Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-07-22
SLAIN AT A CROSSING.
a Train Crashes Into Street Car In Chi
cago. Killing Three Persons and InJur-
ing Many.

A Train Crashes Into n street Car in Chi
cago, Killing Three Persons and InJur-
ing Many.
CHICAGO, July 1S.--Going at the rate
of 80 miles an hour the New York ex-
press on the Chicago & Grand Trunk
railroad ran into heavily loaded South
Halsted street car at Forty-ninth and
South Halsted streets at 5:25 o'clock
Monday afternoon. Three people
were killed and ten injured serious
ly. Several people were slightly in
jured and the driver of the street
car is supposed to be wandering about
crazed by the calamity of the people in
his charge. 1t is expected that at least
one of the injured will not recover.
Those dead are Grace Hunt, of La
Sale, Ill; Thomas Perkins, 5531 Green
street, and John Finn, a plumber, Chi
cago.
The south-bound Halsted street car,
the open style, was crowded and men
were standing on the footboards 1t
was in charge of Conductor Frank Bar
nett and Driver Charles Stalnecker.
At Forty ninth street is network of
tracks and the crossing has al
ways been regarded as dangerous one.
A long freight train going west had
just passed and the towerman, George
Barnett, had raised the gates. This
was taken as a signal that the way was
clear and Stalnecker whipped up his
horses as he started to drive across the
tracks. Previously, however, Conduc-
| tor Barnett, son of the towerman,
had gone ahead, and not being able to
see the approaching passenger train
because of the freight, he motioned the
driver to go ahead.
AS the car passed on the level so feet
| space between the two double tracks
Barnett noticed cloud of smoke aris-
ing above the freight train to the west.
He told the driver, Stalnecker, to stop
his horses. Stalneclier did not seem
to understand him and whipped his
team into a run to avoid the train he
soon saw was upon him.
The team and forward part of the
car had passed the last track in safety
when the swiftly-moving train crushed
into the rear end and platform. Many
passengers had seen the train at the
last moment and had tried to juml
from the car. Conductor Barnett de
voted his time to picking up womer
and children who fell from the car anC
was not on the car when the engin,
struck it.
The car, broken into many pieces
buried those who had been riding in i
and as the passenger train plunge,
ahead there were many cries of pail
and agony to be heard. Under the ca
was the body of woman, identified a
Miss Grace Hunt and seriously injured
At one side was the mangled body o
Finn, plumber, supposed to be EN-
crushed and his body cut in two, prob
ably by the cars The other occupant
of the open car were piled in heap t
the east of the wreck.
The Grand Trunk train of seve
coaches, with Fireman William Camp
bell and Engineer I. A. Jones i
charge, came to stop within a train
length after striking the street car. A
there was no occasion for Stacking spec
at the crossing the train was going raj
, idly, it is said at the rate of thirt
, miles an hour Policemen from til
Forty-eighth street station got on til
cab of the engine after the accideI
and accompanied the engineer and fir,
man and allowed them to take the
train into the depot. After that bot
men We're taken back to the station an
locked up.
In addition to the Grand Trunk eng
neer and fireman under arrest thel
We're at the station last night an
under arrest the street-car conductC
and the tiagman.