The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18
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Tint Number OF Lives Lost In . Railway
Accident ON the Santa Fe Road Near
ey0Iiet-Eiye Persons Injured.


Accident on the Santa Fe Road Near
JoIiet-Fiye Persons Injured.
CHICAGO, April 1l.-Tne California ex-
press on the Atchison. Topeka 4 Santa Fe
due in this city at a m. stopped for coal
and Wnter before dawn yesterday morning
at Lorenzo, a station seventy miles west Of
Chicago and near the Kankakee river cross.
Ing. just as it was getting under way a
heavy freight train crashed into the
rear OF the express. The rear.
most OF the passenger coaches, pri-
vate car In which were Mr.. John +. Hartt
and party, Of Brookline. Mass, was COM
pletely telescoped. and piled atop the
wreck were the ruins of three or four
freight cars The escaping steam and boil
ing water from the boiler of the locomotive
increased the casualties of the disaster.
The killed were:
Robert w. Hartt, Of Brooklinc. II years old,
q son Of John F. Hartt; Mss Alice Winsiow,
OF Brool.lne; Tony Smith, the colored cook.
Of Los Angeles, Cal: Harry Herring. a colored
ear porter, OF Los Angeles, 0l
The injured are:
John r. Hartt, OF Brookline, Mass; Mrs
John F. Hartt, OF Brookline, Mass; DIR. Henry
w. Lamb, Of Boston, Mass: Frank Converse.
Of Chfihcothe, o., engineer Of the freight
train; Peter L. Palmer, brakeman OF the
freight train.
The region round about Lorenzo Is flat
and morshy. A thick fog oversprcad the
countr, yesterday morning. The freight
train v-as an extra The conductor, Fred
Hughes, was directed to regulate his train
by thu time schedule for the ex-
press Engineer Converse, unable to
see the landmarks for the fog.
allowed his train to run too fast. Brake
man Palmer, who was in the engineers
cab at the time of the accident, said 1t was
SO foggy that 1t was impossible to see more
than few feet ahead, and the first thing
they knew the passenger train was just
ahead of them. At the companys offices in
this city the responsibility for the accident
is laid on Engineer Converse.
The injured, all Of them shockingly scalded,
are in Mercy Hospital Mr.. Hartt's legs,
right arm and face are badly scalded. Mrs
Hartt's injuries are almost identical Both
DR.. Lamb and Brakeman Palmer are griev-
ously burned on the face and hands. En-
gineer Converse was SO slightly scalded
that he was able to go to his home
in Chillicothe, q. DR. Winfield s. Hall,
of the hospital staff. says that in
the cases OF Mr.. and Mrs. Hartt there ia
congestion of the internal organs, and he
fears pneumonia-no uncommon sequence
| VI SCSsIc sCS1u6 bcC H. L. u.
Ransom, at the head of the Santa Fe mcdi-
cal department, thinks the recovery of both
patients assured. Mr. Hartt, who is halt
delirious with pain, but vaguely realizes
the death of his son, who was to have en-
tered Harvard next September. Mrs.. Hartt
had not yet been told
Mr.. Hartt, a retired boot and shoe mer-
chant, is director of the Chicago, Kansas 4
| Western railroad, a part of the Santa Fe
system. His wife is sister of Albert w.
| Nickerson, the millionaire railroad man Of
| Boston. The Nickerson family is one of
the best known in Boston, and this
accident will bring grief to many
q house ehold Miss Alice Winslow. the niece
of Mrs. Hartt, was bright, lovable girl OF
% years. She was engaged to be married
to DIR. Lamb, who is medical examiner of
the Santa Fe Her death is one of the
saddest incidents of the wreck When
DR.. Lamb was being carried from tho
wreck he saw her dead body by
the light of lantern. 20 God, it's Allie!''
he screamed, and tainted He lies at Mercy
Hospital, moaning pitfully. Mr.. Hartt's
party left Bro0xline two months ago. and,
after a trip Though California We're home
ward bound
The total damage to the property Of the
4 railroad was s.bOut Sl5,OpV.