Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-01-15
CHICAGO'S PERILS.
The Danger of Riding on Her
Street Railways.
FATAL MIsEAP AT A CROSSING


\ Street Car Reduced to KindIing, Right
cen Persons Wounded, and One Killed
Gross CareIessness the Cause.-The
Car Driven Right in Front of the loco
motive and Wrecked in am Instant
bleeding Victims Carried Into = -
loon.
CHICAGO, Jan. l5.-Another street cross
ing horror occurred last night A pat
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago limited
passenger train crashed into Forty
enth street horse car at the Stewart avca,.a
crossing at lU:3U O'Clock, instantly EiiI.a-
one Passenger and injuring eighteen Others.
he accident happened at a crossing made
dangerous to surface eportatiou b, a
network OF fourteen tracks OF the ig-
Jured, all but one were able to give thcr
names. This one was a woman OF middle
age with IA CHASTITY wound on her forene..
and fracture of her skull. she would ia
all probability die, the doctors said. bu;
she was unconscious Of their verdict, and
tossed about upon her improvised bed on 4;
saloon floor, groauing piteou7ly She was
atterward taken TO the county hospital.
Long Roll of Victims.
The killed and injured are "a follow:
hiiied-Unknown woman body found on
pilot Of engine and removed to McIncrn.1'-
morgue. Wounded ReinhoId Hucl,>. cut
about the head; Mrs. j. \. p. HeubelI.
skull fractured, taken 20 the county ho.pi-
tai and Will die; Lizzie Peterson, cut about
the face and head; john Harris, cut and
bruised about the head; Mary Savage. size
bruised and head cut Fred Wnterhoider.
cut about face, arms and head; Peter An
ders, cut and bruised about head: Patrick
kreig!e, head cut; Mabel Hidden. bad cut
on left side of head and one eve injured;
Mary Frazer, scalp cut; F. KppprI.iuteIna!ly
injured and cut about face: Joseph kup-
pei, ms son, cut about head and shoulders:
Richard Hasch, head cut, VI. II. O'Donneu,
head cut and leg bruised: Stella Smith,
Is years old, head and body cut; Philip
hneis, injured about the head and body:
John Heating, cut about the head: Alls.
John Heating, injured about the shoulders
and head cut: Charles Bergluder, leg and
arms cut; John Clifford, slight cuts; La
Verne NahEyr, Slight cuts
Due to Combined CnreIeSsuc,s.
I he accident Is said 20 have been due to
the combined careIes~ueSS or stupidity OF
three mcu. Herman AlUreuht, the crossing
keeper; Joseph Flanagan. the conductor
OF the street car, and Michael Cragin. the
driver The facts, as generally admitted,
are a~ follows: Car No. 5p2 east bound on
Forty -~eyenth street 10 connect with the
State street g.ip train, reached the West
eEn Indiana and Fort Wayne tracks at
l1:$o O'Clock. II was The conductors duty
o. run ahead and see that ;hr tracks wc.c
clear. bat whether be did or not is not ab-
parent. AlOrecHt, the crossing keeper.
say, he did not.
Didn't see The Train.
The guard gates had been lowered for II
passing freight train, and were being raised
a. the car approached the crossing. Al
bre';ht worked tine gates, and by his own
story appears to be guilty OF the gTos~gsU
carclesSHcs> The tracks were clear On
each side, the electric lights illUmined
the tracks for u mile in each direction. aud
yet he did NOT see the Fort Wayne limited
train bearing down on his crossing at the
rate Of forty miles an hour
\ T0o-Tardy Warming.
A. AlJrcCnt raised the gates Driver
Cragiu whipped up his horse and in an in
slant was on the tracks Just IN front of
the speeding train. The engineer pulled
his whistle valve, the crossing keeper
driver and conductor looked around for
the first time ana screamed the too-tardy
warning There was q crash, u score OF
human voices raised in the agony ot terror
and the street car and it, burden OF tween
~ people WAS hurled, spijutered and
Crushcu, fifty feet ahead OF the train.
Help Hurried to the Scene.
Al the crash the train slowed down an
der Tia influence of the lever reversed a
moment before. Inmates of surrounding