Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-19
Trains Crash on Illinois Central
Near Rockford.
BODIES OF DEAD ARE lNCINERATED
Many Are Hurt, Some Critically, and
Missing Ones Are Not Vet Account.
ed For-The Blame is Not Yet
Placed.


known to have been killed and their
bodies cremated in head-end collision
on the Illinois Central railroad be-
tween Perryville and Irene, east OF
Rockford, early Sunday morning. Up
ward of a score of other persons were
seriously injured, some possibly fatal
ly. More are known to be missing.
Their remains are supposed to have
been burned in the ruins. Some are
supposed to have been burned alive.
| Running at great speed to make up
lost time, the east-bound passenger fly
er from Dubuque collided with west
bound through freight train from Chi
cago One engine exploded, scattering
! fire in the ruins. A minute later an
oil car in the freight train exploded,
casting streams of burning fluid upon
| the cars of both trains and destroying
( them in short order. The flames beat
back the uninjured and prevented the
rescue of the injured, whose cries at
first could be heard distinctly.
| The Dead.
DAVID BEHAN, Freeport, freight
engineer.
EDWARD CAREY, Freeport, freight
| fireman.
]. w. FUNK, Chicago, brakeman.
| passenger train.
RICHARD ORMSBY, Chicago, engi-
neer passenger train.
JAMES REARDON. Freeport, fire.
man of passenger train.
ROBERT THOMPSON, Dubuque,
American Express messenger.
NEWSBOY on passenger train, name
unknown.
SECTION FOREMAN, from Irene,
name unknown.
The Missing.
| Aged farmer, name unknown, sup
posed to live in or near Irene or Ge-
noa. Ill.
Colored man, name unknown.
Possibly four other passengers,
names unknown, dead, and bodies
burned.
The Injured.
B. R. Ahrendt, $50 West North ave
nue.; cut and bruised by broken glass.
R. Barsness, Lodi, Wis.,; slightly cut
and bruised.
A. L. Boggs. st. Louis; slightly cut
and bruised.
c. NJ. Burch, Kankakee; slightly cut
and bruised.
/ D. j. Canchester, st. Paul; slightly
cut and bruised.
! G. H Clarke, Lincoln, Neb.; severe
ly cut and bruised.
M. E. Franklin, Lake City, Iowa;
slight bruises.
P. j. Garvin, Fort Riley. Kan;
slight cuts.
Ernest Hardesty, Murphysboro, ILL.,:
bruises, not serious.
Frank HardeSty, Murphysboro, ILL.,;
severe cuts.
Thomas Hendricks, New Athens,
ILL.,; cut and bruised and hair burned
off head.
Rev. P. S. Henson, pastor First Bap-
fist church; hands slightly cut and
lower limbs slightly bruised.
John Hussey, independence, Iowa;
slight cuts.
w. B. Keefe, Sioux City. Iowa; head
severely cut.
Mrs. Fred Place, Waterloo, Iowa; Sc
we're bruises.
Mrs. T. w. Place, Waterloo, Iowa;
slight cuts and bruises.
j. H. Quinlan, passenger conductor;
cut and bruised about the chest; TAX
en- to Rockford city hospital; condition
critical.
G. E. Shurtleff, Genoa, ILL.,; badly
bruised
Frank Stadleman, New Athens, Ill;
cut about head and arms; condition
serious.
/ B. E. Travis, city; slightly cut and
severely bruised
H. j. Wellman, S95 Jackson boule-
, ward; right arm crushed off at elbow;
taken to Rockford city hospital; may
not recover.
/ Blame Not Fixed.
The investigation conducted by off,
Gals of the road thus far has failed to
assign any positive cause for the catas-
trophe. Just where the blame shout
be laid cannot now be stated, as the
train orders We're burned in the wreck
age. What little can be learned here
J and by correspondents in Rockford in.
dictates that the conductor of the
freight train either failed to obey or
ders received or was careless in COM
putting the time between running
points. Some assert the freight con-
i. ductor was forcing his train through
in an effort to make Rockford before
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