The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-13
ANOTHER COLLISION.
Five People Killed and Three
Fatally Injured.
A PICNIC PARTY FROM CHICAGO
These Kf1leA were Crowded % SAe
Platforms Of q Long Exeexsfon
frain from Schiller Park

Cnsugs. July n-F~s psrseAs were
killed, three fatally injured and Scors
seriously hurt In . wreck o1 the Wlscoz-
sir Cezx-gl railroad tonsghr
The following people were killed and IN
5ured. Dezi-Ehzrles Samuel. Fred Ker-
tel. Frank Koch. Mary ArHcld. Lena HUI
bert InJured-Pztrick Collins leg mash
ed; Edward Kelly. legs broken
Other Injured were. e. < Alden, ssft
arm ard wrist cat; Peter Conner. sntsr-
aazly intarsd. Mrs James Pagan. slsg1f-
IL injured. Fred Grese.. internally In
tgred. - Heater. conductor Of sxcursson
train. badly bruised &n1 leg eat: Gertrude
Ysxan. baby cut. Mrs Bessie Cowing
ba-x hurt The sxcu-ssonIsts we're CHI
caEo people.
After an Investigation. the police ar
rested the following On . charge 81 c-tna-
lnsl carelessness. They are locked - =.
Harlem. James Grim. eEstnssr az excur-
sion train. william Dol2n. fireman On
same engine. Nike ODoan-I. engineer cf
switch engine. drawing freight train.
James aeehAn. fireman or same engine:
J. v. knisxsrn. operator. who Ii alleged
TO have caused the fatality
The chssf blanse for The accident 10 Laid
On Knisxer7. who. IL - charged. careless
ly walked away without throwing 5z *
the switch 50 the picnsc train could pass
on the main track. James Grim was ths
engineer Of the passenger and James Do
Ian Was his fireman Neither was injured
Mike osDoaneil. engineer Of one OF shs
freight engines. was In his cab with Fire
man James MeehaR 81 the time Of the
collision, and they. too. iesped early
enough 20 escape s.rfoas iat1ry. They
were cat q little ty flying spsinsers-
The wrecked train wes the first sec
ton OF O picnic train which had besn
bed ~ Schiller PARK about twelve miles
west from he city. The picnic was he'd
under che auspices Of the 4ncienf Ore
United Wcfkmsn and fully sfso people
were IN attendance. The frsz section
consisted Of thirteen ears anl left the
park shortly after O'Clock for the re-
turn 70 the city. AL the cars were dense
" crowded and many people were stand
ing on the platforms.
When the train reached Aitenhein cezn-
ctsry. ten miles from the city. !; ran into
an open switch II front Of the depot
The picnic train was Dot running 81 over
ten miles an hour and when II nearza
Afteuhe.-n the sw. echxn21 a. the depot
opened a switch 20 transfer freight
train and did not close II in time 10 pre-
vent the picnic train from cashing upon
a siding. where a train u empty coaches
were standing waiting for clear track L.
order that X might go 10 the picnic
grounds. The train did Dot strike The
ernpties On the siding with great force sGd
IN fact the engine OF the picnic train was
not damaged beyond q broken plot TIE
force % rfle collision was sufficient. how
aver. 70 Jam the first coach Up asains. the
baggage car IN such q way as TO pArt.-
ally telescope 70
The people who we're killed were all
standing on the platform OF the first
coach and their lives were crushed out by
the rear end OF the baggage car. All Of
the serinosly injured were In the first car
and none Of the passengers IN the other
cars were badly injured, although some
OF them were bruised By being thrown
against seats and 20 the 1oe-. The off,
Gals Of the road did not notify the city
police OF the accident for three hours and
none OF the victims were brought 70 this
city for over four hours after the accident