The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-04-16
A PRIVATE CAR WRECKED.
Fatal Collision on the Chicago.
Santa Fe e. California.
A Freight Train Crashes into the
Rear of a Passenger Train
-Four Persons
Killed.

Chicago, April 10.-Au east bound pas
senger train on the Chicago, Santa Fe &
California railway was run into from be-
hind at 4:30 yesterday morning at Lorenzo
town, fifty miles from Chicago, by freight
train.
Four persons were killed outright and
several were badly injured.
Attached to the rear of the passenger
train was the private car of General Nam
ager McCool, of the California Central
railroad, branch of the Santa Fe. The
party in the car consisted of j. F. Hart, of
Brookline. Mass, and a director OF the
California Central Railroad, his wife, his
son Henry Robert Hart, his niece, Miss
Alice WinslOw, Henry w. Lamb, porter
known only as Harry, and Thomas Smith,
cook.
AS the train was pulling out of the sta
ton an extra stock train following rsr in
tc it, demolishing the private car The To-
corotive's boiler burst, scalding those who
escaped from the crash.
THE DEAD AND INJURED.
The dead are Miss Wiuslow, Henry
Hart, the porter anu the cook.
j. X. Harris legs were both broken, and
both he and his wife were badly scalded.
Henry w. Lamb was scalded about the
face and body.
E. L. Palmer, freight brakeman, was
hurlei over the freight engine into the
mass of debris and escaped with a bad
scaId on his face and both hands terribly
burned.
John Bydner, engineer of the passenger
train was severely hurt
The engineer and fireman of the freight
train Jumped and escaped injury.
None of cars except the private car we're
seriously damaged, and none of the pas
seDgers In the other coaches were hurt.
The dead and wounded were put upon
the train and brought 10 this city,
How THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED.
The passenger train was running on time
and the extra freight, through some mex
cusable error Of the train dispatcher, was
allowed To 70 low.
Al Loienznt"wu, the grade Is very steep
and IA engineer OF The extra saw that his
train " : unmrnasesb'- just rs he perceiy-
d the tail lamp OF the passenger. lie
v histeG for brakes. Ii was TOO late. Ills
engine crashed lat" t',- riv9lr car, driving
al upon The steps OF the Pullman car Santa
Ar.
Tn ir.;c'.t engine ran right Trough The
lasl zach md then the bOi er burst The
erie II Sc injured were awiul. the boil
ing t,r Lad been thrown over 'hria, and
their .'sn ~ a. terribly scaided.
Tn parry occupying ID. private car had
been si'e Ini e, "a w wc-Er with Mr.. Nc
Coui's iaiui'E 1T LIS Arg- 6 and we're To-
turning none.
Il i stated by ore Of .he tTaiumen that a
nnmb,r of wOand-d persons were Left at
Lorenz.Own.
THE FREIGHT TRAIN LOST IN THE FOG.
E. l.. Palmer, brakeman, who was riding
In the C. b Of the freight engine and was
fearful,y scaided, tells the following
story:
tnrS was an extra freight, auI Fred
Hughes WAS the conductor. IL was very
ahead. We got lost In the fog, j guess.
At any rate, before we knew what we were
about there was another train right before
US, and we couldn't stop to save ourselves.
We went plumb through the private car,
eve ything to flinders. The sides
OF the car boxed in the gsngway of the en-
CINE. the top Of the cab fell over backwards,
and there | was like rat in trap. How
got out could hardly tell. | know
crawled through a mighty small place, and |
the steam scalding away.
III W. Lamb is the medical officer of the |
road.
Miss Winslow was the fiancee of Mr. |
Lamb.