The record-union., 1897-07-01

CHICAGO. June 30-Three persons
Were killed outright and about twenty
persons injured in a rear-end collision
on the Chicago and Northwestern Road
at 40 this morning at West Chicago,
thirty miles out of Chicago.
The dead are: Mrs. R. Shipman, APP
pletOn Miss.
John GOOding, Austin, New.
Unknown tramp who was riding on
the front end of the baggage car.
Injured: William Michelstetter, Sey-
mOur. Wis. back hurt.
Mrs. William Michelstetter, Seymour,
Wis. body bruised.
Miss Sarah Shipman Appleton, Wis,
left foot sprained and right side of
body bruised.
Miss Jessie Shipman, Appleton, Wis,
lip cut and face bruised.
Michael Courtney, engineer, Belvidere,
ILL.,, two ribs fractured; right leg badly
lacerated.
l. A. Williams, Fon du Lac, Wis,
chest badly bruised and right ankle
sprained.
DR.. e A. Miller, ClintonvilIe, Wis,
right ankle sprained.
w H. Finney, Chntonvine Wis, left
arm sprained and head bruised.
Mrs. NJ D Mcintyre, Fon du Lac,
Wis. right side bruised.
Miss A L. McAIlister, Conto, Wis,
contusiOns on face.
Mary Baird, Meenah, Wis, badly
bruised on left side Of face.
Mrs. Sarusett, Appleton, Wis, back
seriously hurt
Amelia Mckay, Appleton, Wiss, left
arm fractured and lacerated.
Mrs. W. d. Gibson, Appleton, Wis,
right side chest bruised.
S. B. Mersch Appleton, Wis, left
wrist broken and otherwise injured.
W. d. Gibson, Appleton, Wis, slight
scalp wound.
Mrs. E. A Pfeiffer, Meenah, Wis,
slight bruises.
c E. Ripley, Fon du Lac, Wis, left
arm sprained.
Mrs. A L. Gimon, Alpin, Wis, wrist
Slight bruises
Miss Daisy Blackwood, Depoy, Wis.
The colliding trains were sections Nos.
and of the Christian Endeavor.
Section . ran into section 4. which left
Chicago fifteen minutes ahead of it.
Section No, 4 carried the Wisconsin del
egates. nearly 500 strong, and in the
Lac. Greenbay. Appleton and other
Wisconsin cities.
Section No. 4 had come to a stop just
out of West Chicago Section No. )
came behind at full speed and the
shock of the collision was terrific.
The passengers in the two rear sleep
ers of section No. were all in their
berths and most of them We're asleep.
not killed outright awoke to find them
selves jammed in the wreekage. Pas
sengers on both trains began the work
of rescue. One of the first of the in
jured taken out was Engineer Court
ney of section No. ,. He had stuck
to his post and was seriously injured.
The engine of section No. 3 struck the
rear sleeper of section No. 4 with ter
rife force. The engine was totally
wrecked.
Strange to say, the rear sleeper of
section No. 4 was not the one to suf-
fer most. It was driven with terrific
force upon the second sleeper and such
was it's impetus that it crushed through
it as if it had been a card box, and
reduced it to mass OF wreckage, The
passengers in the second sleeper We're,
therefore, the ones to suffer most, and
it was in it that most of the victims
We're hurt Mrs. Shipman and John
GOoding were both in the sleeper.
Men and women could be seen strug-
Cling to eXtricate themselves from the
wreckage. Others pinned down by
some crushing weight We're crying for
help. Here and there was an arm or
q leg protruding from the debris A
pathetic scene was the rescue of the
two daughters of Mrs. Shipman of
Appleton. The rescuers We're attracted
to them by their cries. They We're un-
able to eXtricate themselves and refused
assistance, begging that their mother
by first helped. Mrs. Shipman was
found crushed under a part of the roof
and life was extinct when she was
taken out
It is strange that the two daughters
escaped with comparatively slight in
juries, while the mother, close by, met
instant death.
John Gooding was probably in
stantly killed. The force of the collision
crushed the partitions of his berth and
he had no possible chance of escape.
Professor Leo A. Williams of Fond
Du Lac was found buried under a pile
of debris, and though he was unable to