The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-09-25
CHILDREN IN A WRECK.
EXCURSION TRAIN SMASHED
IN A COLLISION.

lessness Responsible for the Horror :
Misunderstanding Scenes at the Wreck.
Chicago Dispatch: Through the
carelessness Of the train hands of an H.
LIMOS Central train, who tailed in the
performance of their duty. two passen-
ger trains came together Sunday night
at the Kedzie avenue crossing of the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
tracks, enacting a horrible death-deal-
ing scene. Five persons were killed,
two fatally injured, and eleven more or
less seriously injured.
The killed:
LILY DIENER. II years of age, living at
No. 459 Ashland avenue.
MARGARET DIENER IA years of age,
living 1T Ashland avenue and Twentieth
street.
OTTO SCHOLEFF. 80 years of age, living
at No. 167 Center street.
PETER BERGER, - years of age. living at
COS Hastings street.
UNKNOWN MAN. about 81 years of age.
The fatally injured are:
LENA EIswIG, No. 1879 Orchard street. loft
leg broken and crushed about the upper
part of the body.
LOUISE TOERsE. 10 years of age, residence
unknown, legs crushed and severe internal
injuries
FRED RIswIC, No. $50 Orchard street, left
leg broken and hand crushed,
MISS BOURK, No. 1l6 Burling street, collar
bone and right arm broken.
FRED PFIsTER, right hand cut off:
JOHN KRAEMER. left arm broken and fin
gers of right hand mashed.
ALBERT BURGER, No. $40 Hastings street,
right foot cut off
r. HOFFMAN No. 10 Nutt street left leo
broken below the knee.
E. KORN, No. 80 Fisk street right arm and
three Ribs on the right side broken.
ROBERT HOFFMAN, No. 290 Latin street,
right arm broken at the wrist.
FRANK BURLINT, right hand mashed and
scalp wounds
PETER KAUFMAN. right foot mashed.
HENRY HIENNMAN, No. AS Ogden avenue,
severe cut on the neck and scalp wounds.
The accident occurred at 7:2O o'clock
and was caused by the Downer's Grove
express on the Chicago, Burlington Il
Quincy road, crashing into the rear of
an Illinois Central picnic train stand ing
at the crossing only d few feet from the
Douglas Park station.
at that hour the Illinois Central train
bearing several hundred merry children
who were returning from q picnic
given by the German Evangeli-
cal Lutheran Orphan asylum at
Addison Park, twenty-eight miles
from the city, became stalled at
the KedZie avenue crossing. between
Nineteenth aud Twentieth streets, ow-
ing to a train crossing the track at
Western avenue few blocks further
east. The picnic train was divided in
three sections, the rear section con-
tanning eight passenger coaches. They
h0h war nh Of
danger and had come to complete
stand still, when the c. b. d Q. Down
er's Grove express came bowling along
at the rate Of thirty miles an hour and.
in full view of dozens of Mortified spec
tators, crashed with terrific force into
the rear car of the last section of the
train.
An almost indeScribable Gene of hOr
ror and misery Immediately followed
The crash of the collision was heard
blocks away, whi e above the din could
plainly be heard the ShriekS of agony
from the dying and injured, and the
cries of the uninjured who, goaded to
desperation by their impending fate
fought madly with each other to escape
the awful wreck.
Station Agent Eagan was standing on
the depot platform when the crash came,
talking to all acquaintance, and to-
gether with Several residents of the
neighborhoOd ran to the scene only a
few yards away. 1t was an awful sight.
The three rear coaches Of the picnic
train were telescoped and piled up in
great confusion. Beneath the debris of
crushed timber and broken glass the
groans of the dying and injured could
be heard, and the rescuing party imme-
diatelY began the task Of extricating
them from their periious position.
A telephone call brought patrol
wagon with squad Of men. The mem
berS of truck company No. ~, with
their axes and saws were also sum
moned. With these reinforcements the
work OF resculng the unfortunates was
speedily accomplished.
The dead and most Of the injured
were in the second and third coaches Of
the train. Axes and saws were brought
into play and in % few minutes the dead
body of Lilly Diener was taken from
the wreck. The poor girls body was
fearfully mangled and was carried into
the depot and laid on the floor. Then
two unknown men whose faces were
crushed beyond recognition were taken
out and carried to the depot.
and carried to neighboring houses.
Physicians who had been summoned,
aleviated the sufferings of the injured
and they were then taken to the county
and Presbyterian hospitals. A few Of
the injured lived within few blocks Of
the scene of the accident and these were
taken to their homes.
There seems to be a division of Opin-
ion as to the real cause of the accident.
The engineer of the Burlington train.
Robert Dixon, claims that the picnic
train displayed no danger signals on
the rear car, while his fireman, Frank
Marsh, admits that he saw one from
his side of the engine, but 1t w as burn
ing so low .as to be almost indiScerna-
BILE and could not be seen five car
lengths away.
L. Voss, who lives at No. 954 Spauld-
ing avenue, was in his back yard talk
ing with neighbor, John Fellows, and
says that two bright, red lights were
displayed from either side of the rear
platform of the last car. However that
may be, the Illinois Central train is in
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