The Forrest City times., 1897-07-02

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 ,cVc the sufferers. The two hotels in west Vhlcago were turned into hos pitai7' and able physicians wore promptly in attendance.
 lhe sections following those which met disaster-6, :, s and 9-carrv;ng S,o"o people, were delayed upward of three hours. Finally the north track was cleared. and they were enabled ,o proceed
 As soon as the wreck was reported to the local offices of the Chicapo .S northwestern, Supt. J. c. Stewart of the 6alena division ordered A special tram and proceeded to the scene ol the accident. Other officials ulspatched mess ITS for the com duetors, and Ass 1t Superintendent w. A. Gardner a. d | corps of surgaops left immediately for West Chica0o'
 Owing to the crush caused by the rush of Christian Endeavor business. all schedules were abandoned. and ttains were sent out as fast as filled. Nine sections left the Northwestern depot at intervals of l5 minutes. begiu- hihg at l0:30, to say nothing of trans sent out earlier in the even ins Sections numbers 1, and got through West Chicago safely. section was made up of baggage ear, day coach, and seven sleepers con taining 400 passengers Assistant General Superintendent stardner said he could give no tangible reason yet as to the cause of the acci. dent.
 The road is run on semaphore block system all the way to Turney Junction." said Mir Gardner. This DOCKS train every 1,60O feet, and, in addition, we were us- Ing what we call the positive block system. This consisted in the operators at Haywood Wheaton and Turner running the trains by wire and keeping close tab with the dispatch CTS as the time each passed station.
 Then the dispatcher regulated the speed and distance between trains. Of course. he was compelled to rely en- ttreiy on the accuracy of the time checking done by the operators at the stations named, and unless one of these made mistake and transmitted the wrong check time, either to the next station or to the dispatcher can not imagine what could have caused the wreck.
 We had taken every possibly precau- ton to guard against delay and ac- cident, and, as said, worked the posi- | h
 semaphore system"
 Mrs. Gooding and her husband had been visiting their son, Attorney J. M. Gooding, of Fond du Lac, Wis, and took advantage of the excursion rates to return to their home at Austin, Nev. The Yandalia Wreck.
 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, sJu1y l-Train No. Il, on the Vandalia road, which left this city at seven o'clock Tuesday evening, containing a large number of Christian Endeavorers, collided with | train No. 6, bound east, from St. Louis, al s:20, near Vandalia. J. J. Turner, general manager of the Vandalia, tele- graphed the following statement to this city at ? a. m.:
 KILLED. k. T. sherman mail clerk on No 6. Indian | apos
 " P Coon, baggagemaster, Indianapolis, on To IL
 FATALLY INJURED. | Samuel Parkinson. mail clerk of Columbus, O. crushed in the wreck
 | Prank Owens. fireman, of Terre Haute; mangled under the engine. Train No II left Indianapolis in two sections on account of the heavy San Francisco travel occasioned by the | Christian Endeavor meeting. Orders were given to meet No. 6, the east ! bound passenger train, at Vandalia these two trains being due to meet at that place about 1:30 a. m. At three o'clock further information was received which confirmed the first report of the accident. | It seems from the best information obtainable that the west-bound train | pulled out of Vandalia without wait ing for the train from St. Louis. The headlight of the west-bound engine was extinguished for some time before the crash came.
 1 Horace Kerns, of this city, was con- ductor of train No. II, acd Tom Mama | fec of Terre Haute, was the engineer. None of the passengers on either train were injured.
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