The morning news., 1889-04-11
Run DOWN FROM BEHIND
FOUR KILLED IN A SMASH UP
NEAR CHICAGO.

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No Warning of Danger.
| CHICAGO, April 10.-Seven persons are
reported killed and fourteen badly injured
by an accident that occurred on the Chicago,
Santa Fe and California road about
o'clock this morning. The regular day ex-
press No :, which left Kansas City at 80
| O'Clock yesterday morning, was composed
or one baggage car and two parlor cars,
and the road directors car, carrying
family from Boston, whose names are
given at the loc ii Office of the company as
Hart of Brookline, Mass, but who, it is
said by others, are the family of j. w.
| Rlcnard OF Boston, general auditor of the
| road. The train reached Coal City, sixty
three miles from Chicago, promptly on
time. Three miles east, near village called
| Lorenzo, it was run into from the rear by
| special freight, which, according t. all ac-
counts, was running wild.
NO NOTE OF WARNING.
No warning was given to the unfortunate
| occupants of the private car, and the col
lision occurred so suddenly and with such
force that the car was completely wrecked,
and the locomotive telescoped it nearly to
the center. The second car however, es-
capped with wrecked platform and steps
The dead and injured were at once extri-
! Gated. from the mass of debris, and the in
| Jured were brought to Chicago in the
| sleeper of the train which arrived at $50
o'clock, two and a half hours late. The
usual reticence was manifested by the rail
| rJad officials, 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 ar
! rived. Only four, however, were needed,
and in this Mr.. and Mrs. Hardt and j. L.
Hardt of Brookline, Mass. (the names being
| given by the railroad officials, Henry w.
| Lamb of the same place and P l.. Palmer
| of Chicago. a brakeman, were co veyed,
the three former to the Mercy and St.
Luke's hospital. All were placed upon
stretchers and covered with blankets before
being removed from the car, and Conductor
Kretz, when asked regarding their injuries,
replied that they were only badly scalded.
The remains of the killed were left at Lo-
renzo.
JUST LEAVING A STATION.
CHICAGO, April 10, s p. M-Following is
another account of the accident on the
Chicago, Santa Fe and California road this
morning:
The regular east bound train was Just
leaving Lorenzo station, which is fifty miles
from Chicago, at 4:3O o'clock, when the
accident occurred. Attached to the rear of
the train was a private car Of
j. F. Hart, mayor of Brookline,
Mass, and a director of the California
Central road. The party in the car con-
sisted of Mr.. Hart and his wife. his son
Henry Robert Hart, his niece, Miss Wins
low, porter known only as Harry, and the
cook. Just as the train was pulling out of
the station, an extra fast stock train fol-
lowing, ran into the rear of the passenger
train at good speed, demolishing the private
n ha fraiOht
that large quantities of steam escaped,
scalding those who had escaped from the
effects of the crash.
THE DEAD AND INJURED.
AS soon as the wreck could be cleared to
allow of the removal of the dead and
wounded, they were found to be as follows:
Klled-Miss Winslow, Henry Hart, the
porter and the cook.
Scalded--J. F. Hart and his wife.
The engineer and fireman of the freight
train jumped and escaped injury None of
the cars except that of Hart's were seriously
damaged, and none of the passengers in the
other coaches were hurt. 1t is impossible
yet to locate the blame for the disaster.
The dead and wounded were put upon the
train and brought to this city. The bodies
of the dead were taken to an undertaking
establishment, and the wounded were con-
veyed to Mercy hospital.
TRAIN wRECKERs AT WORK.
BLOOMINGTON, ILL. April 10.-At differ
ent times for month past distractions have
been placed on the track of the Chicago,
Santa Fe and California railroad near the
Illinois river. What might have been q
very serious mishap, was but narrowly
averted near Chillicothe. During the past
fortnight distractions have several times
been put on the track between Eureka
and Roanoke Last week a track walker
was put upon this portion of the line, and
Monday night he was found lying uncon-
scious upon the track with a terri bic wound
in the back of his head. He was fortunately
seen by the engineer of a train in time to
stop. He had been assaulted, it was sup
posed, by the gang of villains who were OBJ
structing the track.
A TRAIN DISPATCHER'S ERROR.
The passenger train was running on time,
and the extra freight by some inexcuSable
error of the train dispatcher was allowed to
follow. At Lorenzo the grade is very steep,
and the engineer OF the extra saw that his
train was unmanageable just as he per
ceived the tail lamps ~ the passenger. He
whistled for brake. 1t was too late His
engine crashed into the private car driving
it upon the steps of the Pullman car Santa
Anna.
In addition to being scalded J. L. Hart
had both legs broken. Henry w. Lamden,
who was also in the private car, was scalded
about the face and body.
STORY OF A BRAKEMAN.
p l.. Palmer, a brakeman, who was
riding in the cab of the freight engine, and
who was fearfully scalded. tells the follow
ing story: This was au extra freight, and
Fred Hughes was conductor The affair
happened between and 5 O'Clock this
morning 1t was very foggy, and almost
impossible to see any distance ahead. We
got lost in the fog, / guess. At any
rate, before we knew what we were about,
there stood the passenger train right before
us and we could not stop in time to save
ourselves. ! was on the engine at the time.
We went plumb through the last sleeper,
smashing everything TO flinders. The sides
of the car boxed in the gangway of the en-
gine, the top of the car fell over backwards,
and ere | was like rat in trap. How
got out / could hardly tell. / know |
c. awled through a mighty small place and
the steam scalding away. 1t was mighty
hard"
TRAIN wREcKKRS IN OHIO.
PITTsBURG, April 10.-A Canton (O.)
special says: "Another attempt TO wreck
west bound limited vestibule express on
the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago
abroad, which passed through Canton
about midnight, was made last night near
Louisville, at the same place that the at
tempt to wreck the same train was made
last Tuesday night An empoye Of the
road, who lives IN Iouisville, discovered the
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