The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-30
A FATAL ACCIDENT.
An Engine Crashes into a Crowd
cd chicago Street Css.
FOUR PASSENGERS ARE KILLED
And Eight others Sustain Serious
Ipiaries-.six Persons Arrested for
Being ouIpabie-The Accident Said
to DO Diet TO Gross carelossness.

CHICAGO Lee. 80
were killed and twice that number in-
iured by the collision of a street car
and a locomotive at Forty-seyenth
street and Stewart avenue. The street
car was crowded and was crossing the
Ii. Wayne railway tracks when q 1T.
Wayne train crashed into it SO sudden
IL that the occupants had no time TO
escape. The engineer Of the train and
tho watchmen at tho crossing, Of which
there are two, are under arrest.
The list ot victims is asfollows:
Tie dead:
George Blaha, Fiftieth and LOOMS
street, died just atterthe accident
Of the engine.
Unknowntman found near the body
Of the first victim under the tender oil
Unknown woman died in a patrol
wagon on the way to Mercy hospital.
The Injured:
Minnie Kuhler, scalp and other IN
Patrick sD'Neill. 0S7 Forty-seyenth
street, right leg broken.
Henry Grnber, 4447 Good street,
scalp wounds and internal injuries.
Helf Conway, 4445 Dearborn street,
Internally.
John Breskea, 4430 Fiftieth street, In
iuries on head and body.
i. j. Costello, 1928 Wentworth avenue
severely Injured about the body, and
Others sustained slight injuries.
The accident happened when the
street q traffic was ut its heaviest and
the cars were crowded to the doorways
with people standing and sitting. Car
No: 2i65had like all the others a very
heavy complement Of passengers. II
was going cast on Forty-seventh street
TO State street, whore it was to be
hitched on to a grip car which was TO
bring it to the business center OF the
city.
As il approached the tracks Of the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne y Chicago
Railroad Company. at the junction OF
Forty.seyenth street and Stewart
avenue, an engine belonging to that
company came backing down the tracks
toward thercrossing at q rate OF about
fifteen miles an hour, the railway peo-
pie say. For some reason the occu-
pants Of the engine cab did not see the
car approaching the crossing. and on
account of the heavy coating Of ice on
the windows of the car, the passengers
did not sec the engine bearing down
upon them. In an instant the engine
struck the car aud passed on, leaving a
trail, of dead and injured.
The car was dragged for distance oil
about one hundred and fifty yards, and
at every foot of the distance, new in
Jury was addedto those inflicted when
the engtneTirst struck the car. The
horses became detached from the car
and ran away uninjured. The cries oil
theinjured instantly attracted the at
tendon Of people in the nelRhboring
houses, and!the residents hurriedou 70
iointhe persons who had 9 the &C:
cident, and had hastened to the injured
ones. AT about the time the injured
had,all been assisted out OF the wreck.
age five police patrol wagons arrived on
the scene, and the policemen assumed
charge OF the work.
As soon, as the police arrived. on the
scene four persons were placed under
arrest. These are Conductor 0'Connor
and Driver Stanley who were on the
street a and Engineer Rosscup and
Fireman Meager, OF the train which
did the damage. The officers then
turned their attention to the employees
OF tile railroad who are responsible for
guarding the crossing. There are two
q them, Peter Schwartz, who Is in the
tower at the crossing, and John ALI
bright, who guards the track from the
ground level. Both denied that they
were responsible for the accident, but
both withathe four other prisoners were
at.once locked up.