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
sengers and Seriously iniur'nI Eight
Others--How the Accident Happened

CHICAGO, July 10, - FOrty-nlnth
street, at the crossing of the Grand
Trunk railroad, has been the scene of
another accident whereby lives were
lost and many people injured, A Hal
sted street horse car was run into and
hurled thirty feet to one side. 1t was
filed with men and women, forty-six
passengers being on board. The dead
are:
CHARLES PERKINS.
-- DILLON, a plumber,
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN
The injured:
WILLIAM BuuLMAN, $3.50 Union avenue.
left leg broken and internally injured, may
die
Mrs. SANpERsoN 1896 South Green street
head and body bruised.
J. c. SMITH, Sixty first street and Went
worth avenue; internally injured and skull
fractured, may die
MRs. CELIA MITCuELL. 1921 Emerald ave
nue.; bruised about the body
Mrs. s, A. LACE, 514i Union avenue;
bruised about the head AMI body
Mr.. VANDERBERG, 554l Aberdeen street;
head and body bruised
FRANK NANDERBERG, 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 Halstcd street car
of the open make, was crowded, and
men were standing on the foot-boards.
| II was in charge of Conductor Frank
Barnett and Driver Charles Statuecker
| At Forty-ninth street is u network of
tracks, and the crossing has always
been regarded as dangerous one. A
FEC, FrI,t
| passed, and the tower-man, George
/ Barnett, had raised the gates This
was taken as "a signal that the way
was clear, and StatuccKer 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
a 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 car was already on the
tracks and the passenger train was
only few feet distant 1t was run
ming at high rate of speed, it is said,
/ and crashed into the side of the car.
! 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 rs 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 latter's 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