The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-11
ing the Union. and keeping the trust COM
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FATAL REAR COLLISION.
A Freight Runs Into the Rear of a Passenger
Train, Killing Four Persons

CHICAGO, April 1O.-A fatal accident oc-
cured on the Chicago. Santa Fe & Cali
fornia railroad. near Joliet, this morning.
The regular east-bound train wasjust leav-
ing Lorenzo station, which is fifty miles
from Chicago, at 4:30 o'clock. Attached to
the rear of the train was the private car of
Mr.. j. f. Hart, Mayor of Brookline, Mass,
and director of the California Central
railroad. The party in the car consisted of
Mr.. Hart and his wife; his son, Henry
Robert Hart; his niece, Mrs. Winslow, a
porter known only as Harry" and cook.
just as the train was pulling out of the
station an extra stock train, following, ran
into the rear of the passenger train, at
good speed. demolishing the private car
and damaging the freight engine so that
large quantities of steam escaped, scalding
those who had escaped from the effects of
the crash. The killed are:
HENRY r. HART
MISS ALICE WINSLOW.
THOMAS SMITH. cook.
HARRY, the porter.
The injured at Mercy Hospital are: John
l.. Hart and wife, Henry w. Lamb and T..
l.. Palmer. Their injuries are nearly ident-
lcal, consisting of severe scalds on the hands,
faces and legs. As far as ascertainable, in
their present condition. no bones were
broken. The surgeon in attendance greatly
fears that pneumonia will supervene, in
which case their chances of recovery will
be very poor If this complication can be
avoided, they believe that the patients will
survive. Miss Winslow was the fance of
Mr. Lamb.
The passenger train was running on time,
and the extra freight, through some mex
cusable error of the train-dispatcher, was
grade is very steep. and the en-
gineer of the extra saw that his
train was unmanageable Just as he
perceived the tail lamps of the passenger
train. He whistled for brakes, but it was
too late. His engine crashed into the pri-
vate car, driving it up on the steps of the
Pullman car Santa Anna. In addition to
being scalded Mr.. j. F.sHart had both legs
broken. Henry w. Lamb, also in the private
car, was scalded about the face and body.
over the freight engine into the mass of
debris and escaped with bad scald on his
face and both hands being terribly burned
John Rynder, engineer of the passenger
train was severely hurt. The fireman on
the passenger engine said:
I'VE are not to be blamed for the acci-
dent 1t was pitch dark when the crash
came. We were running on time and the
freight was an extra. When she struck us
every coupling on our train was broken.
gine was broken. The freight engine ran
right through the last coach and then the
boiler burst. The cries of the dying and
injured were simply awful. The boiling
water had been thrown over them, and their
flesh was terribly scalded. The brakeman
and fireman of the freight must have
jumped, because they were not fatally in
jured."
Another account says, however, that the
engineer of the freight train was crushed
to pulp against the boiler head. 1t is very
difficult to get accurate and reliable infor-
nation about the accident, as the railroad
people are, as usual. very reticent. The
wrecked coach was the private car of Gen.
eral Manager McCool. of tie California
Central railway, a western branch of the
Mr.. McCoops friends from Massachusetts.
who had been spending a few weeks with
his family at Los Angeles, and were return
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