ofraat Of S.9O p,o1oo1 with
Conductor G.. S. Ellis in charge and En-
| gineer Parker at the throttle. At 6:l9
o'clock the train had passed Auburn juno
ton station and had discharged nearly all
it's passengers. The passenger train was
| made up of an engine and seven coaches.
just beyond Auburn Junction, at Eighty
seventh street, the rear car is %uncoupled
to be sent on to Washington Heights,
while the forward cars continue on the
branch south to Morgan Park and
Blue Island. The train had
stopped to let an incoming train
from the Washington Heights branch
pass and to %uncouple the rear cor
when freight train No. 81 crashed into the
rear. The passengers in the forward cars
were badly frightened, but did not real
ize the extent of the accident for some
time. They heard the crash and felt a
slight shock, but did not take in the stu
alton until the smoke and kissing steam
attracted their attention. The greatest
confusion followed, and nearly every one
rushed from the train. The locomotive
had forced its way clear inside of the real
coach, and the Kissing steam and the
shrieks of the wounded and imprisoned
passengers increased the horror.
There we're between twenty-five and
thirty people on board the fated car, and
that any of them escaped alive is a mira
Gle. This passengers from the other cars
at once lent a helping hand, and many
we're saved who but for timely assistance
must have succumbed to the scaldine
steam and choking smoke from the en-
CINE.
By some at present inexplicable reason,
the freight was ten minutes ahead OF
time, and presumably to this is the sad
accident alone due. The:track is a straight
one at this point, and Engineer Twom-
bley must have seen the passenger ahead
some time before he struck it. He says
that he reversed his engine Immediately
and whistled down brakes, but the veloc-
ity of the train proved too great to be
halted in time to avoid the smash-up.
According to some of the spectators the
freight was running at the rate of twenty
miles an hour. It was o heavily loaded
train, and from the fact that the engine
crashed almost it's whole length into the
car without seriously injuring the sides,
it must have been running at q high rate
of speed.
The bodies of the dead were in a horri.
BILE condition, and in some instances were
badly scalded that it was almost impossi,
BILE to distinguish her features at all.