The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-07-01
ms In COLLISION.
-iaey Were Carrying Christian En-
delvor Excursionists.
THREE KILLED AND THIRTY HURT
On Northwestern; Two Killed, Two
Fatally Injured on Vandalia.
THE ENGINEER MAS TO BLAME.
Ran by n Signal which Showed n
Train In Front of Him-He
Was Badly Hurt.
THE ENGINEER MAS TO BLAME.

Chicago June 3O.--Three persons were
Killed outright and twenty or thirty in
jurcd in a rear-end collision on tho Chi
cago and Northwestern road at l2:45 this
morning at West Chicago, thirty miles out
of Chicago on tho Galena division.
The dead-Mw. X. shlpman, Appleton.
Wis.
John Cooling, Appleton. Wis.
Unknown tramp. who was riding on the
front end of the baggage car.
The injurcdLWillam Michaolsetter. Sey-
mour, Wis, back hurt; Mrs william
Michaelsetter, Seymour, Wis, body bruised;
Miss Sarah shipman. Appleton, WIS., lip
badly cut and other parts of face bruised;
Michael Courtney engineer, Bclvidere, H..
two ribs fractured, right leg badly lacer-
ated, will recover; L. A. Williams, Fond Du
Lac. chest badly bruised and right ankle
spralned DR.. Il. A. Miller, Clintonvillc.
Wis, right ankle sprained; W. II. Finney.
Clntonvillo, WIS. left arm sprained and
forehead badly bruised Ms. II. Mcintosh,
Fond Du Lac, Wis, right side bruised;
Miss A. L. McAllister of Comic, Wis, con-
tusions on forehead and nose; Mary Baird
Needham, Wis, badly bruised on left side
OF face; Mrs s. A. Russell, Appleton. back
seriously hurt; Amelia Mckay, Appleton,
Wis. left arm fractured and lacerated;
Mrs, w. D. Gibson. Appleton, right side OF
chest hurt and one hip spralned; S. u.
Merseh, Appleton. Wis. left wrist broken
and otherwise injured; W. D. Gibson, APP
pleton. Wis. slight scalp wound; Mrs. A.
e. Pfeffer, Needha. Wis, slight bruises
C. Z. Ripley, Fond Du Lac. Wis. face and
hands slightly cut; Mrs. c. f. Shipley,
Fond Du Lac Wis, left arm sprained; Mrs.
Algernon Galpin. Appleton, Wis, slight
bruises; Miss Daisy Blackwced. Depere,
Wis.
The victims OF the collision were Chris
tian Enieavor delegates, who left Chicago
last night en- route for tho great conyen-
ton in san Francisco. The colliding trains
We're sections No. 4 and Of Christian
Endeayor special sent out In nine sections.
Section No ran into section No. t. which
left Chicago fifteen minutes ahead of It.
Section No, 4 carried the Wisconsin dele
gates nearly 500 strong. and In the rear
sleeper were people from Fond Du Lac
Green Bay, Appleton and other Wisconsin
cities. Section No. had come to a stop
just out Of West Chicago. whore the Free
port line DIVORCES from the main line Sec
tion No. , came up behind at great speed
and the shock of the collision was terrific |
Tbs passengers in the Two rear sleepers of |
section No. were all in their borths They
received no warning, and those not Killed |
outright awoke to find themselves jammed |
in the wreckage.
Passengers ON both trains hastoued to the |
spot and began the work Of rescue One of |
the first OF the injured taken out was En-
gineer Charles Coney OF section No. D. He |
stuck 10 his post like hero and Is so &C. (
.Fiously injured that he can not live.
- The body OF an unidentified man. sup |
posed 10 be a tramp, was found between |
the baggage car and tho engine. The man |
had been crushed to death.
The engine of section 3 was totally |
wrecked.a Strange to say. the rear sleeper |
of section No. 4 was not the one to suffer
most. 1t was driven With terrific force
upon the second sleeper, and such was it's
impetus that II crashed through II as II IL |
had been cardboard box and reduced II to
a mass of wreckage. The passengers in the
second sleeper were therefore the ones TO
suffer most and It, was in 1t that NEST of
the victims We're hurt. Mrs. Shipman and
Mrs. Gooding were both In this sleeper.
Men and women could be seen struggling
TO extricate themselves from The wreckagc.
Others pinned down by some crushing
weight were crying for help. Here and
there was an arm or leg protruding from
the debris
pathetic scene was the rescue of the
two daughters of Mrs. Shipman of Apple
ton. Tho roscucrs were attracted TO Them
by their cries They were unable to extri-
cate themselves and. though hurt refused
assistance, begging that their mother be
first helped. Mrs. Shipman was found
crushed under a part of the roof. and life
was extinct when she wac taken out II
is STRANGE that the two daughters escaped
win comparatlyc1y slight iniuri,s. while
tho mo,bsr close hy. met instant death.
Mrs Iobn Cooling NJ Appleton wis was
,,roha,I,, instontiv t,,ied Tho ,orco of
~ noliisjon crushed topetber the nartit,ons
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