Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-07-20
SLAUGHTER GOES ON
GRADE CROSSING MURDERS IN
CHICAGO,
Passenger Train Crashes Into a Heavy
Loaded street Car, killing Four Pas
scngers and Seriously njurinI Eight
Others--How the Accident Happened.

| CHICAGO, July 10. - Forty-nintl
street, at the crossing OF the Grand
Trunk railroad, has been the scene ot
another accident whereby lives were
lost and many people injured. A Hal
sted street horse ear was run into ano
hurled thirty feet TO one side. II was
filled with men aud women, forty-siN
passengers being on board. The dead
| are:
! CHARLES PERKINS.
--- DILLON plumber.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN.
| UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN
The injured:
WILLIAM BunLMAN, 5S5S Union avenue
lett leg broken and internally injured. may
| die.
Mrs SANpsRsoS, 1886 South Green street
head and body bruised
J. Z. SMITH, Sixty first street and Went
worth avenue; internally injured and skull
fractured may die.
MRs, CELIA MITCHELL, 5S2l Emerald ave
nue.; bruised about the body
MRS. s, A. LACE, 5I4i Union avenue
bruised about the head ami body.
MR.. NANDERBERG, 554I Aberdeen street
head and body bruised.
FRANK NASDERBERG, her Swear old son
head cut and body bruised
| JENNIE BLAKELY, $50 Emerald avenue;
head and shoulders bruised
All of the injured were removed To
| their homes.
| The south bound Halsted street car,
of the open make, was crowded, and
men were standing on the foot boards.
1T was in charge of Conductor Frank
Barnett and Driver Charles Statuecker.
| At Forty-ninth street is network OF
tracks, and the crossing has always
been regarded as dangerous one A
long freight tram going west had Just
passed, and the tower-man, George
Barnett, had raised the gates This
was taken as a signal that the way
was clear, and StatuecKer whipped up
| his horses as he started TO drive across
the tracks. Previously, however, Con.
ductor Barnett had gone ahead and,
not seeing the approaching passenger
train because of the freight, he mo,
toned his driver to go ahead.
Barnett, in the watch tower, saw
the passenger train and realized that
collision was imminent. Yet, as he
says, he could do nothing. He at once
lowered the gates, but he was too late,
for the street ear was already on the
tracks and the passenger train was
only a few feet distant. 1t was run
ming at high rate of speed, it is said,
and crashed into the side of the ear
The latter was turned around and
thrown thirty feet through the air.
Few of the passengers had any warn
ing of the accident. Those on the foot.
board nearest the passenger train saw
it coming and jumped in time to save
themselves. But the majority of those
on board were carried with the de-
molished car and fell to the ground
together, some with badly bruised
bodies and others dead.
The ear, broken into many pieces,
buried those who had been riding in
it, and as the passenger train plunged
ahead there were many cries of pain
and agony to be heard. Perkins and
Dillon were frightfully mangled. A
piece of timber had been forced down
the latters throat, breaking his Jaws
There were also two women killed,
but nothing on them would indicate
their names. The dead were at once
taken to the county morgue and the
injured were placed in carriages and
driven away.