Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-11-22
Il" TRAINS COLLIDE.
Dense Fog Responsible for Dis
asters In Chicago.
SEVERAL SERIOUS WRECKS OCCUR.
one Man IL Killed and Forty OF More
Injured in Collisions on Els-
waited Roads-Seyeral May
Not Recover.

Chicago, Nov. 2O.-Disasters on ele-
waited roads caused reign of panic
Tuesday, when in four rear-end col
lisions one man was killed instantly
and not fewer than 40 persons In
iured. Several of the victims now lie
at hospitals in critical condition
and it will not be possible to estimate
the death roll correctly for days. The
| accidents were due to dense fog
that made the day almost as dark as
night, and to frosty rails that made
quick stopping of the trains an i'm
possibility. Thousands of persons
gathered at the stations of the ele-
waited roads ell the forenoon to an
quire for relatives and friends who
they feared might be in the wreck.
The inability Of these anxious crowds
to reach the scenes of the accidents
resulted in reign of endety that
practically plunged thousands into p
panic of fear.
First Crash ON Metropolitan "L".
The first of the big accidents o.
Cured on the Metropolitan road near
West Monroe street at 7:20. With q
crash that shook the steel structure
beneath them and rolled like the
roar of guns through the impens-
trable mists a Humboldt division
train of the northwest main branch
bumped into the rear car of Logan
square train and knocked it into a
mass of wood and glass and steel,
killing Thomas Meeny and injuring
10 others.
Unable to see the customary signal
in the dense fog and calculating upon
the usual time to start the train from
the West Madison street elevated sta
ton, the motorman in charge of the
downtown Humboldt park train at
about 1925 in the morning started his
train laden with people toward West
Monroe street. In front of him
moved, snail-like, Logan square
train, marked for Canal street only.
The Logan square train was awaiting
the signal to go around the curve to
the Marshfield avenue station. The
curve begins at about West Monroe
street and on account of the fog
the Logan square train was brought
almost to standstill. The Humboldt
park train came after it and before
it could be fully checked in the speed
with which it had started the crash
came.
Alley sLo Cars Wrecked.
Two cars on two trains on the
South Side Rapid Transit elevated
were partly wrecked Tuesday morn
ing as result of rear-end collision
at Sixty-third street, between Mon
roe and Madison avenues. A piece of
an air brake was broken from one
of the cars and fell through the ele-
waited structure. The piece of iron
crashed through plate-glass win
dow in the barber shop of Gates &
Gretzner, on Sixty-third street, near
Madison avenue. George Smith, q
porter in the place, was standing
near the window at the time of the
collision. When the iron broke
up to turn off gas Jet inside the
window. The piece of iron barely
missed his head and shower of
broken glass fell around him.
The tracks were blocked at this
point for about two hours. Down
town workers were forced to look
elsewhere for transportation to their
wark. For the first time in years
there was line of men and women
nearly half-bleck long waiting at
the Illinois Central depot at Sixty
third street to get tickets. All snps
face lines in the section about Wood
lawn were either far behind their
schedule time or not running at all.
The Illinois Central trains were also
forced to lose considerable time, the
fog being SO dense.
Passengers Shaken on NorthwestexA,
About the same time, and before
the fog had begun to lift, there was
q third elevated road collision, this
one en the Northwestern IT, at Di-
vision street. No one was hurt, but
many passengers were shaken up
quite severely.
Two Lives Lost.
Rome, Nov. 2O.-Fire destroyed the
sRmpier-Darena sugar refinery at
Genoa, the largest in Italy. Two girls
lost their lives.