Telegram-herald., 1890-09-23
MANY VICTIMS.
Railway Accidents Cause Great
Less Of Life.
Sb Killed aao : Doxen wounses IA
COLLISION rear chlsAEs-
Other Fatzl mreoks.
s0sir oNE arspEaED.

CECA6o Sept g 2--Ths Downer's
Grsve ChicAga BaFlinyt0n 1 ouincx
express tram While Funnlnx a. tou
speed - TO o'clock saEsay evening
plunged hesdiOng into ths rear coach of
ga lllinsis Cen1rsl excersioa train re-
t0rnlag frosa Addison Park Aaa crowded
With excursionlsts- The accident 90
eurred igst west of kedzie avenue
on the % tracks which tie Illinois
Central uses fer It's Western sersioe.
The train consisted OF rileen cars all
crowded. and the thirteenth and four
teenth cars we're teleseeped, killing four
people Instantly and iniuFing score
more. several fatally. One of the lat
Ter died soon after. The dead were all
residents OF Chicago. Their names are
Lily Dlener, Margaret Diensr cousin
Of Lily, Otto Schloeff, Theodore Bol
ger and an unidentified man. Three
young ladies were fatally injured and
nine other persons were badly hurt
OF those fatally hurt Miss Minnie
Pilgrim died al her honle. while TilNe
Burk are in very precarlous condition
~ her home. ll5 Burling street The
results in the eases OF the other badly
injured, among whom Is Ed Iorpe 10
years cid, are at this time Problematio.
The Illinois Central train was the
third section Of a big excursion known
as the fourteenth annual Evangelical
Lutheran Orphan Asylum excursion.
The asylum is located a. Addison Park,
and |, 500 Germans lad taken their dim
ners and gone for happy time
Dancing and games had been the order
+ OF the day, and the people returning
/ we've singing and in the midst OF enjoy
ment.
I T-ne scene OF the collision was about
200 feet south Of the intersection of
Eighteenth street and Redzie avenue
Douglas station. The Illinois Central
excursion train had come TO stop at
the station awaiting the removal OF OBJ
/ strdctions at Western avenue, about a
quarter of mile north. The Downer's
I Grove express on the Chicago. Burlingto Ton
/ & Quincy railway was due az that point at
4 71o o'clock, and was four minutes late.
IL was due in the Union depot at 7:20,
and the engineer was trying 10 make UP
lost time. The excursion train consisted
of fifteen cars. every one filed with
people. The express train consisted Of
I 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
1aexpress train, none Of whom were in
jured. made a wild break for the doors,
Il aif ~ ba
trains. The greater majority, however,
Immediately gathered around the wreck
and gave their assistance TO those pin
! ioned beneath the telescoped cars, and 20
those WI ose 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 tslescoped. 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 broken
piece of wood. The Diener girls, who
had been on the platform, were killed
outright.
AS soon as the police arrived upon the
spot, they placed the crews of both trains
under arrest II. S. Darlington, conduc-
tor; FL. ID. Taylor, brakeman, and II. L.
Seaver, engineer. OF the Illinois Gen.
trail, were taken TO headquarters where
they told their story. According 20 what
they said they we're moving along at
rate OF about eight miles an
hour when struck. The 20" OYER
ates under the block system, and
signal was given him by the
semaphore which permitted him to so
ahead. Conductor Rhea, Engineer Dix
on and his fireman, Jack Walsh, OF
the express. were locked up al
the Hinman street station. Dix
/ on lays the blame on the ILL.,
nois Central crew. saying tho train
was standing still on the crossing, that
there were no lights in the rear car.
and that no one had come back 10 flag
them. All the arrested men viii be
held until the Coroner's jury can in
vestigste.
FATHEB AND son ISsTAS7IY KrILrD.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Sept 22.-Jsmes
and John Gladson. father and son.
were killed by wild engine on the East
f Tennessee railroad near 0ltevan Sunday.
They were riding in wagon drawn
by blind horse. The animal had just
-
struck. The old man was thrown thirty
F feet. the boT. about sixteen years old.
went Fifty feet before he struck the
earth. dead. bis skull being smashed
into little pieces
THRFE NFx KILLED X IOWA
CoUNcu BIyTrs. Ia. Sept. p A dis
sstrous wreck occurred on the Wsbssh
railway eight miles southeast Of thi,
s city a. $50 o'clock sunday morning
An incoming freight train from 81
Louis. consisting of eighteen cars,
al loaded sith rnerohandise. raa
into burning bridge or tres
tie-werk ard the engine and thir.
teen cars went throaEh % the ground.
forty feet below Tho bridge is Over 4
seep ravine. When the FIRE vss sirhses
I hr The engineer IL vss 80 ste - rre-
vent wreck TIE KILLED were. Nzrfiu
EskTldTe. TIE engineer. joseph Barks.
freman Rollers Williarson. heaf
F hrakemsn. Essfszs vas barred sn5s'
his engine ard vas hruned q
death AZ that co8i5 ~ foand - a
remains vas eaantlfv of honss that =
ran ooala hol6 ia his fzs hsn8s Tks
4 f7suan sas csaFht under a cs- contain.
ing tsnk of oil ars ret 3 hoTri bls
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