The herald., 1896-01-18
KILLED IN CAR COLLISIONS
A Runaway Boxcar Telescopes
Train
FIFTEEN PEOPLE ARE HURT
New York Car Cleaners Struck by
an Engine
FIFTEEN PEOPLE ARE HUR7
Cars and Engines Piled Up on the Track Near
Hanford and the Train Hands
are Injured
Associated Press speclal Wire.

Associated Press Specal Wire,
VICTOR, COL, Jan. IA frightful acei-
dent occurred on the Midland Terminal
railroad. The train was en- route to Den.
yer and Colorado Springs and was just
above the city limits of Victor. Fifteen
passengers were injured, six seriously, one
or two of whom will probably die. The
4:2O p. m. train for Colorado Springs was
backing out of the main track onto the
switch and reached point on the main
track in the cut when it was met by an
empty runaway box car, which broke loose
near Independence station about three
fourths of a mile above where the collision
occurred. 1t struck the first coach of the
passenger train with terrific force and
threw the latter from the track. Both box
car and coach were telescoped for about
15 feet.
The list of injured is as follows: Mrs. f.
II. Lightfoot, Jewel City, Kas., slightly; D..
Z. Penard, bruised on head and left arm
b. G. Cluff, 2l3 Huerfan street, Colorado
Springs, leg and body badly injured: o. A.
Alexander. Colorado City, civil engineer
Midland Terminal railroad, seriously and
probably fatally injured: Mr.. Garretson,
Denver, severely, bruised on head aud
body;. L. j. kellam. Topeka, Kas., seri-
ously bruised about head; w. A. L, Thomp-
son, Topeka, Kas., injured in back and
legs; Mrs. ID. G. MGregor, Victor, Col,
badly cut in face; d. w. Partridge. cut on
head and neck, injuries not serious; E. V.
Bogart, cut in head; Robert Dawson, Colo
RADIO Springs, bad cut on head; DR.. S. NJ.
Morrison, Colorado Springs, cut on he ad.
There are ten others who received slight
injuries. All of the injured people are
quartered ct the Hotel Victor.
LOOKED THE WRONG WAY
NEW YORK, an. ia light engine ran
into crowd of car cleaners walking on the
New York. New Haven and Hartford rail-
road at Forty-second street today, killing
two women and injuring two other women
ana an men so badly they will probably die.
The dead are:
Lizzie Becker, SO years old.
Della Mahan, SO.
Injured: Marie Druff, 65. internal in
Jury; Maggie Tracey, 50, right leg cut Oft
Louis Yender, both legs broken. At the
point where the accident occurred the road
runs through cut, on the west side of
which there is high embankment and on
tne east side high stone wall, on top of
which there is an iron railing. The car
cleaners were on their way to the yards
when the Chatham express came along. and
they stepped aside to let it pass. The light
engine coming up the north-bound track
was unobserved. The Becker and Mahan
women were ground under the wheels, and
the others thrown against the stone wall.
A FREIGHT WRECK
HANFoRD, CAL, Jan. 17.-Freight train
No. 81, G. w. Croy conduc.or,was wrecked
at Remney Switch, near this city, at 10
o'clock last night. The train consisted of
forty-ive loaded cars, drawn by two ELI
gines, and the smash up was the greatest
in the annals OF railroading in this county.
Fifteen cars and two engines were wrecked
and several of the cars were literally torn
to fragments. Fireman Kennedy was
badly scalded, but not fatally. Engineer
George Hutchinson had leg fractured
and Fireman George Hilderbrand was
slightly injured. 1t will take till Sunday
to clear up the track.