New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-09-24
FIVE MEET DEATH.
Members Of a Returning Party
Of EXculsiOllists Meet a Ter.
rible Fate in Chicago.
Two Trains Collide and About
a Dozen People are Killed
nr Manned.

CHICAGO, Sept pa collision between a
Burlington. suburban train and an Illinois
Central excursion train at Eighteenth street
and Kedzie avenue tonight resulted in the
death of five people and the serious injury
OF a dozen Others, three Of whom will prob
ably die. The dead are Lily Diener, aged
tWenty-three; Martha Diener, aged twenty
one; Otto Schloef1, aged seventeen; and two
men identity unknown. The fatally in
jured are Lena Riswig, aged seventeen;
Minnie Pilgrim. aged nineteen; Eddie
Torpe, aged sixteen In addition to these
We're the following: Title Burke left
shoulder broken; Henry Lutz, leg fractured;
Q. 81. Niemann. right leg broken and left
arm crushed; Charles Marose, arm broken.
number Of others received cuts and
bruises but were able to go home without
assistance.
During the day the Illinois Central had
run an excursion to the end of their line,
the orphan asylum at Addison, ILL.,, and it
was this train which, while blocked" in
the outskirts Of the city, waiting to be re-
leased, was crashed into by the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy suburban. Engineer
Dixon. Of the Burlington train, claims that
the rear red lights of the Illinois Cen
trail train were burning SO dimly as
to afford him no warning Of their pres
ence. Other reports have that the Burling-
ton train was behind time, and running at
reckless rate. Engineer Dixon says that
as quickly as possible, he reversed his en-
CINE and applied the air brake but the mo-
mentum Of the heavy train was too great
and they struck the excursion train with
great violence. The rear car was lifted
from the track and forced through the next
car ahead, which in turn was forced into
the third car from the rear The Chicago,
Burlington d Quincy engine lost her pilot.
headlight and smokestack and her front
head was stove i'll, while her tender was
forced up against the boiler head
Neither Engineer Dixon nor his fireman
was injured, having jumped off when it ap-
peared inevitable that the train could not
be stopped. Instantly there was the widest
confusion. The excursion train consisted
OF fifteen cars, every ons filled with people.
The express train consisted of an engine
baggage car and six passenger coaches, with
about one hundred people on board. The
unlnJured on the excursion and all the peo-
pie of the express train, none of whom were
I'M ured, made wild break for the doors
and alighted on either side of the two trains
MaHy lIlSLleneu passengers ran nom the
scene of the collision, apparently under the
impression that their only sa ETY. lay in
fight. Many went imping off, indicating
that possibly many more were injured than
those mentioned above The greater ma
jority, however, Immediately gathered
around the wreck and gave their assistance
to those pinioned beneath the telescoped
cars aad to those whose injuries were so
serious that they could not help them
selves.
Conductor Darlington. Engineer Dixon
and a brakeman We're arrested, but no state
ment could be obtained from them further
than the assertion of Engineer Dixon that
he saw no red lights until he was upon the
excursion train.