Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-12-30
FOUR KILLED.
A LOCOMOTIVE AND STREET CAR COLLIDE IN
CHICAGO.
-Four Passengers Killed Outright and Twice as
Many Badly lniured-Arest Of Those
Who Nay be Responsible

CHICAGO, December 29.-FOur persons
were killed and twice that number Injured
by the collision OF a street Car and loco
motive at Fortv-seventh street and Stew
art avenue. The street car was crowded
and was crossing the Ft WAYNE tracks
when FIT. Wayne train crashed into it so
suddenly that the occupants had no time TO
escape. The engineer of the train and the
watchmen at the crossing, of which there
are two, are under arrest. The list of vic
tins follows:
The dead are: George Blaha, Fiftieth
and LOOMS streets; died just after the &C
cident. Unknown man found under the
tender of the engine, Unknown man found
near the body Of the first victim under the
tender Of the engine. Unknown woman
died in patrol wagon on the way to Mercy
Hospital.
The injured are Minnie Kuhler, scalp
and other injuries; Patrick O'Nein, 937
Forty-seventh street, right leg broken;
Henry Gruber, 4447 Good street, scalp
wounds and internal injuries; Helf Con
way, 4445 Dearborn street, internally;
John Bresker, 1880 Fiftieth street, injuries
on head and body; j. j. Costello, 1925
Wentworth avenue, severely injured about
the body; and others sustained slight in
iuries.
The accident happened when the stree
car trade was at its heaviest and the cars
wee crowded to the doorways with people
sta ding and sitting. Car No. PIG had,
Ike all the others, very heavy compile
menG Of passengers. 1t was going east on
Forty-seventh street to Stats street, where
it was to be hitched on to grip car, which
was to bring it to the business center of
the city.
AS it approached the tracks of the Pitts
burg. Fit. Wayne and Chicago railroad
company at the junction of Forty-seventh
street and Stewart avenue, an engine be-
longing to that company came backing
down the tracks toward the crossing at
rate Of about fifteen miles an hour, the
railway people,say. For some reason the
occupants of the engine cab did not see the
Car approaching the crossing, and on &C
count of the heavy coating Of frost on the
windows Of the car, the passengers did not
see the engine bearing down upon them.
In an instant the engine struck the car and
passed on, leaving trail Of dead and in
jured.
The car was dragged for a distance of
about one hundred and fifty yards, and at
every foot OF the distance new injury was
added to those inflicted when the engine
first struck the car The horses became
| detached from the car aud ran away unin-
JuLGu. NO CL4Go VI luO luJuAON Instantly
attracted the attention of the people in the
nelghborhing houses, and the residents
hurried out to join the persons who had
seen the accident and had FASTENED TO the
injured ones. About the time the injured
had all been assisted out of the wreckage
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 ar
rest These are Conductor O'Conner and
Driver Stanley, who were on the street
car, and Engineer Rosscup and Fireman
Meager, of the train which did the damage.
| The officers then turned their attention to
the employees Of the railroad who are re-
sponsible for guarding the crossing. There
are Two Of them, Peter Schwartz, WHO'S in
the tower at the crossing. and John AL
bright, who guards the track from the
ground level. Both denied that they were
responsible for the accident, but both, with
the four other prisoners, were at once
locked up.