Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-25
INTO THE REAR.
Crash Of an Express Into an Ex-
cursiOn Train.
FIVE PLEASURE SEEKERS KILLED
Awful Accident to . Freight Train on .
Burning Trestle-DoubIe Accident on
the Baltimore 4 Ohio Near
C0nnellsviile, Pa.

! last night an express train on the Chi
cago. Burlington & Quincy railroad ran
into the rear of an excursion train on
the Illinois Central road near Eight
eenth street, causing a terrible wreck.
The collision took place near Douglas
park. the victims being Sunday excur-
sionists just reaching the city on their
way home from an afternoons outing
The dead are: Lily Diener aged
twenty-three; Martha Diener aged
twenty-one; Otto Schloef, aged seven
teen; two men. identity unknown
The fatally hurt are: Lena Riswig,
aged seventeen; Minnie Pilgrim, aged
nineteen; Eddie Thorpe, aged sixteen
In addition to these were the follow
ing injured: Tillie Burke, left shoulder
broken; Henry Lutz, leg fractured; c.
H. Nlemann, right leg broken and left
arm crushed; Charles Melrose, arm
broken.
A number of others received cuts and
bruises. but were able to go home with
out assistance.
During the day the Illinois Central
road had run an excursion to the orphan
asylum at Addison, and it was this
train, while blocked on the outskirts
of the city and waiting to be released,
which was CT ashed into by the Chicago,
burlington & Quincy suburban. En-
| glneer Dickson, of the Burlington train
claims that the rear red lights of the
illinois Central train were burning so
dlmly as to afford him no warning of
their presence. Other reports have it
that the Burlington train was behind
time and was running at reckless
speed.
| The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy
| nj
| smokes tack and her front head was
stove in, while her tender was forced
up against the boilers head Neither
| Engineer Dickson nor his firemen were
injured, both jumping off when it ap-
peared inevitable that the train could
not be stopped
The excursion train consisted of ff-
teen cars, every one filled with people.
The express train consisted of an en-
CINE, baggage car and six passenger
coaches with about 100 people on board.
Conductor Darlington, Engineer Dick
Son and brakeman were arrested. but
no statement could be obtained further
than the assertion of Engineer Dickson
that he saw no red lights until he was
upon the excursion train.
THREE TRAINMEN KILLED.
COUNCIL BLUFFS Iowa. Sept 22-On
the Omaha & St Louis railroad, about
seven miles south of this city, between
2:25 and 2:3O o'clock yesterday morning,
north bound freight train with eighteen
loaded cars from St Louis broke through
trestle work fifty feet high and was
wrecked and three trainmen killed
When the train ran on the east end of
the trestle the engineer saw that the
west end was on fire. signaled for breaks.
of no
dropped sand on the rails but as the
train was running at the rate of twenty
five miles an hour it struck
the burning timb,r. Then there
was crash and the entire train went
through to the bottom of the gulch.
The trestle work was 800 feet long and
the train went through about fifty feet
from the west end. Twelve cars were
destroyed. The killed are: Martin
Eskridge. engineer, of Stanberry, Mo-;
Joseph Burke, fireman, of Stanberry.
Mo-; R S. Williams, head brakeman,
Macon, Mo. Eskridge was crushed to
death under his engine and was burned
to handful of ashes and bits of bone.
Burke was pinned down by truck, cov-
cred with tar from the tank and literally
roasted alive before his Mortified com
radeS. who were unable to extricate him
anu severe 0urQS
in the attempt Williams was thrown
over two cars and struck on the engine,
from which he rehounded into the
bushes, and received injuries from |
which he died in two hours
The burning of the bridge was proba- |
bly, due to a spark from an earlier train
ONE COLLISION CAUSES ANOTHER
CONNELLsvILLE, Pa. Sept cam !
east-bound freight on the Baltimore & |
Ohio road. five miles from here, was |
dashed into from the rear by fast |
time freight running at the rate of forty |
miles an hour, demolishing the engine |
and caboose. The engine of the wrecked |
train was sent for assistance and while |
returning through a fagman's careless |
ness was run into by the wrecking /
train near the scene of the first COLI |
sion. James Shields, the engineer was |
killed, and his fireman, Harry Cuppers,
badly injured internally. while John |
Reynolds, fireman of the wrecking train. /
was badly cut and scalded. Several |
others suffered MINOR injure s. while /
the wreck completely blocked travel