The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-01

were killed outright and about ~ or y
persons injured in a rear end collision
n the Chicago & Northwestern road
at 1:45 this morning at West Chicago
80 miles out of Chicago.
The dead:
Mrs. r. Shipman, Appleton, Wis.
Mrs. John Cooling. Austin, New.
Unknown tramp, who was riding on
the front end of the baggage car.
Injured:
William Mdchelstetter of Seymour
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 c. e. Shipman. Appleton, Wis;
lip cut and face bruised.
Michael Courtney, engineer, Belvidere,
Ill: tive ribs fractured, right leg badly
lacerated; viii recover.
l. A. Williams, Fond du Lac, Wis. I;
chest badly bruised and right ankle
sorained.
Dr. Z. A. Miller CHntonville. Wis;
right ankle sprained.
w H Finney. ClintonVille, WIS.,;
eff arm sprained and head bruised
Mrs. VI. D.. Mcintyre, Fon du Lac,
Wis: right side bruised.
Miss A l. McAllister, OcOnto, Wis;
Commissions of the face
Mary Baird, Neenah. Wis; badly
bruised on left side Of face.
Mrs. S. A. Russell. Appleton, Wis;
back seriously hurt.
Amelia Mckay, Appleton, Wis; left
arm fractured and lacerated.
Mrs. w. D. Gibson. Appleton, Wis;
right side Of chest hurt and one hip
sprained.
5. IS. Mersch, Appleton. Wis. left
wrist broken and otherwise injured.
w. D. Gibson, Appleton, Wis; slight
scalp wound.
Mrs. \. f. Pfeiffer, Neenah, Wis;
slight bruises.
c. f. Ripley, Fon du Lac, Wis; left
arm sprained.
Mrs. Algimon Gilpin, Appleton, Wis;
Miss Daisy Blackw9od. -BePere, Wis.
The colliding trains were sections
No. ! and >. Christian Endeavorer
specials sent out in nine sections, be-
ginning at 1880 D. m.
Section ran into section 4, which
left Chicago l. minutes ahead of it.
Section No. carried the Wisconsin
delegates. nearly 500 strong. and = the
car sleeper were people from FOn du
Lac Green Bay. Appleton and other
Wisconsin cities.
Section No. had come to a stcc
Just out of West Chicago. where the
Freep0rt line. DIVORCES from the main
line Section No. came up behind at
great speed and the shock of the col
lision was terrific.
The passengers in the two rear sleep
ers of section No. 4 were in their berths
and most Of them were asleep They
received no warning, and those not
killed outright aWoke 10 find them
selves jammed in the Wreckage. Pas
SengerS on both trains began the work
of rescue. one of the first of the in
jured taken out was Engineer Charles
Courtney of section No. ,. He had
stuck to his post and was seriously
injured The engine OF section No. ,
struck the rear sleeper Of section No. 4
with terrific force. The engine was
totally wrecked.
Strange TO say. the rear sleeper of
section No was not one TO suffer
most 1t was driven with terrific force
upon the second sleeper. and such was
its impetus that it crushed through it
as If il had been A card box and re-
duced 1t TO a mass of wreckage. The
in the second sleeper were,
therefore. the ones to suffer most. and
il was in il that most of the victims
were hurt. Mrs Shipman and Mrs
T.
Men and women could be seen strug-
Cling 10 eXtricate themselves from the
Wreckage. Others pinned down by /
some crushing weight were crying for
help. Here and there was an arm or
a leg protruding from the debris. 4
pathetic scene was the rescue of the
two daughters Of Mrs. Shipman of APP
pleton. The rescuers were attracted to
them by their cries. They were I'M
able to eXtricate themselves. and
though hurt, refused assistance, beg
cling that their mother be helped. Mrs |
Shipman was found crushed under a
part OF the roof. and life was extinct I
when she WAS taken out.
1t is strange that the two daughters ]
escaped with comparatively slight in /
juries while the mother, close by, met /
instant death.
Mrs. John Gooding. was probably in /
stantly killed. The force of the COLI /
sion crushed together the partitions of /
her berth and she had no possible /
chance Of escape.
Professor Leo Williams of Fond du .
Lac was found buried under pile of /
debris. and though he was unable to
sxtricate himself and it seemed as if
le must be seriously injured. he
escaped with a broken arm and a cut
wrist.
The Chicago & Northwestern officials
lid everything in their power To relieve
he sufferers. The two hotels in West
Chicago were turned into hospitals and
Ible physicians were promptly in at
enhance.
The sections following those which
net disasters. :. s and g. carrying ,
90 people were delayed upwards of
hree hours. Finally the north track
vas cleared and they were enabled to
proceed.
As soon as the wreck was reported to
he local officers of the Chicago q
northwestern, superintendent J. W.
'teWart. of the Galena division ordered
special train and proceeded to the
Gene of the accident. Other officials
dispatched messengers for the COM
'any's doctors and Assistant General
w 4. Gardner and a
erps Of surgeons left Immediately for
sest Chicago.
Owing 10 the crush caused BY the
christian Endeavor business all
chedules were abandoned and trains
-ere sent out as fast as filed. Nine
ections left The "A orthwestern depot at
ltervals of Is minutes, beginning at /
$50 TO say nothing of trains sent out
arlier in the evening. Sections Nos.
and got through West Chicago
afely.