Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-25
HOLIDAY TRAINS COLLIDE
w. Men Die in Ereight Smash on Colo
" radO 4 Southern.
SNOW b. MICHIGAN ENGINEER
Kentucky Elevated Cars wrecked I'm
Air, PennsyIvRnia Limited Crashes
Into Freight and Big Four
Engine Stays Two.

TRINIDAD, Colo, Dec. 24-seven men
were killed in a freight wreck which oc
| Cured one and a half miles north of here
on the Colorado & Southern about e:15 this
evening.
The dead:
ELMER PIERCE Engineer.
J. FOX, fireman on extra freight.
- MDERMoTT. brakeman on extra.
]. w. GoLDTRAP, engineer on regular
freight
- KING, machinist on regular.
- DECKER, fireman on regular
L. F. RICHARDS, brakeman on regular
The injured:
Fred Gilbert, riding on extra, badly
bruised on head.
The cause Of the accident, according to
a statement by the engineer Of the extra
train, was that the regular had been over
looked, the extra running without orders
expecting to meet passenger No. at
Bowen, ten miles north OF here. At 6:37
extra No. As, southbound freight, in charge
OF Conductor Bronson, pulled out OF the
yards here. Less than ten miles further
on, just as they were rounding a sharp
curve not more than a mile from the COL
orado Southern yards, they saw regular
freight No. 2S bearing down upon them not
more than 100 yards distant. Before any
OF the seven trainmen could jump the two
trains crashed together. Fourteen cars of
the regular train we're completely wrecked
and seven of the extra demolished. Both
the engines are complete wrecks. The
bodies OF the dead are still under the
wreckage
Crash in binding storm.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Dec. 24.-During
heavy snow storm at 7:30 this morning,
Detroit train No. 2 on the Pere Marquette
railroad, crashed into the rear end of
Saginaw train No. 80, at McCord, a flag
station fifteen miles east of here.
Train No. 80 left Grand Rapids at Z
o'clock, ten minutes ahead Of No. 2. 1t
was tagged at McCord and was Just start
ing out again when No. came along.
The engineer OF No. did not see the
rear lights of the Saginaw train until too
late to stop his train. No cars were tele-
scoped, although the force Of the collision
smashed platforms and threw passengers
and train crew about seriously.
The following were injured:
Mrs. M. j. Kiley, Grand Rapids, cut
about the head and chest
L. z. Cook, Noads, badly injured.
James Scoville, Clarksville, mail clerk, |
badly hurt
Express Messenger Grifith. badly hurt.
e. A. Wood, baggageman, slightly cut on
the head.
Trains Collide in Air. |
LOUISVILLE, KY. Dec. 24-six persons
were injured. several seriously, in a coll |
lision between a street car and a Big Four |
freight train on a siding on the Water |
as l. L., Hra.-
vatedFcar was thrown from the trestle to |
the ground, eighteen feet below
The injured:
James Williams, New Albany. leg
crushed.
August z. Rater. New Albany, bruised.
w. 7. Adams, chief OF police, New Al
bany. back wrenched and bruised.
Frank Trunk, New Albany, cut by glass.
Walter Deer, New Albany, bruised.
Brack Spice. Big Four switchman. leg
hurt.
had Wreck on Pennsylvania.
PITTsBuRG. Dec. 24.-The Pennsylvania
limited, running almost an hour late,
crashed into the rear end of the Leetsdale
train at Quaker Valley sta
tion tonight at IL O'Clock.
The big engine Of the limited plowed
through the one ahead, making the two
cars the length Of one.
The crash was heard for a mile, and the
limited. running at the rate of fifty-hve
miles an hour, carried the train from
Quaker Valley to Edgeworth. almost half
4 mile, before II could be stopped. Many
we're injured some OF them probably IA
tally
The injured:
Charles Hopkinc OF Leetsdale, left arm
mangled and cut of. left leg broken and
eft eye gouged out; badly bruised; will die.
John d. Carson OF Sewickley, nose broken,
badly cut and bruised; serious.
John stritzeyer OF Newcastle. both legs
H. T. Potter. residence not ascertained,
bruised and cut about the head and body.
NJ. ]. Joyce OF Leetsdale. right leg broken
and badly bruised and cut by falling glass.
Many other passengers were cut and
bruised. The limited was uninjured ex-
,ept that the engine was disabled.
Two Die on Big Four.
BLOOMINGTON. ILL.,, Dec 24-while
,rossing the Big Four tracks near Irving
on today Isaac MacCormick and Robert
farmers of Champagne county,
we're struck by a passenger train. Mac ,
'ormick was killed and Conmore probably
atally injured
Both TRAINS Demolished
MARIETTA, o.. Dec. 24.-Ths north
'ound Ohio River railroad passenger train.
eaving Williamstown at $3.50, collided with
freight one mile south. OF Waverly, w. :
"a. this morning. The freight was taking
lights allowed to the passenger train. Both I
ngines and trains are reported demol- !
shed and perhaps some killed.
A. J. Queen Of Marietta is among the Sc
iously injured. Physicians from Marietta
ave been dispatched to the scene. eight
eiles from Marietta.
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