Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-22
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
!, From All Quarters.
-FOUR RAILROAD WRECKS
A Serious Accident i'm
Chicago.
Severe CYCLONES IN FRANCE.
Seven Men Drowned i'm
Arkansas.
PLANS OF CONGRESS FOR A week.
Explosion of a Locomotive
Boiler.
PLANS OF CONGRESS FOR A week
A SERIES OF ACCIDENTS.

Boiler.
A SERIES OF ACCIDENTS.
Wrecks Reported From all
Quarters-Loss of Four Lives at Chi
cago-Freight Trains Collide on the
b. & O.-Frightful Wreck on the
Omaha and st. Louis ROad-A Train
TeIescoped on the Lake Erie and
Western.
CHICAGO, Sept.21.-At 8 o'clock tonight
a switch engine on the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy ran into the rear of an ex-
cursion train on the Illinois Central road
near Eighteenth street. Four people are
reported killed and large number in
iured. The collision resulted in fright
full tragedy. For time the confusion
was so bad that even an approximate idea
of the loss of life was impossible to be OBJ
tanned.
First reports from the police had it that
forty people probably had met death,
while the railroad officials said that only
two or three persons were certainly known
to have been killed Within half an hour,
however, four mangled corpses had been
dragged out of the heap of broken timbers
and twisted iron that marked the spot
where the collision had taken place. By
this time it had also been ascertained that
at least three people were seriously injured
and six others slightly.
The four dead were two sisters named
Gilman and two young men, identity I'M
known. Of the injured, one who gave her
name as Miss Pilgrim was in dying con-
dition when taken from the wreck. The
seriously wounded are: Henry Niemann,
face smashed and hurt internally; Albert
Berger, leg broken and foot crushed; Mr..
Ricwig, head and arm badly cut; Mrs.
Bork, collar bone broken; Richard Hoff-
man, leg mangled; E. Korn, rib broken;
Otto Schrof, Lena Riswick and Kirk East
man, hurt, but not dangerously. Conductor
Henry Darlington of the passenger train
and one of the brakemen were arrested.
They refuse to talk.
The collision took place near Douglass
park and the victims were Sunday excur-
sionists just reaching the city on their way
home from an afternoons outing. The
freight train crew. when questioned, as
serted that they had passed Willard avenue
under a clear signal. Willard avenue is
only short distance from where the
s,nashup occurred, and the freight crew
claim that when the crash came the red
train were burning with extreme dimness.
To this the fearful result following was
attributed without hesitation.
The ill-starred excursionists were on the
third section of train homeward bound
from Addison, where there is a large picnic
ground much frequented. Two Illinois
Central cars were telescoped and q third
badly shattered. At the Illinois Central
trainmaster's Office tonight it was stated
that only four persons had been reported
killed and about eight injured.
ACCIDENT ON THE B. AND o.
CoNNELLsvILLE, Pa, Sept. 21.-An east
bound freight train on the Baltimore and
Ohio, twelve miles from here, tonight
was dashed into from the rear by a fast
freight running forty miles an hour, de
molishing the engine and caboose. The
assistance and while returning, through &
flagman's carelessness, was run into by
the wrecking train near the scene of the
first collision.
James Shields, the engineer, was killed
and his fireman, Harry Cuphers, badly in
jured internally, while John Reynolds
fireman of the wrecking train, was badly
cut and scalded.
Several others suffered minor injuries
while the wrecked cars completely blocked
travel
BAD ACCIDENT IN IOWA.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, Sept. 21.-f
frightful railroad accident occurred on thu
Omaha and St. Louis railroad near her
yesterday morning A northbound trair
broke through the trestle fifty feet high
When the train ran on the east end of thu
trestle the engineer discovered that tn
west end was on fire. He signalled TO
brakes The entire train went through
to tho bottom of the gulch. News of tn
| wreck did not reach Council Bluffs until :
o'clock. Relief trains were sent out a
soon as possible, but when it arrived upol
the scene the train was burning. lively
cars were destroyed The killed are:
Martin Eskridge, engineer, of Stanbury
No.
Joseph Burke, fireman, Stanbury
s. Williamson, head brakeman, Macon
Mo.
| The body of the engineer has not we
| been discovered.
| The fireman was burned to ashes, Will
| the brakeman had fractured skull and
| broken limb.
The wreck is total and and it will b
several days before the debris is cleared.
| TRAIN TELEsCoPED.
MIDDLETowN, N. Y, Sept. 21.-A disa
| trous rear collision occurred on the Ne
York, Lake Erie and Western railroad at
point two miles west of this station at te
minutes past twelve o'clock yesterda
morning.
A loaded coal train eastward bound ha
| Is N ~ l,%;1 ,x,l,,1o tho loo
motive of preceding train took waite
The Wells-Fargo express train No. IA, eas
ward bound, heavily loaded and runnir
on schedule time, entered the block
moderate speed in obedience to a cautio
from the signal station, but the coal ira
was hidden from the engineers sight by
curve in the track, and as no fagman a
peared to give warning the momentum
the express train made collision newt
BILE.
The express train engine crashed in
the caboose of the coal train with su
force as to completely telescope it aroul
the coal car ahead There were four
the coal train crew in the caboose when
was struck, all of whom, it is said, we
asleep. Two were instantly killed a
the others were wounded.
The dead are Charles Leppert, oondl
tor, and William'A. Duffy, fagman.
The wounded are Frank Hagerms
J brakeman, severely, and John Mill
brakeman, dangerously:
4 The dead men were shocklngly mangl'
Conductor Leppert's body was crush
and disemboweled. Flagman Duffy's SIX
was crushed in and his legs were smash
into pulp. They were young men,
leave wives and small children.
\ 1ova hrnkQn a
he lies at the Hunt hospital ct Port Jar
in critical condition.
Brakeman Hagerman was thro
through the broken roof of the cabo
over the top of the colliding engine a
landed among the coal in the tender.
is suffering from cuts and bruises.
J, of the victims were residents Of Port j
is Wis. Four of the coal cars were derai
1t and the wreck took fire..
n The dead bodies and the, wounded bra
man were imprisoned in " debris.
unhurt trainmen brought water and ex
guished the flames and released the
~ Tins by using axes and levers. The
T" iding engine, No. 5oo, was badly d'
aged.
Engineer John Steele and his firer
remained at their posts and escaped
hurt, It is said that the disaster
:. mainly due to the negligence OF Condut
> Leppert and Flagman Duffy, who v
asleep in the caboose instead of attend
to their duties.
The dead are: Lily Diener, aged tv
ty-three; Martha Diener, aged twenty-t
Otto Schloeff, aged seventeen; and
u men, identity unknown.
The fatally injured are: Lena Ris
aged seventeen; Minnie Pilgrim, ,
nineteen: Eddie Thorpe, aged sixteen.