The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-11-21
CAUSED BY A FOG| SKATERS DROWN
SERIES OF COLLISIONS ON ELE
/ WAITED AND SURFACE RAIL
: = ROAD At CHICAGO.
LONG LIST OF CASUALTIES

Two Men Killed, Two Probably Fatally
Injured and Scores Of People More
or Less Seriously Hurt-All the Am
balances in the City Kept Busy Car
rylng the Victims to Their Homes
or to Hospitals.
Chicago, Nov. 20.-A dense fog caus.
Ted numerous collisions between trains
during the day. In these collisions
one man was killed, two were SO badly
injured that they probably will die
and fifteen others were seriously hurt
Scores of others, the police say, were
injured in minor accidents due to the
fog, but as they were able to assist
themselves no official reports were
made. Every ambulance in the city
was kept busy from $50 to 1880 a. m,
carrying the injured to their homes or
to hospitals. The more serious acct.
dents occurred on the Metropolitan
and the Lake Street elevated roads.
There were two collisions on the Lake
Street e." two on the South Side
IL" one on the Northwestern IL" and
one between suburban trains on the
Rock Island and Lake Shore roads.
Collisions between vehicles and sur.
face cars were frequent, but while a
great number of people were injured
by them, the damage was chiefly to the
colliding objects. The record OF
deaths and injuries follows:
Dead-Thomas Meeny, standing on
rear platform, crushed to death; Otto
Leinhert, crushed to death.
Injured-Fred Jones, both legs sew.
cred, will die; William Upton, serious
internal injuries; Harry Twohey, in
ternal injuries; G. F. Ireland, both legs
broken and injured internally, fatal;
Harold Soderburg, serious internal in.
jury.
The fog at an early hour was 50
thick that persons standing ON the
sidewalks could scarcely distinguish
street cars passing within a few feet
of them, and motormen kept their
gongs changing constantNwarning.
All Rear-End Collisions.
The collision on the Metropolitan
was between trains going the same
way, as was the case in other acct
dents. Both trains were crowded,
many passengers standing on the rear
platforms. On the first train these
were almost the only ones to suffer.
The motorman slowed up going around
the curve and while waiting for sig
fo IN hn
Park express train crashed into the
rear. That was almost the only warn
ing the passengers on the rear plat.
form had Of the approaching express.
. The accident on the Lake Street ele-
waited was similar. The people in
tured were standing on the rear plat.
form.
The other accidents in their essen
tial details were the same, but owing
to the fact that orders had been sent
out to run at reduced speed, no one
was seriously hurt. The rear end col
lisions between the Lake Shore and
the Rock Island suburban trains &C.
Cured at Thirty-third street. The
Rock Island engines COW catcher and
the rear platform of the last car were
smashed, but both trains were able to
proceed. Traffic all over the city was
delayed.
Later in the day news of another
collision which had occurred on the
Metropolitan reached the public. The
train of which Otto Leinhert was con-
ductor was overtaker by another train.
Leinhert heroically stayed on the rear
platform, frantically waving a signal
lantern, while the passengers who had
been with him before fed inside. His
efforts were in vain. He was crushed
and died at the hospital several hours
later. In all there were nine col.
isions on elevated structures.