The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-10-04
IN THE COACH.
TERRIBLE COLLISION IN "A CHI.
CAGO SUBURB.

A Passenger Coach Run Into by q Fretsht
Five Killed aud Thirteen Terribly In..
~tured-1hcy Victims Scalded hy Escaping
Steam-A Horrible Sight.
Chicago telegram.l
Through the wanton carelessnes OF En-.
gineer Seth Twombiey five lives were sac.
riiiced in u wreck Oil the Rock Island
Railway, near Auburn Junction, q SUBJ
urban station of Chicago. The passen-
ger train lad just passed the junction
station and was stopped by o train cross.
ing on an intersecting line, when Twom-
bley's freight cnme rushing up from be-
hind md sent its engine crashing into the
passenger. Before it struck the passen-
ger tram Twombley and his fireman
jumped oil and made their escape.
All of the killed save one we're from
Washington Heights. The following 10
o list of those Instantly killed:
Mrs. Ward, Washington Heights; Mrs.sDaR-,
tain Brown, Washington Heights Miss SadsS
kelly, Washington Heights; Fred huebnefs
Washington Heights; James w. Mckenzie. Au.
burn Junction.
The seriously wounded are:
Mrs. A. Il. Steele. Washington Heights, scaid-
jurel, probably fatal; Gus Mulcaley, Seventy
sixth and Wallace streets. scalded about the
faes md arms nnd two ribs ,f frae a' !. * = aiso IN
ington Heights. daughter OF Mrs. Captain
Brown, who was killed, scaldel all over her body
and l,adly bruised about the heal Parker Hard.
.ng and sister, Tracy avenue, scalded aud
'ruised about The head and face; Anton shu:
berg. Washington Heights. terribly scalded
Others injured are: Edward Smith, Jr., Daniel
Lawrence, g. Klein, John Iierney: Michae!
Washington Heights.
The suburban passenger train which
was wrecked left the Rock Island depot
at Van Buren, gtreet ut $3.50 o'clock, with
Conductor Z. S. Ellis i'll charge and En-.
gineer Parker at the throttle. At G:l9
o'clock the ira IL had passed Auburn juno
tion station md had discharged nearly all
its passengers. The passenger train was
made up of an engine and seven coaches.
just beyond Auburn Junction, at Eighty
seventh street, the rear car is u%ncoupled
to be sent on to Washington Heights.
while the Onward cars continue on the
branch south to Morgan Park and
stopped to let an incoming train
from the Washington Heights branch
pass and to uncouple the rear car
when freight train No. 81 crashed into the
rear. The passengers i'll the forward cars
were badly frightened, but did not real.
ize the extent of the accident for some
time They heard the crash and felt .
slight shock, but did not take in the situ..
alton until the smoke and Kissing steam
attracted their attention. The greatest
confusion followed, and nearly every one
rushed from the train. The locomotive
had forced its way clear inside of the rear
coach, the kissing stenm and the
shrieks of the wounded aud imprisoned
passengers increased the horror.
There were between twenty five and
thirty people on board the fated car, and
that any of them escaped alive is q mira
Gle. The passengers from the other cars
at once lent q helping hand, and many
We're saved who but for timely assistance'
must have succumbed to the scalding
steam and choking smoke from the en-
CINE.
By some at present inexplicable reason,
the freight was ten minutes ahead Of
time, and presumably to this is the sad
accident alone due. The track is q straight
one at this point, aud Engineer Twom-
bley must have seen the passenger ahead
some time before he struck it. He saws
that he reversed his engine Immediately
and whistled down brakes, but the veloc-
ity of the train proved too great to be
halted i'll time to avoid the smash-up.
According to some of the spectators the
freight was running Mt the rate of twenty
miles an hour. 1t was a heavily loaded
train, and from tile fact thai the engine
crashed almost its whole length into the
chr without seriously injuring the sides,
it must have been running ut n high rate
of speed.
The bodies of the dead were in a horri-
bic condition., and in some instances we're
literally cooked. Miss Kelly was SO
badly scalded that it was almost impossi.
BILE to distinguish her TEXTURES at ali.