Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-07-01
Associated Pros, pispatcn by Special Wires.

Associated Pross Dispatcn by Special Wires
Chicago. ILL.,, June 30.-Three per-
sons we're killed outright and about 20
or 30 injured in rear-end collision on
the Chicago & Northwestern railroad at
West Chicago, 30 miles uu. OF Chicago
on the Gnlena division, at II. 45 O'Clock
this morning.
The dead are: Mrs. John Godding,
Appleton, Wis. Mrs. r. Shipman,
Appleton, and an unidentified man
riding betweea tho engine and the bag
gage car. supposed to be tramp.
The injured are: Mrs. M. M. Baird,
Neenab, Wis Mrs. Daisy Blnckwood.
Depere, Wis. Miss A. E. Fifer. Green
Bay. Wis. W. II. Finney. oconto,
Via. Mrs. Algernon Galpin, Appleton;
W. d. Gibson. Appleton; Raymond
Gibson, 8 years old. son of the fore
going, Miss Irene Macallister, Ooonto;
Miss Amelia Mckay, Mrs. S. b. Marsh.
Appleton; Mrs. Mckay, W. NJ. Mick
e!ststter, Seymour, Wis. DIR. E. A.
Miller, Clintonville, Wis. S. A. Rus
sell and wife, Appleton; Mr. and Mra
Ripley. Fon du Lac. Wis. Miss Q. p.
Shipman and Miss q. Shipman, Apple
LOu M1CDHbi Dt. lJhlinrt AuTd. sots Let-
ler, Prof. Williams. Fon du Lac, and
Charles CourtLey, Belvidere, ILL.,. en-
gineer OF segtion five.
The victims OF the collision were
Chrisiiau Endeavor delegates who left
Chicago last night en- routa for the
great convention in San Francisco.
The colliding trains were sections four
and five Of Christian Endeavor special
sent out in nine sections beginning at
1870 D. IN. Section No. b ran into
eection No. q, which left Chicago ID
minutes ahead of it. Section No. 4
carried the Wisconsin delegation, nearly
| 900 strong. and in the rear sleeper were
| people from Fon du Lac, Green Bay,
| Appleton and other Wisconsin cities.
| Section No. had come to stop just
out OF West Chicago, where the Free
| part line diverges from the main line.
| Section No. 8 came up behind at great
speed. and the shock OF the collision
! was terrific.
The passengers in the last two Sleep
ers of section No. were all in their
berths. They received no warning, and
those not killed outright awolse TO find
| Themselves jammed in the wrecksge.
| Passengers on both trains hastened to
the spnt and began the work of rescue.
| One of the worst of tbe injured was
Engineer Charles Courtney of section
| No. 5. lie had stuck to his post like a
hero, and is so seriously injured that he
cannot live.
Tbs body Of an unidentified man. sup
poeed to be tramp, was found between
the baggage car and the engine. The
man had been crushed to DEATH
An immediate call for help was made
on every point within reaching dis.
tsnce. Chicago was notified and asked
to send physicians at once. and medi'
cal helr was requested from Geneva,
Wheaton and Aurora.
The engine of section No. struck
the rear sleeper OF section No. with
terrific force. The engine was totally
wrecked. Strange to say the real
sleeper of section No. was not the one
to suffer most 1t was driven with
awful force upon the section sleeper ano
such was its impetus that it crashed
through it as though it had been care
board and reduced it to mass o.
wreckage. The passengers in the seconr
sleeper were, therefore, the ones to
suffer most, and 1t was in it that mos
Of the victims were hurt Mrs. Ship
man aud Mrs. John Godding wer'
both in this sleeper.
Men and women could be seen strug
Cling to extricate themselves from thu
wreckage. Others, pinioued down hl
some crushing weight, we're crying TO
help. Hsre and there was an arm or l
leg protruding from the debris.
The Chicago & Northwestern official
did everything in their pnwer to reliev'
the suffering. The two hotels in Wes
Chicago were turned into hospitals
and able phsyicians wcro constantly il
attendance.
The section following those whicl
met disaster--6, 7. = and 8, carrying
9, 500 psopls-were delayed about thrs
hours.
indianapolis, Ind, June 20. .-Trail
No. II on the Vandalia road, which lef
this city at 7 o'clock last evening. con
tanning large number Of Christian
EndeavorerH, collided with train No
G, bound east from st. Louis, at 3. 2
o'clock near Vandalia. j. j. Turner
general manager OF the Vandalia, tele
graphed the following statement to thi
city at 2 o'clock this morning:
''Killed-R. 4. Sherman, mail clerl
/ on NO. D, lnulHuHpuliHI W. Sooh
baggapemasier, on No. IL, Indianapolis
"Fatally injured-Samuel Parkinson
mail clerk, Columbus, o., crushed il
the wreck; Frank Owens, fireman
Terre Haute, mangled under the en-
gine."
Train No. IL left indianapolis in tw
sections on account Of tho heavy Sa
Francisco travel occasioned by tn
national meeting of the Christina En-
leayor Societies. Orders were given +
meet No. &, tine eastbound passenge
train, at Vandalia. these two train
heing due to meet at that place abou
J /. 30 o'clock this morning.
At o'clock further Information wa
received. which confirmed the first RS
port of the accident. 1t seems from th
best information obtaiuable that th
westbound train pulled out of Vandali
without waiting for the train from ST
J Louis The headlight of the west
J hound train was extinguished for som
time before the crush came
Horace Kerns Of this city was con
duetor on train No. II, and Tboma
Manafee of Terre HRute was the engi
neer. None of tho passengers on eithe
train were injured.