The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-01-05
MANGLED IN A WRECK.
HORROR Ma CHICAGO STREET
CAR.
-Four Passengers Killed and Fourteen Bad
iy Wonnded-Run Down by n Fort Wayne
Engine -- The Watch,nen Not at Their
posts-Six Arrests Made.
Death in the Darkness.


Four people were Killed and more
than twice that number injured early
Thursday morning by the collision of n
Fort Wayne train with crowded street
car of the Ch. .cago City Railway at the
41th street and Stewart avenue cross
ing. The train which wrought such
great disaster was made up Of tlice
cars containing laborers on their way
10 Cole hour The dead aye: John
Elaha, crushed to death; Archibald Me-
Andrews, instantly killed: unindenti-
fled woman. supposed 10 be Mrs. VI.
Carson, address unknown: unknown
man, horribly mangle1.
The accident occurred at G:Ih o'clo k,
when the street ears We're crowd q with
workmen. Gar 1877 so:ns east on Forty
seventh street hai at least fifty pas
scngers 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 ili-fatcd
car sat tie wOrkmcn smosin. Their ciav
pipes AMI chatting pleasantly, wholly
unmindful of their impending danger.
All at once there was a wild shrek Of
the engine. changing % the belt. anu Il
construction train running at Il high
| rate cf speed crashed into the car, Great
ing fearful havoc. The: rs no previ
| Gus ringing OF the bell. no con ,lcuous
light on the eng ne which was moving
ba kwarI, and the gatcman and tow T.
| man at the crossing had failed wholly to
do their duty. Neither was at his post.
The wie * occurred while it was still
| t. o dark for the driver or conductor Of
| tn. street ear To SEE 100 feet down the
| ira k. No one expected the cons'rLc-
| ton train, and the first known of the
| danger was when the engine shrieked
! and the crash came. An instant later
| the killed and w.undei We're strewn
| along the frozen ground, the street car
| was Il complete wreck and the ira II
| rushed hy. leaving a frightfui SC ne Of
| death and confusion behind. The horses
broke loose from the ear and ran AVA.
| Fairly r scrS in the Hcinty rushed to
! the rescue OF the passengers, and the
| alarm was turned into all the neighbor-
| iny police stations. Three hundred
| yard, south OF the trosSiny the train
| ca.Ic to Il standsti!l, and the hall Il
| hun ired woIkmcn who were on board
en- roate TO wo-k down the track hnr
ricd TO the assistance of the in rt"d.
| Widest Confusion Hri.ueG.
! Wild confusion Ieigned for the first
| few minutes Those who hal come to
! the work CT rescue ctNlu near !htt put-
ful cries o. the wounded and see the
| body of one dead man. Where 70 he
| gin was a question which uZzi"d them.
| Five police patrol wagons arrived on
the scene soon and pei cencn tooA
| charge Of til" work.
At first lttl" attention was d.r.ctc
TO the train which had done the damage,
| but after those about the ear had lee II
pickle up ii Was found that the to e5
| o. two men We're under the tcndc:
| These We're recovered.
Ih" police At on e place six persons
! unie, arrest Thes" are Conductor
! Bernard o. onnor and Driver Patrick
| Stanlcv. who We're on the street car:
| Engineer Ross"up and Fireman MeaSer.
| Of the const! uction tram: old John
| tlibright. gateman and Peter S hwartz,
towerman at the crossing. ola Ohm
| was indicted last Jan iarr 20" alsgej
| care cSsness when the freq tlul a e.
| cent OF Jan. II occurred at his crossing, :,
| Both the -,at"man and the tGwerI:al
| were in what is known as the rround
house 10y the stove when the ,ons.ruc-
tion train came down the track.