New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-11
ATRAIN WRECKED IN A FOG
FOUR PERSONS IN A PRIVATE CAR KILLED.
pISAsTRoUs CONCLUSION OF A TRIP FOR PLEAS
uRE~THB OTHER TRAVELLERS IN THE
CAR BADLY SCALDED.
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Chicago, April 1O.-On the Santa Fe and Cali
tornia Railway, near Joliet this morning private
var containing ]. L. Hartt of BrooRliGe Mass.
md his party was wrecked by freight train
,obert H. Hartt and Miss Alice Winsow, Thomas
Smith. the cook, and Harry" the porter were
killed. Mr.. and Mrs. Hartt and Henry W. Lamb
we're frightfully scalded and 10 IS feared cannot
recover. Miss Winslow was engaged to be married
10 Mr.. Lamb The train bearing the dead ana
injured arrived here at $3.50 q. m.
L. L. Palmer, the brakeman, who was rldlng
n the cab of the freight engine Mt the time OF
The accident was a wretched looking beng as he
walked exctcdly up and down the aisle Of the
paror-car in the depot, waiting for the patrol
wagon TO take him TO the County Hospital lie
held up his hands about the level OF his shoulders
to ease the pain as much as possible; but, brave
as he tried to be, he could not keep back an oc-
casional groan of Fhll. lie hNeS at brighton
Park. Said he:
This was an extra freight, and Fred Hughes
n No. Il Fowler.st, was the conductor. The
lfair happened between and o'clock this morn.
Ing. l don't know exactly wheu 1t was 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 tram right before us, and we
could not stop in time to save ourselves. was on
the engine at the time We went plHmb through
the last sleeping car, smashing everything to
flinders The sides of the car boxed in the gang
way Of the engine. The top Of the cab fell over
backward, and there was caught like rat in a
trap. How got out could hardly tell. l know
| crawlcd through a mighty small place and the
steam scalding away. 1t was mighty hard
The railway people say: Train No. ., the Cali
fOrns express, was to leave Lorenzo at 4 :23 q.
NJ 1t was exactly on time and was just pulling
out when the freight train telcsooped the sleep
ing car. No blame is attached to the passenger
train employees, and whether the fault is that of
the freight engineer, conductor or the train dis.
patcher we can't say just yet We don't know how
it was that the freight train came TO be running
ahead Of time. when every man the road knew,
or ought to have known, that No 2 by time card
was due at Lorenzo at 4 :23 o'clock The fog must
have misled the engineer
NJ. Hart is a director Of the California Central
Railway, and he and his party were on tnclr
way home from a pleasure trip TO the Pacific
Coast.
Orders were issued at Mercy Hospital 10 allow
no reporters TO see anv of the injured, and TO
all inquiries the stereotyped reply was given
We can let no one them, as the physicians
are dressing their wounds, and will not talk
Later in the, day Dr.. Hail. resident physician
at the hospital, who, with DR.. Andrews and two
surgeons from tie railroad, dressed the wounds,
said 10 a reporter: " Mr. and Mrs. Hartt'S wounds
ere identical Roth are suffering from superficial
scalds ON both feet legs, one arm and the fore
head. Mrs. Hart has also large scald on her
abdomen. Mr.. Lamb has both hands and his
face scaldcd. So also has the brakeman Scalds
are divided in medical phrase into four degrees
OF intensity, the lighteSt being No. /. The scalds
of these are No. ,. To recover from them from
four to ten weeks required, and these cases.
owing to The large surface scalded, pneumonia may
set in. The patients are now resting easier
The wrecked coach the private car of Cen
eral Manager McCoOl Of the California Central
Railroad, western branch of the Santa F6- The
party had been spending few weeks with Mr.
McCoos family at Los Angeles.