River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
DANGERS OF TRAVEL.

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More Fatal Railway Wrecks Reported
An Excursion Train TeIescoped In the
Outskirts of Chicago Five Persons
Killed and Dozen Injured-The Death
List at Shoemaker willie, Pa, Numbers
Twenty One Three Trainnen Lose Their
Lives in low Other Disasters.
CHICAGO, Sept. 22.-The Downer's
Grove Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
express train while running at top
speed at 7:l0 o'clock Sunday evening
plunged headlong into the rear coach of
an Illinois Central excursion train re-
turning from Addison Park and crowded
with excursionists. The accident oc-
Cured just west of Kedzie avenue
on the 20" tracks which the Illinois
Central uses for it's Western service.
The train consisted of fifteen cars, all
crowded, and the thirteenth and four
teenth cars were telescoped, killing four
people instantly and injuring a score
more, several fatally. One of the lat
ter died soon after. The dead were all
residents of Chicago. Their names are
Lily Diener, Margaret Diener cousin
of Lily, Otto Schloef, Theodore Boil
ger and an unidentified man. Three
young ladies were fatally injured and
nine other persons were badly hurt
The Illinois Central train was the
third section of big excursion known
as the fourteenth annual Evangelical
Lutheran Orphan Asylum excursion.
The asylum is located at Addison Park,
and |, 500 Germans had taken their din
ners and gone for happy time.
The scene of the collision was about
200 feet south of the intersection of
Eighteenth street and Kedzie avenue
Douglas station. The Illinois Central
excursion train had come to a stop at
the station awaiting the removal of OBJ
structions at Western avenue, about a
quarter of mile north. The Downer's
Grove express on the Chicago Burlington
& Quincy railway was due at that point at
7:i0 o'clock, and was four minutes late.
1t was due iii the Union depot at 7:2O,
and the engineer was trying to make up
lost time. The excursion train consisted
of fifteen cars. every one filled with
people. The express train consisted of
an engine, baggagc-car and six passcn-
ger coaches. with about 100 people
on board. The uninjured on the excur-
sion and all the people of the
express train, none of whom were in
jured. made wild break for the doors,
ard alighted on either side of the two
trains. The greater majority, however,
immediately gathered around the wreck
and gave their assistance to those pin
Toned beneath the telescoped cars, and to
those whose injuries were SO serious
that they could not help themselves.
The full force OF the collision was exert
ed on the second aud third passenger
coaches from the rear of the excursion
train, these two being telescoped. The
rear of the third coach was crushed
like an egg she'll and all on the
platform and in that end of the
coach was doomed. The second coach
crowded inside the first, tearing up the
seats and crowding every thing into a
mass in the front end of the car. One
man had his throat cut by broken
piece of wood. The Diener girls, who
bad been on the platform, were killed
outright.
The police arrested at the scene OF
the accident Engineer Dickson and
later in the evening took McAvoy, of
he Downers Grove accommodation,
INTO custody, and also arrested train
man named w. ii. Seavers. They
failed to secure the Illinois trainmen,
Darlington and Taylor, at Douglas sta
ton, as the men got away in very
lnseemly haste. They were arres ed in
the city later on.
THREE MEN KILLED IN IOWA
COUNCIL BLUFFS. Ia, Sept "A dis
astrous wreck occurred on the Wabash
railway eight miles southeast of this
city at $50 o'clock Sunday morning,
An incoming freight train from St.
Louis, consisting of eighteen cars,
all loaded with merchandise, ran
into burning bridge or tres
tle-work and the engine and thir-
teen cars went through to the ground,
forty feet below. The bridge is over a
deep ravine. When the fire was sighted
by the engineer it was too late to pre-
vent wreck. The killed were: Martin
Eskridge, the engineer; Joseph Burke.
fireman.; Robert Williamson, head
brakeman.
THE HEADING ACCIDENT.
READING, Pa, Sept. 22-It was not
until $3.50 Saturday afternoon that the
wreckers reported that all the bodies
had been taken from the SchuyIkill
river at the scene of the wreck of the
fast express on the Reading railroad Fri
day evening. Twenty-one dead and thir-
ty-two injured is the record of the awful
plunge of the train after It mad struck
the coal train wreck at the curve.
BAD WRECK IN NEW YORK.
MmDLETowN, n. ". Sept. 22.-The
Wells Fargo express train eastward
bound crashed into coal train partial
ly hidden by curve about
two miles west of here. The
coal train was completely tele-
scoped by the loaded cars ahead OF
it. The freight crew were asleep, and
two of them-Conductor Charles Lep-
pert and Flagman William II. Duffy
were killed.
FATAL COLLISION IN PENNSYLVANIA.
CoNNELLsvILLE, Pa, Sept. % An
east-bound freight train on the Balti-
more & Ohio road, twelve miles from
here, was dashed into from the rear end
by fast freight. The engine of the
wrecked train was sent for assistance
and while returning, through n flag
mans carelessness, was run into by the
wrecking train near the scene of the
first collision. James Shields, the en-
gineer, was killed. and his fireman,
Harry Cuphert, badly injured inter
nally.
Happy Over Hrnnepin's Prospects.
Rock ISLAND, Ill, Sept. 22.-The cit
liens turned out en- masse Saturday
night to celebrate the Presidents in
dorsemnnt of the river and harbor bill