The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-19

track No. Ethe westbound freight track
al that place. Quick saw fhat the fog
might mean danger. so ne sent ahead
two men, Lawless and Doherty. 10 give
warning of approaching trains. Lawless
was 10 go west and Doherry east and
cover all the tracks. They were 20 shout
warnings at the approach OF trains The
passenger tracks were kept busy with in
coming suburban trains and the smoke
and steam of these trains helped 10 make
the atmosphere more dense
Suddenly. about $50. there was shout
from Lawless, who was the advance
guard of the gang. =
Train No. g." ne cried. alt Wa an
eastbound freight train that came along
slowly. leaving behind II q heavy pail
OF smoke. The men who were scattered
along the track umped out of the way.
Almost all OF them jumped over 10 track
No. 1, the eastbound passenger track
The heavy smoke enveoped them and the
men many of them new hands on the
road. shivered with fright. for they could
not see and could scarcely hear the ap-
preaching trains that followed the frei ght.
l. keeping all the time sharp lookout.
Suddenly there was a rumble of wheels
and the shrek OF a whistle. The Mill
town local. delayed by fog. was coming
along at the rate % forty miles an hour.
Lawless was struck and thrown thirty
feet away, mangled and bleeding. On
went the train Engineer Van Nostrand
had scarcely noticed the mans body fly
ing through the air when the engine
struck Donerty; then IL pioughed into the
mass OF covering men. VITO stood tud-
died together on the track.
1T was an awful sight" said the en-
gineer later. There was a mass Of legs
and arms and heads flying through the
air. I was drenched with blood. knew
that SOM thing terrible had happened and
put on the air brakes as hard as posi-
BILE"
When the train came to a stand.tiIl
the passengers rushed out. The track
was covered with blood. The meadows
and the track looked like a battlefield
covered with bodies. The shrieks of the
dying drowned the cries of Mortified pas
sengers. Women tainted and men turned
away in horror. OF the nineteen mn. nine
were dead ad six wounded Some one
telephoned quickly 20 Jersey City. Many
Of the bodies. still writhfng in mortal
agony, were placed on the train and borne
TO the city. Two of the wounded died
on the way. A relief train brought back
the others.
COLLISION IN AN IOWA FOG.
Davenport. Ia, Nov. 1s.-One railway
wreck caused another today, resulting in
the injury of a number of worknen.
Two freight trains on the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific collIded at Moscow.
Iowa. One man was killed and one in
jured. A wreckfng train which was
about TO start to the scene from Wilton
was run into by a fast mail train. The
fireman of the mail train was badly in
jured and sixteen men on the work train
were hurt. some seriously.
The dead:
JOHN DONAHUE head brakeman,
Davenport.
Injured:
Marshal Miller, Davenport, brakeman;
leg broken.
John Nighswanger. Davenport, fireman
fast mail; jumped and badly hurt; may
die
William Mcintyre, leg broken.
Frank Anken, leg and arm broken.
Only six on the wrecking train escaped
injury, a dozen besides those whose
names are given being hurt.
Chicago, Nov. 1S.-At the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific general offices it was
stated that both wrecks were caused by
the thick fog prevailing in the Missis-
BILE for the engineers to see the block
signals. The first collision was at Mos
cow. An extra westbound freight having
the right of way was run into by a reg
ular eastbound freight one engineer be-
ing killed ard the other injured. Both
engines were badly wrecked "a wreck
ing traine was immedidcc-y ordered out
from Wilton, a few miles east Just as
the wrecking train pulled out of the sid
ing on TO the main track the westbound
Chicago fast mail ran into the rear end,
scattering the wrecking outfit in all diTec-
lions and more or less seriously injuring
twelve workmen. The engineer OF the
passenger train could not see the signal
until within few feet of it, when it was
too late.
COLLISION IN COLORADO.
Pueblo, Colo, Nov. 1S.-Passenger train
No. II on the Denver and Rio Grande from
Denver, carrying coaches for the Mossiuri
Pacific, ran into a freight train six miles
north OF Colorado Springs at SIS this
evening. The engineer of the passenger
and the fireman OF the freight were
slightly Injured.
WRECK IN ARIZONA
Prescott. Ariz.. Nov. ia fatal wreck
occurred today on the Santa Fe. Phoenix
and Prescott. An engine and ca0oose
backing into town ran into two steers,
throwing the train into the ditch
Waterman Hanks was pinned between the
engine and the tender and was killed.
Engineer Clments. Fireman Reilly and
Brakeman Merritt were seriously injured.
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