The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-01-04

CHICAGO. Dec 29.-FoUr were killed
and twice that numbe, injured this morn
Ing by the collision of u street car and
locomotive ct Forty.seventh-st. and
Stewart-ave The street car was crowded
and was crossing the Fort Wayne railway
tracks when a Fort WAYNE train crashed
into 1t so suddenly that the occupants had
no time to escape. The engineer of the
train and the wstchmen at the crossing,
of which there was two, one on the tracks
and the other in the signal tower, are I'M
der arrest. The list of the victims follows:
The Dead.
GEORGE BLAKA. Fift,eth and Loomis-sts.;
died in a saloon near the scene just after the
accident
ARCHIBALD MeANDREWS, found under
the tender OF the engine.
UNKNOWN Man found near body of first
victim. under the tender of the engine.
UNKNOWN WOMAN. died on the way to
the Mercy hospital. supposed to be Mrs Car
son, as card tearing that name was found IN
her pocket.
MINNIE KUHLEA, 4726 Prover't., scalp and
tother injuries.
PATRick O'NErI. e37 FOrtyseventh-st..
HENRY GRuBER 44i7 GOod.st.. scalp wounds
and internal lures.
HEi-EN CoNwAY. 44i5 Dearborn-st.. internal
~ injured: taken to Mercy hospital.
joins BRESKER, 1870 EIftieth-st. injuries on
head and body.
WILLIAM KIsERS. Thirty-ninth-st and Ash
land. lett Lee broken.
J. J. COSTELLO. 423s Wentw Orth-ave. severe
bodily injuries.
Il. THOMAS RIORDAN, Forty second and
Stste-sts., left leg broken.
PATRICK STANLEY. driver of street car, col
larbOne broken.
MIcHEAI COIN, z235 Ashland-ave.. should
GEORGE CLARK, fireman, seriously hurt su-
per6cially.
JOSEPH WILLIAMS. Gas Union-ave back in
iured.
The Car damned.
The accident happened when the street
car traffic was at it's heaviest and the cars
were crowded TO the doorways with peo-
pie standing and sitting. Car No. 2l6
had, like ali the others, q very heavy COM
plement OF passengers. II was going east
on FOrty-seventh- st. TO Safest, where 1t
was to be hitched to grip car, which was
TO bring to the business center of the
city.
As 1t approached the tracks of the
Pitisburg. Fort Wayne q Chicago railway
company. at tHe junction of Forty
seventh-st. and Stewart-ave., az engine
belonging 20 that company came backing
down the tracks toward the crossing at
= rate OF about fifteen miles an hour,
She railway people say. For some rea-
son the occupants or the engine
cab did not see the car approaching the
crossing and on account of a heavy coat
ing of frost on the windows OF the car the
passengers did not see the engine bearing
down upon them. In an instant the en-
CINE struck the car and passed on, leaving
a trail of dead and injured people. The
car was dragged for a distance of about
$50 yards and at every foot OF the distance
some injury was added 10 those inflicted
when the engine first struck the car.
The horses became detached IRON the car
and ran away uninjured.
Confusion Reigns.
The cries of the injured instantly at
fTseted the attention Of the people In the
neighboring houses and the residents
hurried out to join the persons who had
seen the accident and had FASTENED to the
aid OF the injured ones. The widest con-
fusion reigned for the first few minutes
Those who had come to the work of res
cue could hear the pitiful cries OF wounded
and see the body of one dead man.
George Blska was the first one taken
from the wreckage. He WAS carried to a
saloon in the vicinity, but died almost as
soon as he reached there. The other
wounded were then picked up by tho
willing rescuers and were carried into the
houses At about the time the injured
had all been assisted out OF the wreckage
five police patrol wagons arrived and the
policemen assumed charge of the work.
Caring for the Injured.
The most severely injured person. a
woman supposed 10 be Mrs. Carson, was
et once put into one OF the police wagons
and started Tor Mercy hospital. Before
the wagon had gone far on its Journey the
woman died. and the destination was
changed to the county morgue.
Little attention vas directed al first to
the Train which had done the damage.
but after those about the car had been
picked up il was found tha, the bodies of
two men were under the engine. These
were recovered and laid out nsar where
they met death. In the sxcitment of the
moment no one could be found to identity
them.
Arrests Made.
AS soon "a the police arrived on the
scene four persons we're placed under
arrest These are Conductor O'Con-
nor and Driver Stailsy. who were on the
street car, and Engineer ROsseuD and Fire
man Meagsr OF the engine which did the
damage. The officers turned their atten-
ton TO the smplOyes of the railroad who
are responsib . for guarding the crossing.
There are two OF them, Peter Schwartz.
who IL in the tower the crossing and
John Albright. who guards the tracks
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. Albright was
the Waterman employed in the same work
at thst crossing several months ago when
a similar accident resulted in two persons
deaths and she injury of others.