The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-09-28
BIG FOUR HORROR.
Disastrous Wreck Near Kankakee, Ill., Eight Persons Killed Outright and Many Others Injured,

Dbhstrous wreck Near hankakee, Ill.,.
 Eight Persons Killed Outright and Many
 Others Injured.
 MANTENo, H., Sept 20.-The second section. of the Big Four express No. 4, southbound, crashed into the rear of the first section at 9:20 o'clock last night Eight persons are known to have been killed and twenty severely injured, and it is probable that some bodies are buried under the wreck
 The engine of the second section ran clear through one sleeper and two coaches.
 The first section carried one Ohio & Mississippi sleeper for Louisville, one Ohio & Mississippi chair car for Greens burg, Ind, five day coaches and bag gage and express cars. It had run to a point three miles south of Manteno when local train, which was preced. ing it, slowed up and flagman was sent back to intercept it. The engineer of the first section obeyed the signal and drew his train to standstill. The fagman of the first section in turn started to the rear, but the second sec tion was following so closely that he had gone but a few yards when around sharp curve the headlight of the sec ond section appeared. The first sec tion was now at standstill and the second section had not lessened it's speed of thirty-five miles an hour. The curve was partly responsible for this.
 The tlagman jumped down the steep embankment just in time to save him. self from death. The engineer, as his locomotive rounded the curve, reversed his engine. Seeing the hopelessness of any attempt to check the speed of his train in so short a distance, he jumped down the ernbankment and his fireman followed him.
 The crash came then and the loco motive drove ahead with mighty force into the heavy sleeping car, smashing the frame work of Its rear end to kind- ling wood. The sleeping car was in turn driven into the day coach next forward, which gave way more com pletely, its timbers being lighter. This coach and the coach just forward of it were almost completely demolished,
 All of the three cars were crowded with people, more than half of those in the sleeper having retired for the night. The passengers were thrown from their berths and from their seats. Some were crushed under beams and between the broken, grinding timbers of the wrecked cars.
 As soon as possible after the collision the uninjured passengers and the train crews went to the work of rescue. People from farm houses in the vicinity heard the crash and twenty men were on the scene inside of half an hour. They at once began helping the unin- jured passengers and the train crews in the work of the rescue. Having got the living out of the death trap the rescuers went back and brought out four ghastly bodies, two of whom were women.
 From the two crushed coaches tho rescuers carried or helped out sixty people, two of whom were dead One poor fellow had been crushed under seat that had been torn loose and flung on his head He had been trampled under foot. The other body was found sitting in seat apparently uninJured.
 As the wounded were taken from the wreck they were taken 10 Manoto or made comforta ble on the ground and looked after by the corps of physicians from Kankakee, who had arrived by special train. Soon after special was made up of the train from Kankakee and the injured were placed thereon. The removal was attended by screams and groans from the more seriously hurt.
 The passengers in the rear train es- capped with nothing more than a severe shaking up Many of them hurried forward to assist in the work of rescue.
 The fault seems to lay with the en- gineer of the second section of the Washington express train, as the first section train hands claim to have