The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-15
STUPID MEN CAUSE A WRECK.
Swift Train Hits q Street Car and Two
Women are Killed.

Swift Train Hits q Street Car and Two
Women are Killed.
CHICAGO, Jan. IA surface railway
crossing horror occurred tonight at Forty
seventh street, on the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne & Chicago track An inbound
Fort Wayne train struck a Forty-seventh
street transfer horse car, two passengers
being instantly killed and thirteen in
jured. The train was limited No. 9, and
the accident was at point where there is
a network of fourteen tracks. Two women,
who had not been identified at late hour,
were killed. Of those injured, three or
four are in very serious condition.
The catastrophe was due to the COM
bined stupidity of three men: Herman
Albrecht, the crossing keeper; Joseph
Flanagan, the conductor, and Michael
Craigin. the driver of the street car. 1t
was the conductors duty to run ahead
and see that the tracks were clear, but
whether he did this is not apparent. Al
brecht says he did not. Electric light lit
up the road for nearly mile in each di-
rection, and yet Albrecht did not see the
limited bearing down on his cross
ing at the rate of forty miles
an hour. He raised the gates,
Driver Craigin whipped up the horses,
and in an instant was on the track just in
front OF the train. The engineer blew the
whistle. The crossing keeper, driver and
conductor looked around for the first time
and screamed tardy warning. There
was a crash. and the street car and its
burden of human beings was hurled,
splintered and crushed, fifty feet ahead of
the train.
Scores of people from the surrounding
houses rushed out, and saloon, the near
est building, was transformed into tenn
porary hospital. The corpse of one of the
women passengers was found across the
pilot of the locomotive, 100 yards from the
street car, when the limited was brought
to a standstill. The trainmen are consid-
cred blameless by the police. The cross
ing-keeper and street car conductor have
been arrested. The driver is said to be in
hiding.
Negro Murderer Lynched at Oxford, o.
OXFORD, O., Jan. 14.-Henry Corbin, a
negro, who murdered Mrs. George f. Hor-
ner here on Tuesday night, was lynched
at 10 O'Clock this evening. He has been in
hiding since the murder in a shed 200 feet
from the place where the crime was CON-
mitted. Growing hungry he sent negro
boy for food, and the boy told of his hid
ing-place. 4 crowd was at once
formed and rushed to the spot. The
murderer heard them, but too late 10
escape. In cowardly fear he endeavored
TO suicide, but only inflicted slight
wound. The crowd rushed in and seized
him. The marshal and assistants took
him in charge and were leading him to the
jail, followed by an enraged crowd. Just
at the door of the Jail some one threw a
rope around his neck, but the marshal cut
it and the murderer was locked up. The
mob, soon hearing that the sheriff was on
his way 10 take charge of Corbin, broke
into Jail. dragged out the murderer and
hanged him 10 tree in the public square,
then fired a hundred bullets into his body.
The crowd dispersed, leaving Corbin hang
ing.
Corbin had been for two years a servant
Of Mrs. Homer He murdered her with
club on Tuesday night. Her daughter re-
sisted his assault on her. and escaped to
the street. giving the alarm. Mrs. Hor-
uer's maiden name was Markell