Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-02

lessncss Responsible for the Horror
n notwithstanding Scenes at tho Wreck.
n Chicago Dispatch: Through Il
:. carelcssness OF tho train hands of an /
/ linois Central train, who failed In tb
= performance Of thoir duty. two passcr
ger trains camo together Sunday nigh
s at the kedzie avenue crossing OF tn,
Q Chicago, Burlington a. Quincy raIlroa,
tracks. enacting horrible death deal
, ing scene. Fivo persons were killed
two fatally injured. and eleven more O
: loss snrionsly injured. ~.
The killed:
LILY DIENER II years ofage, living n
No. 459 Ashland avenue.
i MARGARET DIENER, IA years OF age
living At Ashland avenue and Twentieth
street.
OTTO SCHOLEFF. 30 years OF age. liyIn,
ut No lG1 Center street
PETER BERGER, - years OF age living Al
tOS Hastings street
| UNKNOWN MAN. about 27 years OF age.
The fatally injured are:
LESA RIswIG, No, lse Orchard street lof,
leg broken and crushed about tho upper
part OF the body.
LOUISE ToERsE 10 years OF age. rcsidence
unknown legs crushed and severe internal
| injuries
F1ED RIswIc, No. ls0 Orchard street. left
leg broken and hand crushed.
MISS BoURK. No. ll6 Burling street. collar
bone and right arm broken.
FRED PFIsTER right hand cut OF
JOHN kRAEMER, left arm broken and An
| gers OF right hand mashed.
! ,ALbERr BURGER, No 5)0 Hastings street,
right foot cut Cff
H. HOFFMAN. No. 20 Mutt street. left leo
broken below the knee
f.. kORN. No. M Fisk stroot. rteIt or,, "a
tnIce rios on the right side broken
ROBERT HOFFMAN, No. 2aO LuflIn stroet
right arm broken at the wrist
FRANK bUnLINT, right hand mashed and
scalp wounds. N
PETER kAHLMAN. right foot mashed
HENRY HIENNMAN, No. as Ogden avonuo
severe cut on the neck and scalp wounds.
he accident occurred at 7:2O O'clock
ana was caused by the Downer's Grove
express on the Chicago, Burlington a
quincy road, crashing into the rear of
an Illinois Central picnic train STANDING
atthe crossing only few feet from tho
Douglas Park station.
At that hour tho Illinois Central train
bearing several hundred merry ch,Idran
VINO were returning from picnic
given by tho German EyanoeIIs
cal Lutheran Orphan ASYLUM at
Addison Park, twenty-eight miles
from the city, became stalled nj
the kcdzie avenue crossing. between
Nineteenth aud Twentieth streets ow.
Ing TO train crossing tho track at
Western avenue n fow blocks further
tainIng eight passenger coaches. Tney
had been warned by the semaphore OF
danger and had como 10 complete
stand-still, when the c. b. & O. Down
er's Grove express came bowling along
at the rate OF thirty miles an hour and,
In full view OF dozens OF horrilied spec-
tators, crashed with terrific force into
the rear car OF the last section OF the
train.
An almost indescrbabc Gene OF hor
ror and misery Immediately followed.
The crash OF The collision was heard
blocks away, whi Q above the din could
plainly be heard the shrIeks OF agony
from tho dying and Injured, and the
cries of the unlnjurcd who, goaded to
desperation by their impending fate,
fought madly with each other to escape
the awful wreck.
Station Agent Eagan was standing on
tho depot platform when the crash came,
talking to an acquaintance, and to-
gether with several residents OF the
neighborhood ran TO the scene only a
few yards away. 1t was an awful sight.
Tho -thrna ronr coaches of tho .aiaais .
train were telescoped aud piled up In
great confusion. Beneath the debris OF
crushed timber and broken glass the
yroans OF the dying and injured could
DO heard, and the rcsculng party lmme-
liatclY began the task OF extricating
them from their perilous position.
telephone call brought patrol
wagon with squad OF men. Tho men, {
Ders OF truck company No. ~, with
heir axes and saws werc also sum
noncd. With these rcinforcements the
work OF rescuing the unfortunates was
speedily accomplished.
The dead and most OF the injured
" ere in the second and third coaches OF p,
hc train. Axes and saws were brought
nto play and In q few minutes the dead '
)ody of Lilly Diener was taken from (
he wreck. The poor girls body was i
earfully mangled aud was carried into {
he depot and laid OH the floor. Then .
wo unknown men whose faces wero |.
rushed beyond recognition were taken q
nut and carried to tho depot. e
The injured were speedily taken out I
nd carried to nclghboring houses. v
physicians who had been summoned, n
llcviated tho suffcrlnRs OF the injured y
nd they were then taken to tho county }.
nd Presbyterian hospitals. A few OF =
ho injured lived within few blocks OF 7
he scene OF the accident and these were D
akon TO their homes. 4
There seems TO be division of opin- q
On as to the real cause OF the accident q
he engineer OF tho burlington train, ;
iobert Dixon, claims that the picnic -
rain displayed no danger signals on
nc rear car. whilo his fireman, Frank
larsh, admits that he saw ono from
is side OF the engine, but 1t W as burn
~ so low as TO be almost indiscerna-
10 aud could not be seen five car
'ngths away.
l.. Voss, who lives at No. o54 Spauld-
~ avenue, was In his back yard talk n
lg with n ncighbor, John Fellows, and
lYs that two bright, rod lights wero b
Isplayed from either side of tho roar
latform OF the last car. However that a
ay be, the Illinois Central train Is in
art or wholly TO blame from the fact :.
lat the rear brakeman disrcgarded the 7"
lies OF the company and failed to 20
lck with danger signals to warn an. u
trains after his train had
)me to q stop. al
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