The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-25
RUN DOWN BY A FREIGHT
FIVE KILLED AND SEVERAL HURT
AT CHICAGO.

A Suburban Passenger Coach Left
Standing at a Station With Sixty
Passengers in 1.-THE Gar Struck by
a Freight Train The Engineer
Criminally Careless-He Runs Away.
CHICAGO, Sept. PA disaster to a su-
burban passenger train occurred tonight in
the southern outskirts of this city A Chi
cago, Rock Island and Pacific train which
left the main depot at 5:35 o'clock this
afternoon for Blue Island was crashed into
by freight train at the Lake Shore and
Panhandle crossings near EIghty-sev enth
street., Englewood. The passenger train
was at a standstill. One coach was
projecting over the CROSSING Int0 this
coach, containing about sixty persons,
plunged the freight train. The wreck of
the passenger coach was instant and COM
plete. When thorough search had been
completed it was found that three ladies and
two gentlemen had been killed outright and
third man was in dying coalition.
Three other persons were seriously injured.
The latter unfortunates were carefully con-
veyed to their homes near at hand, while
the dying man was taksa to the institute of
the Sisters Of Merry. Five of the dead
were conveyed to the Englewood morgue.
TIE KILLED,
The list of the killed is:
Mrs. KELLY.
j. MC\IEsEY.
Fred HUEBNER.
Mrs. BROWN.
An unknown woman.
All these we're Of Washington Heights.
Those most seriously injured are:
Gus Mulcahey, Seventy-sixth and Wal
lace streets, fatally; Miss A. K Steele,
Anton Shuberg and Parker Harden, Of
Washington Heights
The others hurt sustained but slight in
juries.
A MOMENT OF HORROR.
The 6:1S o'clock suburban train on the
Rock Island road daily leaves at this point
a Washington flights coach, which a mo-
ment later is caught up by dummy engine
and hauled over the main line to Washing
ton Hights. This evening this car was left
at the point as usual, when moment later
the passengers were Mortified to see in their
rear aad bearing down on them at the rate
or twelve miles an hour a heavy freight
train of the same road. There was no
time for flight. The engineer had reversed
his engine, but the effect was hardly per-
ceptible, and with almost undiminished
speed the huge 9 gine, propelled by the
heavy train, ploughed into the passenger
hidden in the wreck The engineer having
failed to shut off the steam the box was
blown out by the shock and death dealing
vapor hissed forth ceaselessly for nearly al
hour.
ALL DIED BY SCALDING.
Strange to say not asperson was killed by
the force OF the shock, eve y life lost being
solely attributed TO the scaldipg steam that
enveloped the coach. The dead as they
were taken out were found to be literally
roasted. Flesh dropped from cir hands
and limbs, and glaring eyes told the horror
of the experience that had welcomed them
at the threshold of death. The
wreck appears to have been en-.
tirely due to the almost criminal
carelessness of Engineer Seth Twombley
son of the master mechanic of the road
The passenger train was running on time
the signals were out at Sephamere, and
yet the freight train, regardless OF
time or signals, plunged into
the passenger coach while running
at twelve miles an hour, and within city
limits. The engineer reversed, but not
until within a few rods of the passenger
cars, and entirely too late to be of any
avail. Both the engineer and fireman
leaped for their lives and escapsd uninjured
! Twombiey at once took fight and has not
been heard from 1t is stated that he was
addicted to drink