The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-07-30
Engines Collide South of KenOsha Mon.
day Afternoon and Many Have
Narrow Escapes From Death
ROADMASTER HITCHCOCK ON BOARD
Way Freight Engine Returning with a
ger Train on the Sand RIDGE.

Three men we're seriously injured
and two engines demolished in head.
on collision which occurred on the
the northward bound track of the Chi
| cago & Northwestern two miles south
of Kenosha shortly before o'clock
Monday afternoon.
The injured:
Engineer Webb, of Chicago, both
arms disabled and badly bruised, taken
to St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago.
Fireman Kush, Chicago, terribly
bruised in jumping from his engine.
Taken to his home in Chicago.
Brakeman Mangan, Milwaukee, ter
ribly cutup about the head and face
and seriously injured about the body.
Taken to Milwaukee.
Michael DeLacy, slightly injured by
leaping through the window of the cab
of one of the wrecked engines.
r. 3. Hitchcock, General Roadmaster
Of the company, was on one of the
trains at the time of the accident, but
fortunately escaped unin iured.
The wreck crews from Chicago and
Milwaukee were hurried1y called to the
scene of the accident, and by an ar
rangement of switches the company
managed to clear away the debris
without any delay ir traffic. The line
was reported clear at ten o'clock Mon
day evening.
The accident was due to nisunder-
standing of orders. Engine No. 6,
one Of the finest passenger engines
owned by the company, had been used
to pull special from Milwaukee to
Chicago in the morning, and with a
single coach the engine was returning
TO Milwaukee. Engine No. 1913 used
for pulling way freight, had been
sent to Kenosha to clear the crossings
from cars which had been piled up dur
ing wreck early in the afternoon.
The order had been sent out for No.
1913 to return to Winthrop Harbor with
the heavy load of cars, and the other
trains were to wait for 1t at that point.
No. went through Winthrop Harbor
and was coming on to Kenosha when
it was stopped by the block signal at
the scene of the wreck. The crew had
left the engine and was waiting for
the signal to be raised when the sec
ond engine, backed up by the weight
OF half hundred cars, came down the
grade.
The engineer on 1913 saw the danger
and attempted to stop but the weight
Of the train was SO great that before
the engine could be stopped, it dashed
into the engine standing still, compile
tely telescoping it. When engineer
Webb discovered that it would be i'm
possible to avoid an accident he Jump
ed from his cab and Fireman Lusha,
Brakeman Mangan and DeLacey fol-
lowed. A second later the crash came
and both engines were piled IN an in
discriminate mass across the tracks,
No. was almost completely demolish-
ed while the engine coming from the
north Jared little better. The men
who had been in the cab of the wreck
ing engine were picked up along the
road, and as soon as possible special
trains were secured to send them to
Milwaukee and Chicago. While all of
the men are badly injured it is not
thought that any of the In iuries will
prove fatal.
The wrecked engines and the one
passenger coach which was slightly
damaged, were pulled into Kenosha
late last night.
The railroad officials classified the
wreck as a trivial one but the company
will sustain loss of several thousand
dollars IN repairing the damaged
engines.
Monday seems to have been an un-
lucky day for the Northwestern COM
pany as the company had two wrecks
at Kenosha and third one on one of
the western divisions of the line.