The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-02-20
MANY KILLED
ON RAILWAYS
Illinois Central Freight Crashes
into the Rear of a Pas
senger Train,
HEAD-0N COLLISION IN IOWA.
Three Injured I'm II Smashup Near Car
Observation-Disclosures and Fireman Lose
Their Lives in II Pennsylvania Wreck,
Owing to Disobedieuce of Orders.

Litchfield, ILL.,, Feb. 1.-Two persons
met death and five were injured in a
collision between the Diamond Spe
clal' of the Illinois Central Road and
freight train No. SO at Z o'clock yes
terday morning. The collision occurred
at point five miles north of Litch-
held, and was remarkable in that the
last passenger was ahead of the freight
and that both trains were moving.
The dead: E. B. Burns, Frank Nc
Tntyre.
The injured: G. w. Castles, Jack
Dean, Michael Donnelly, A. M. Dear
born, e. Eaton.
The Diamond Special" was moving
at rate of twelve miles an hour when
the freight crashed into the rear sleep
er. A heavy fog hung over the country
and both trains were picking their way
carefully.
1t is said the passenger would have
been travelling faster had there not
been some trouble with the locomo-
tive's mechanism. The engineer on the
freight engine declared that the fog
was SO thick he could not see 100 feet
ahead
Porter Eaton and Jack Dean had a
remarkable escape. They were stand
ing near the rear platform of the last
Pullman when the lad noticed bright
light in the mist. He called the atten-
ton of the colored man to it, and with
| one look the porter shouted to the boy
to run for his life.
Both leaped away, and were half
| way down the aisle when the giant
| freight engine struck it. The lad was
within five feet of the freight engine
when rescued.
Eldora, Iowa, Feb. IA fatal
| head-on collision between an Iowa
Central passenger train, south bound,
and single engine, occurred four
miles south of Eldora on the Iowa Cen
trail Railway at IL o'clock Saturday
| night.
The killed: William Frew, Elmer
! Ogle, Frank Patton. John White. Law
renee A. Jegan of Chicago a travelling
salesman, was badly bruised about the
|
We're bruised and shaken up, but their
injuries are not serious. Engineer
| White reversed his engine, chung to
his post and at the cost of his own life
saved the passengers on his train.
Carbonate, ILL.,, Feb. 17.-Three per-
sons were seriously injured at noon
yesterday in head-end collision at
| Texas Junction, six miles west of this
| city, on the Illinois Central Railroad.
Passenger train No. 26, Conductor
Bryan, collided with an extra freight
The passenger engineer, Robert Allen,
Baggageman Charles Ashley and Mrs.
DR.. j. S. Lewis, all of this city, We're
seriously injured. The trainmen on
the passenger jumped, saving their
| lives.
Connellsville, Pa, Feb. 17.-Engineer
T. w. Lyons of Mckees Rocks, and his
| fireman, p w. Desot of Buffalo, were
killed in head-end collision of freight
trains on the Pittsburg, McKeesport &
Youghiogheny division of the Pitts
burg & Lake Erie railroad at Round
Bottom Saturday night. The trains
came together as the result of dis
| obeying orders by one of the crews.
| The victims We're pinned under the
| wreckage four hours, Lyons dying ten
| minutes before the rescuers reached
him and Desot surviving but twenty
minutes after being taken out.