The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-09-25

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
quarter of mile north. The Downers
Grove express on the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy railway was due at that point at
7:10 o'clock, and was four minutes late.
1t was due in the Union depot at 7:2O,
nd the engineer was trying to make up
lost time. The excursion train consisted
OF fifteen cars. every one filed with
people. The express train consisted of
an engine, baggage-car and six passen-
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,
and alighred 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 and 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 a broken
piece of wood. The Diener girls, who
had 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
the Downer's Grove accomm cd alton,
into custody, and also arrested train
man named w. H. Seavers. They
failed to secure the Illinois trainmen,
Darlington and Taylor, at Douglas sta
ton, as the men got away in very
unseemly haste. They were arrested in
the city later on.
THREE MEN KILLED IN IOWA.
COUNCIL BLUFFS. Ia, Sept. GA dis
astrous wreck occurred on the Wabash
railway eight miles southeast of this
city at $3.50 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
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 READING ACCIDENT.
READING, Pa, Sept. eat was not
until $3.50 Saturday afternoon that the
wreckers reported that all the bodies
had been taken from the Schuylkill
river at the scene of the wreck of the
fast express on the Reading railroad Fri
day evening. Twenty-on 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.
M1DDLErowN, N. Y, Sept. 22.-The
Wells-Fargo express train eastward
bound crashed into coal train partial
~ 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-Conducto Charles Lep-
pert and Flagman William H. Duffy
were killed.
FATAL COLLISION IN PENNSYLVANIA.
CoNNELIsvILLE, Pa, Sept. 22.-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 a 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.