, 1889-04-11
SMASH-UP
On the Santa Fe Road, Near
Chicago.
Terrible Result of a Train
Dispatcher's Carelessness.
Invasion of the Promised Lands
of Oklahoma.
Lord Lonsdale Disguised With
the Arctic Regions.
Terrible Railway Accident.

CHICA 10, April IO.-The regular east
bound passenger train was Just leaving
Lorenzo station, fifty miles from Chicago.
at $50 a. III when a terrible accident oc.
Cured. Attached to the rear ofthe train
wa the private ear of Manager McCool.
of the California Central, occupied by j.
f. Hart, mayor OF Brookline, Mass, and
a director of the California Central rail
road, his wife, his son Henry Robert
Hart, his niece Miss Winslow, J. l..
Lamb, a porter only known as Harry and
a cook named Thomas Smith. Just as
the train was pulling out of the station
an extra fast stock train following ran into
the rear of the passenger at a high speed
demolishing the private car and exploding
the boiler of the freight engine. Large
quantities of steam escaped scalding
those who escaped from the effects of the
crash. So soon as the wreck could be
cleared 10 allow the removal of the dead
and wounded, they were found to be as
follows:
KIlled-Miss Wins.ow, Henry Hart,
the porter and cook.
Scalded-J. II. Hart and wife, j. D.
PIlmer, brakeman, j. l.. Lamb and an
other engineer. The fireman of the freight
train jumped and escaped injury. None
of the cars except hat OF Hart are seri
ously damaged. The dead and wounded
we're put upon the train and brought to
this city. The bodies of the dead were
taken to an undertaking establishment
and the wounded were conveyed to Mercy
hospital. 1t cannot be learned that
Manager Morrow was on board The
party in his car were friends who had
been visiting him at Los Angeles. The
passenger train was running on time, ard
the extra freight, through some i%nexcus-
able error of the train dispatcher, was al
lowed to follow. At Lorenzo the grade is
very steep and the engineer of the ex-
ira saw the train was unmanagesble. just
as he perceived the lamps of the passen-
ger. He whistled for brakes, but too late.
His engine crashed into the private car
driving it up on the steps of the Pullman
car ahead.
In addition to being scaldcd, j. w.
Hart had both legs broken, Henry W.
Lamb, also in the private car, was scalded
about the face and body, Palmer, freight
| brakeman. was hurled over the freight
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with a scalded face and terribly burned
hands. John Bynder, engineer of the
passenger was severly hurt. The fireman
on the passenger train said:
1--WE are not to be blamed for the a..
cident. 1t was pitch dark and densely
foggy when the crash came. We were
running on time but the freight was extra.
The freight engine ran right through the
last coach, then the boiler bursted. The
cries of the dying and injured were
simply awful. Boiling water had been
thrown over them and their flesh was
terribly scalded."
BosToN, April lO.-John f. Hart and
party who were in the accident on the
Santa Fe road. near Chicago this morn
ing left here Feb. 7 on an extension to
the southwest and were returning home.
Hart was formerly in the boot and shoe
business, but had retired from actiS &c bust
ness. w. Lamb, who was injured, is q
general officer on the Atchison road.