Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-11
FRIGHTFUL COLLISION.
Manager McCOOl's Car Made
Into MatchWOOd.
FOUR PERSONS GET KILLED.
Five Others Severely Scalded-Crim"
inal Negligence of q Train
Dispatcher.
Associated Press DISPATCHES to the HnEALp. l.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.l
CHICAGO, April 10.-By collision be-
tween passenger and freight train on
the Chicago, Santa Fe and California
road near Joliet this morning.
DETAILS OF THE ACCIDENT.
CHICAGO, April 1O.-Following is an
other account of the accident on the Chi
cago, Santa Fe and California Railroad
this morning: The regular eastbound
train was just leaving Lorenzo Station,
fifty miles from Chicago, at 4 80, when
the accident occurred. Attached to the
rear of the train was the private car of
Manager McCool, of the California Cen
trail, occupied by J. F. Hart, Mayor of
Broohline, Mass, and a director of the
California Central Railroad, his wife, his
son, Henry Robert Hart, his niece, Miss
Winslow, ]. L. Lamb, the porter, known
only as Harry, and the cook, named
Thomas Smith. Just as the train
was pulling out of the station
an extra fast stock train follow
ing ran into the rear of the passenger
train at high speed, demolishiug the pri-
vate car, and exploding the boiler of the
freight engine. Large quantities of steam
escaped, scalding those who escaped
from the effects of the crash. AS soon
as the wreck could be cleared to allow
of the removal of the dead and wounded,
they were found to be rs follows;
Killed-Miss Winslow, Henry Hart,
the POI ter and the cook, the two latter
residents of Los Angeles.
Scalded-J. F. Hart and wife, J. d.
Palmer, brakeman, j. L. Lamb and
another.
The engineer and fireman of the freight
train jumped and escaped injury. None
of the cars except that of Hart's was Be-
riously damaged. The dead and wounded
were put upon the train and brought to
this city.
VARIOUS RUMoRs.
The bodies OF the dead were taken to
an undertaking establishment. The
wounded were conveyed to Mercy Hos
pital. 1t cannot be learned that Manager
McCool was on board. The party in his
car were friends who had been visiting
him at Los Angeles. 1t is difficult to get
at the exact facts. One account says the
freight engineer was crushed to Jelly
against the boiler head; another that he
escaped unhurt. 1t is also said several
wounded are in the other cars of the
train left at the scene Of the accident.
This is not believed to be true, as the
other cars were not badly damaged.
SOME ONE HAD BLUNDERED.
The passenger train was running on
time, and the extra freight, through
some inexcusable error of the train dis
patcher, was allowed to follow. At
Lorenzo the grade is very steep, and the
engineer OF the extra saw the train was
unmanageable just he perceived the
lamps of the passenger. He whistled for
brakes, but too late. His engine crashed
into the private car, driving it up on the
steps of the Pullman car ahead. In adj
both legs broken. Henry w. Lamb,
ABOUT the face and body. Palmer, a
freight brakeman, was hurled over the
freight engine into the mass of debris,
and escaped with scalded face and ter
ribly burned hands. John Bynder,
engineer of the passenger train, was
severely hurt.
NOT TO BE BLAMED.
The fireman on the passenger train
SalQ: we are not 10 De blamed for this,
accident. 1t was pitch dark and densely
foggy when the crash came. We were.
running on time, and the freight was an
extra. The freight engine ran right
through the last car, and then the boiler
burst. The cries of the dying and the
injured were simply awful. Boiling
water had been thrown over them, and
their flesh was scalded."
BosToN, April 10.-John F. Hart and
party, who were in the accident on the
Santa Fe near Chicago this morning, left
here February 9TH, on an excursion to
the South and West, and were returning
home. Hart was formerly in the boot
and shoe business, but had retired from
active business. w. Lamb, who was
injured, is a medical officer of the Atchi-
son railroad.
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