Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-08
CRUSHED CHRISTIANS.
IA Christian Endeavor EXCURSION
Train Wrecked.
Section Four of the Chicago 3 Northwest
ern Special Crashed Into by Section
Five - Three Persons KILLED
and Many Injured.

CHICAGO. July L. Three persons
were killed outright and about twenty
or thirty persons injured in the rear
end collision on the Chicago s. North
western road at 12:45 a. m. at West
Chicago, 50 miles out of Chicago. on
the Galena division.
Following is a corrected list of the
dead and injured.
Mrs. R Shipman. Appleton. Wis
Mrs. John Gooding, Austin, New.
Unknown tramp. who was riding on the front
end OF the baggage ear.
INJURED.
VIM Mickelstetter, Seymour, Wis; back
hurt
Mrs VIM. Michelstetter, Seymour, Wis;
body bruised.
Miss Sarah Shipman, Appleton, Wis; left
foot sprained ana right side Of body bruised
Miss c. E. Shipman, Appleton; lip cut and
face bruised.
Michael Courtney, engineer. Bslyidere. III
two ribs fractured. right leg badly lacerated;
will recover.
L. A. Williams, Fond tu Lac, Wis; chest
badly bruised and right ankle sprained
DR.. E. A. Miller, Clintonville Wis. right
ankle sprained.
VII Finney, Clintonville, Wis; left arm
sprained and head bruised.
Mrs NJ D. Mcintosh. Fond du Lac, Wis;
right side bruised.
Miss A. ]. McAlliSter, Ocontos WIS., coneu-
Mary Baird, Neenah, Wis; badly bruised on
left side of face.
Mrs. S A Russell Appleton, Wis; back Sc
riously 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.
S. B. MerSh, Appleton, Wis; left wriss
broken and otherwise injured
w. D. Gibson, Appleton, Wis; slight scalp
wound
bruises.
c. E. Ripley, Fond du Lac. wis; left arm
sprained.
Mrs. Algimon Galpin, Appleton, WIS., slight
bruises.
Miss Daisy Blackwood, Depere, Wis.
The victims of the collision were
Christian Endeavor delegates who left
Chicago Tuesday night en- route for the
great convention in San Francisco.
The colliding trains were sections
Nos. and of Christian Endeavor
special sent out in nine sections, be-
ginning at 1880 p. m. Section No.
ran into section No. 4, which left Chi
cago Is minutes ahead of it. Section
No. carried the Wisconsin delegates,
nearly 500 strong, and in the rear
sleeper were people from Fond du Lac,
Green Bay, Appleton and other Wis
onsin cities.
Section No. had come to stop just
out of West Chicago, where the Free
port line DIVORCES from the main line.
Section No. 5 came up behind at great
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 were asleep.
They received no warning, and those
not killed outright awoke to find them
selves jammed in the wreckage. PRssen-
gers on both trains fastened to the spot
and began the work of rescue. One
of the first of the injured taken out
was Engineer Charles Courtney of sec
ton No. 5. He had stuck to his post
like a hero, and is SO seriously injured
that he can not live.
The body of an unidentified man,
supposed to be a tramp. was found be-
tween the baggage car and the engine.
The man had been crushed to death.
An immediate call was made for help
on every point within reaching dis
to send physicians at once, and medical
help 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 rear
sleeper of section No. was not the one
to suffer most. It was driven with
frightful impact upon the second
sleeper, and such was its impetus that
it crushed through it as If it had been
card-box, and reduced it TO mass of
wrecEage. The passengers in the sec
ond sleeper were, therefore, the ones to
suffer most, and it was in it that most
of the victims were hurt. Mrs. Ship
man and Mrs. Gooding were both in
the sleeper Men. and women could be
seen struggling to extricate themselves
from the wreckage. Others pinned
down by some crushing weight were
crying for help. Here and there was
an arm or leg protruding from the
debris. A pathetic scene was the res
cue of the two daughters of Mrs. Ship
man, of Appleton, Wis. The res
cuers were attracted to them by
their cries. They were unable
to extricate themselves. and though
hurt, refused assistance, begging that
their mother be 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 injuries. while
the mother, close by, met instant
death.
Mrs. John Gooding, of Appleton, was
probably instantly killed. The fore.
of the collision crushed together the
partitions of her berth. and she had nc
possible chance of escape.
Mrs. Gooding and her husband had
been visiting their SON, Attorney j. NJ.
Gooding, of Fond du Lac, Wis, and
took advantage of the excursion rates
to return to their home at Austin, New.
TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.