The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-01
Christian Eadeayorers Victims Of
Two Train Wrecks.
THREE KILLED OUTRIGHT AND 80
INJURED AT WEST CHICAGO.
Rear End Collision of Special Sections
Sent Out Is Minutes Apart-Delegates
to San Francisco Convention Meet With
Terrible Disaster at the Start-List of
MangIed Dead and Fatally Wounded.

Chicago, June 30.-Three persons were
| killed outright and about twenty or
| thirty persons injured in rear end
railroad at 1.45 O'Clock this morning at
West Chicago, thirty miles out of Chicago
on the Galena division.
The dead: John Godding and Mrs. R.
Shipman, Appleton, Wis; unidentified,
man riding between the engine and bag
gage car. supposed to be tramp.
| The injured: Mrs. M. M. Baird,
Neenah, Wis.,; Mrs. Daisy Blackwood,
Depree, Wis; Miss A. e. Fifer, Green
Bay, Wis. injured about the head; W.
H. Finney, Oconto, Wis.,; Mrs. Algernon
Cabin, Appleton, Wis; W. d. Gibson,
Appleton, Wis; Raymond Gibson, five
years old, a son Of the foregoing; Miss
Irene MeAllister, Oconto, Wis.,; Miss
Amelia Mckay, fracture of left arm Mrs.
S. B. Marsh, Appleton, Wis: Mrs. Nc
Kay; W. NJ. Mickelstetter, Seymour,
Wis. DR.. E. A.. Miller, Clintonville,
Wis; S. A. Russell and wife, Appleton
Wis. Mr.. and Mrs. Ripley, Fond Du
Lac, Wis; Mr.. Ripley seriously; Miss G.
E. Shipman and Miss S. c. Shipman,
Appleton, Wis. Michael ST. Letter, ankle
broken and internally injured; Mrs. St.
Letter, back sprained and internally in
jured; Prof Williams, Fond Du Lac,
Wis, arm and wrist injured; Charles
Courtney, Belevedier, H., engineer of
section five, fatally injured.
The victims of the collision were
Christian Endeavor delegates who left
Chicago last nighten route for the great
convention in San Francisco. The collid-
ing trains were sections number4 and of
Christian, Endeavor special sent out in
nine sections beginning at 1890 p. m.
Section five ran into section four, which
lett Chicago fifteen minutes ahead lit.
Section four carried the Wisconsin dele
cation, nearly five hundred strong, and
in the rear sleeper were people from Fond
Du Lac, Greeenbay, Appleton and other
Wisconsin points.
The officials of the Northwestern rail
road tonight mRke the following state.
ment concerning the accident which oc-
CURED on their road at West Chicago early
this morning:
"There were only two sleepers dam
aged. They were the Coldspring and Gar
rison, conveying delegates from Wiscon-
sin ito the Christian Endeaver conven.
ton at San Francisco. Three people were
killed outright and 10 injured. !. The in
jured have all been taken to ST. Luke S
hospital, and the physicians iii eatten.
dance say they will all recover. The ac-
cident occasioned no detention to the nu-
merous special trains carrying Christian
Endeayor people from the East" ~
Engineer Courtney declares the signal
displayed denoted clear track. He also
says that he was running carefully and
that there was ample time to stop his
train after he had sighted the train in
front, but for some reason or other the
airbrakes refused to work. AS they were
in good order at Dixon, five miles back,
he believes that tramps Intentionally OF
| accidentally tempered with them.
Naturalization papers recently taken
out in New York showed the name of the
tramp killed to be Rode, a native of Ger
many. He was about As years old.