The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-02
TRAINS CRASH;
FOUR ARE DEAD
Steam Fills SIeepers After
Express Strikes Freight
at Malta, Ill.
TWENTY-sIx ARE INJURED.
Few Escape Unhurt from the Norht-
western Cars Which wsre Running
from Omaha. to Chicago-Tortured in
Hot vapor Pouring from Locomotives


the Chicago and Northwestern railway
ran into freight train at Malta, ILL.,,
shortly at S o'clock Sunday morning.
The passenger train was running at
the rate Of sixty miles an hour, and it's
engine struck the engine of the freight
train, which had darted out on the
east-bound track from the west-bound
one because of misplaced switch.
There was not an instant's warning.
Twenty-six persons were injured, all
but one In scalding steam and fire
from the crushed locomotives and cars.
-Four of the twenty-six died after ter
rible suffering. The victims were
brought to Chicago by the relief train
Malta is sixty-tive miles west of Chi
cago and six miles west of De Kalb.
The Dead.
E. B. Duncan. Chicago, porter on
Pullman sleeper Tole1son, scalded to
death by escaping steam; d. o. Mich
OILS. Council Bluffs, Ia, badly burned
and scalded and died on the relief train
while being brought to Chicago;
George w. Rudio, Omaha, burned and
scalded and died in hotel at Malta;
Mrs. George w. Rudio, Omaha, burned
and scalded, died in St. Luke's Hospi-
tai last evening.
The Injured.
At st. Luke's Hospital: Howard P.
Gray, Evanston, burned about head
and body; w. Hickman, Chicago, por-
ter on Pullman sleeper Hanover, badly
burned about the face; Pierce D.
O'Neill, special agent for the North
western road, burned about head and
face; Miss Veronica Rohrmoser, Mil
lard, Neb., burned about the face; John
M. Wilson, Boone, Ia, civil engineer
for the Northwestern road, burned
about the hands and face. At the
Presbyterian Hospital: Henry Corran,
Chicago, fireman of the passenger
train, burned and bruised, leg broken;
+. Larabee, Chicago, engineer of the
passenger train, leg fractured in two
places and burned. At the Alexian
Brothers Hospital: Fred Durham,
Chicago, burned about the face and
neck, is badly injured.
Slightly Injured.
G. w. Aiken, yardmaster for North
western road, Chicago; Bert Carr, Will
lett, N. Y; W. R. Dawes, Chicago;
Miss Ellingwood, Omaha; George w.
Fox. Boulder Colo; Mrs. Eva Hall,
Chicago; Edward Hinckley, Surprise,
Neb.; A. E. Jewell, Buffalo; Mrs. A. E.
Jewell, Buffalo; Mrs j. L. Kali, Chi
cago; Clarence Lazarus, Chicago; w.
A. Sweeney, Larchford, Ia; Lincoln
Taft Chicago; Marion Wilkes, Ere
mont, Neb. John Maynard, 1866 West.
Park avenue, Chicago, was engineer of
the freight locomotive and Will Mac
Gregor, who lives on West Lake street,
near Fortieth avenue, was the fireman.
Both jumped before the crash and es-
capped without injury. Eli
Wrecked Cars Take Fire
The cars caught fire from the loco
motives, and all were burned except
one sleeper. A number of freight cars
were destroyed. The misplaced switch.
that caused the wreck, was on cross
wa oW1SSAA u oSrA OCCWSCu Iu0 east ana
west bound tracks. The freight train,
which was bound east, like the pas
senger train, had crossed over to the
other track to allow the passenger
train to go by. The freight was NOV
ing along slowly, and no warning light
showed from the target Of the switch.
Suddenly the freight engine darted
over toward the other line The pas
senger train, laundering along at the
rate of mile a minute, was then 200
yards away. With crash the two en-
gines came together. The swiftly NOV
ing passenger engine turned halfway
around, cut freight car on the sid
ing in two, and rolled over on it's side.
The passenger cars left the track and
plowed along for the length of the
train, when they leaned up against the
grain-laden box cars on the siding.
This alone stopped them from going
over a fifteen-foot empankment and
rolling into ditch.
ENGINE AND CAR IN RIVER.
Landslide Causes Wreck and +h.