St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-11
They COULDN'T PASS,
Two Trains Try 1t On a Single
Track Near Joliet,
! Ill.
Four Persons Killed and a
Large Number Badly
Wounded.
Milwaukee Fipemen Over
come by Smoke and Dead
ly Gases.
The Chief Overcome Twice
and Dragged From the
| Building.

CHICAGO. April 1O.-Four persons
were killed and five badly injured by
I'm accident that occurred on the Chi
eago, Santa Fe & California road about
4 O'Clock this morning. The regular
day express, No. 2, which left Kansas
City at $50 yesterday morning, was
composed. of one baggage car, and two
parlor cars and the directors car of
the railroad. carrying family named
Hart from Boston. The train reached
Coal City, slxty-three miles from Chi
cagO, promptly on time. Three miles
east, near village called Lorenzo, it
was run into from the rear by a special
freight, which, according to all ac-
counts, was running wild. No warn
ing was given to the unfortunate occu-
pants OF the private car, and the collis-
ion occurred so suddenly and with such
force that it was completely wrecked,
the locomotive telescoping it
NEARLY TO THE CENTER.
The section car, however, escaped
with wrecked platform and steps. The
dead and Injured were at once extri-
Gated from the mass Of debris and the
injured brought to Chicago in the Sleep
ing car of the train, which arrived at
$3.50 O'Clock. two and half hours late.
Inc usual retlcence was manifested by
the railroad officers, the employees
being warned to give no information
to the press or private individuals.
A dispatch had been sent to the
police department for ambulances, and
dozen were in waiting when the train
arrived. Only four, however, were
needed, and in these Mr.. and Mrs. Hart
and j. l.. Hart, of Brookling, Mass.
Henry W. Lamb, of the same place, and
p. l.. Palmer, of Chicago. brakeman,
were conveyed, the three former to
Mercy and the latter to st. Luke's hos
pital. All three were placed upon
stretcherS and covered with blankets
before being removed from the car, and
Conductor KretZ, when asked regarding
their injuries, replied that the were
''onlY badly scalded."
THE REMAINS
of the killed were left at Lorenzo.
Hart's son, aged fifteen. was dead
niece, on her way to New York to he
married, was also killed. The porter
and cook were killed-both colored,
The engineer and fireman of the freight
will die. They were taken to Chicago.
Only four were killed, and the bodies
are now in the depot at Lo-
renZO. The stock shippers in
the cabOose of the freight
train were uninjured, and were the
chief workers in rescuing the victims.
They were S. G. Fairbrother and B. A.
Fleashman, both of Wyaconda, Mo.
The wreck looks bad. The engine of
freight is tWo-thirds under the special
car. The car is completely shattered
A large gang is now at work. The first
three cars of the freight train were de-
rallied. They contained cattle and hogs.
A few cattle were injured, and are
now pasturing In an adjoining field.
A car of hogs upset, and eighteen
or twenty were cut to pieces, and the
mangled remains are there now. Frag-
ments of furniture were scattered
about. also clothing and broken glass.
One long lock of woman's hair was
picked up near the wreck. Two freight
cars are now there, bottom side up and
smashed into splinters. The odor from
the hogs cut to pieces lie sickening, and
The list of the killed and wounded is as
| follows:
ROBERT HENRY HART, Boston.
MISS ALICE WINSLOW, Brookline.
'HARRY,'' the porter, Los Angeles.
THOMAS SMITH, cook, Los Angeles.
WOUNDED.
j. F. HART AND WIFE, Boston, probably
| fatally.
HENRY W. LAME, Brookline, fatally.
P. T. PALMER, brakeman, Chicago, seriously
| scalded and bruised.
| The engineer and fireman of the
| freight are badly wounded and scalded,
At the Mercy hospital tonight, the in
jured persons are resting as comfortably
| as the best medical aid and the tender
| care of the sisters of charity nurses can
make them. DR.. Hall, who is the house
surgeon, is assisted by DR.. Andrews and
twophysicians furnished by the Santa
| Fe Railroad.company. DR.. Hall says that
Mr.. and Mrs. Hart's injuries are very
| similar in point of the scalds on the
feet and limbs. one arm broken and the
| foreheads of each being cut. but Mrs.
| Hart has besides these injuries, very
large scald on the abdomen. The
brakeman is badly scalded about the
| face and hands. but DR.. Hall says his
injuries are not necessarily fatal.