Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-27
LET A SUDDEN FATE.
AN EASTERN ILLINOIS TRAIN
BADLY WRECKED.
Two Persons Killed-Over a Score Of,
the Passengers Badly Cut and In
Jured-The Accident Caused by q Mis-
placed Switch.

CHICAGO, Oct. 25.-Thc Danville ex-
press on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
railroad was wrecked at Forty-ninth
and Wallace streets last night. Eleven
persons were injured and ore woman
was instantly killed.
The killed are:
Mrs. WILLIAM McDoSAbD Chicago, htad
crushed and badly manglcd under car.
JOHN Johnson Chicago Heights, both legs
cut of o. knees. Taken TO Michael Reese hos
pital and died on the way.
The injured are:
Mrs. j j. Graham, Bancroft, Iowa, head
injured, serious
Mrs j. T Taylor, Chicago. head and arms
injured.
William Morris, Chicago Heights, right arm
and hand crushed.
G. w. Thompson. Chicago, arm crushed.
Julia Erunzel, Hoopeston III, arms and
breast injured; not serious.
W. j. White, Rockville. Ill, head injured.
Louise Hallett Terry Haute, Ind, face cut
and arms crushed
Marion Mcdonald, Chicago. right leg badly
crushed
Gus Emerson, Chicago right arm broken.
w. II. Hallett, conductor of train right leg
slightly injured
D. I,engler, Farrell, Ill, head cut not
serious.
Stephen Maddox, Farrell, Ill head cut
not serious.
j. G. Maddox Farrell Ill, head cut not
serious.
John b Kerricll Farrell, H., arms cut and
badly sprained.
Harry Dierking. Sollitt Ill, shoulder cut and
sprained.
j. 8 Drenner. Mount Ayr, Iowa, shoulder
and neck cut badly
J w. Cronn, Momence. III. bruised and in
ternally injured.
Edward Thyfault, ST. Ann. Ind, left leg cut
J Harry Sands Chebansc, H., both arms cut.
J L. Rowe Englewood, ILL., right hand cut
! SENECA Gilbert, Lafayette, Ind, chest
bruised.
w. l. Assam, Chicago leg cut
William Inkston, Chicago, head cut
Mary Smith Momence, Ill, badly bruised
about body.
II. ID. Duddleston, Terre Haute Ind, both
legs cut,
Nellie Hannrahan, Momence, ILL.,, head cut
and arm broken.
Nellie Henry, Terre Haute Ind, head cut
Minnie Schumacher Terre Haute, Ind, right
arm broken and face cut.
The accident was caused by a broken
switch. AT Forty-ninth street the Chi
cago & Eastern Illinois tracks turn
/ sharply to the south on Wallace street.
! just at this curve switch track joins
/ the main track. The engine, mail car,
and smoking car passed the switch in
safely, but the first passenger coach
with scarcely an indication that any
thing was wrong, was thrown COM
| pletely on its side and badly de-
molished. Its fifty passengers were
thrown violently to one side of the car
and buried beneath wrecked seats and
material from the broken sides and
ends of the car.
So sudden was the accident that it is
wonder that more of the passengers
| were not killed outright.
Engineer George Washburn and
Fireman Fred Schultz were arrested,
| but 1t is not thought likely that any
blame can be attached to them for the
accident, as the engine and three
coaches passed over the frog in safety
and the wheels of the fourth coach
catching in threw the end of the car
+ off and the two other coaches fol-
/ lowed. The train was moving at a
rapid rate, the signals being set for
safety and no intimation of danger
coming to the engineer. The train
was known as No. , and pulled out of
the Dearborn street station at IL
o'clock with big load of passengers,
many persons having to stand up for
lack of seat.