Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-01-05
Crushed Out Their Lives.

Four people were killed and more
than twice that number injured early
Thursday morning by the collision OF
Fort Wayne train with a crowded street.
car Of the Chicago City Railway at the
9Th street and Stewart avenue cross
ing. The train which wrought such
great disaster was made up OF three
cars containing laborers on their way
to Colehour. The dead are: John
Blaha, crushed TO death; Archibald Nc
Andrews, instantly killed; unindentl-
fed woman, supposed to be Mrs. Nj.
Carson, address unknown; unknown
man, horribly mangled.
The accident occurred at 6:lo o clock,
when the street cars were crowded wltn
workmen. Car 1877 going east ON Forty
seventh street had at least fifty pas
senpers on board. AS it neared the
tracks of the Fort Wayne and Wabash
roads there was no warning of an APP
preaching train. Within the Inflated
car sat the workmen smoking their clay
pipes and chatting pleasantly, wholly
unmindful of their impending danger.
| All at once there was wild shrek OF
the engine, q changing OF the bell, ana
! construction train running at hlgh
rate of speed crashed into the car, Great
ing fearful havoc There was no previ-
Gus ringing of the bell, no conspicuous
light on the engine which was moving
backward, and the gateman and tower
man at the crossing had failed wholly TO
do their duty. Neither was at his post.
The wreck occurred while it was still
too dark for the driver or conductor ol
the street car to see 100 feet down the
track. No,one expected the construc-
ton train, and the first known OF the
danger was when the engine shrieked
and the crash came. An instant later
the killed and wounded were strewn
along the frozen ground, the street car
was a complete wreck, and the train
rushed by, leaving frightful scene oi
death and confusion behind. The horses
broke loose from the car and ran away
Early rlsers in the vicinity rushed tC
the rescue of the passengers, and the
alarm was turned into all the neighbor'
ing police stations. Three hundred
yards south of the crossing the traiI
came to a standstill, and the haif
hundred workmen who were on board
en- ronte to work down the track hur
ried to the assistance OF the injured.
widest Confusion Reigned.
Wild confusion Teigned for the hrs
few minutes. Those who had come U
the work of rescue could hear the pitt
full cries OF the wounded and see tn
body of one dead man. Where TO be
gin was a question which puzzled them
Five police patrol wagons arrived ol
the scene soon and policemen too
charge of the work.
At first little attention was directe
TO the train which had done the damage
but after those about the car had beel
picked up it was found that the bodie
! of two men were under the tender
These were recovered.
The police at once placed six person
under arrest. These are Conducto
Bernard O'Connor and Driver Patrlc
q Stanley, who we're on the street cal
Engineer Rosscup and Fireman Meagel
of the construction train; "Old John
Ullbright, gateman, and Peter Schwartz
towerman at the crossing. "Old John
; was indicted last January for allege
! carelessness when the freightful acc
, dent of Jan. IA occurred at his crossing
;. Both the gateman and the towerma
were in what is known as the groun
house by the stove when the construt
! ton train came down the track.