Mower County transcript., 1890-01-29
UNITED in DEATH.

4 Father and Mother Killed 1T Chicago
While ON tho way to Bury Their Little
Child-A Train Running at FULL speed
Dashes Into the Mourners' Carriage
Two other Persons Lose Their Lives.
CHICAGO, Jan. 24-A most distressing
accident which resulted in the death
Of four persons, occurred at Rose Hill
Cemetery, on the Chicago & Northwest
ern road. Thursday afternoon. Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Payne, whose homo was at
No. - Aberdeen street, were on their
way with few friends to bury their
5-months-old babe. There were only
tour carriages in the procession. Mr..
and Mrs Payne were In the carriage
Immediately following the hearse, and
with them were Mrs. William Reprogel
and Oracle Payne, their little s-year-old
daughter. It was $3.50 o'clock in the
afternoon, and the Milwaukee express,
four minutes behind time, was nearing
the city at high rate Of speed. As the
Payne carriage came squarely on the
| track the engine struck it in the center,
tearing it into splinters and instantly
killing Mr.. and Mrs. Payne. Mrs
Reprogel and Simon Anderson, the
driver, received injuries from which
they died within two hours afterward.
AL who witnessed or knew any thing
| of the occurrence agree that no warning
| whatever of its approach was given by
J. Mahoney, and the fireman William
Anderson. The train was in charge
of Conductor Barney Kavanaugh.
The train was stopped within a
| block of where the accident occurred,
backed up and the bodies of the dead
and injured were placed in the baggage
car. Mrs. Reprogal and Anderson,
the driver, were still alive when
the train reached the depot at
North Chicago avenue. The North Chi
! cago Avenue Police station was notified
| and at o'clock Officer Finn with the
| signal-servioe wagon removed Ander-
son to the Emergency Hospital, corner
Ii Sale and Superior streets,
| whero he died few moments
later. Tie bodies of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Payne were removed to the Chicago &
| Northwestern depot at Wells street,
whence they were taken to Jordau's un-
| dertaking establishment Mrs. Rep
| rogel died shortly after reaching the de-
! pot
The track in the vicinity where the
| accident occurred is straight and level,
and the catastrophe seems to have been
| entirely without excuse. The grief
| among the surviving relatives as
! they gazed upon the mutilated bodies
lying upon the rude cots pre-
pared for their reception at the depot
| was heartrending. Mrs. Payne's face
| was badly SCARED and the top of her
husbands head was entirely crushed in.
Mrs. Reprogel was sslightlyedisfgured
but the old drivers face was terribly cut
and bruised and his eyes swollen and
biackened.
Late in the evening Engineer Ma
honey was arrested for causing the
| death Of these four persons and was
locked up at the East Chicago
! Avenue station pending an in
vestigation Of the accident by
| the coroner. He was badly broken
up when informed that he would
have to pass the night in a cell, and
stoutly protested his innocence of any
| criminal neglect Of his causing the
death of the four victims. He said that
from his seat in the engine, which was
on the opposite side to that from which
the funerar was approaching. he could
not see any thing except directly ahead
of the engine. On the other hand,
those of the funeral procession could,
before they reached the crossing, COM
mand full view of the track in either
direction. They must have seen the
train coming.