Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-14

| place two miles northeast of Alton at
1870 i'm the afternoon.
The dead:
FRANK b. HORNE engineer,
Beardstown. buried under the engine
and instantly killed.
The injured:
y. II. POLLARD, conductor, Rock
Island, shoulder bruised.
c. l.. POLLARD, baggageman, Rock
Island, scalp cut.
f. w. ABBEY, mail clerk. Manches-
ter. leg hurt.
+. c. THORNTON. Alton, leg hurt.
JOHN FRANCIS, student, Chicago.
badly cut.
Running at Full Speed.
The train was running down grade
and at a rapid rate when one of the
rails broke and the engine and all the
cars left the rails and plunged along
on the ties Il distance of nearly an
eighth of a mile. Then the engine
plunged over an embankment 10 feet
high and overturned. Engineer Horne
had shut off steam, applied the air
and was attempting to jump out
through the cab window when the en-
CINE fell upon him, killing him out
right. The fireman jumped from the
other side and was not hurt.
The day coach left the tracks and
aIighted 20 feet away and none of the
passengers in it WAS hurt. The mail
clerks. G.. l.. Mitchell, of this city. and
W. Z. Abbey, of Winchester, were
imprisoned in their car, but got to
the axes that are provided for such
emergencies and chopped their way
out. The stove in the mail car was
overturned and the car was set on
fire. but the passengers carried snow
and put out the flames. There were
about sixty passengers on the train
and none of them was seriously in
jured, some being slightly hurt
through being thrown about in the
cars. a relief train was sent out
from st. Louis and the passengers
were taken to ST. Louis, arriving
there about midnight. The wreck
was cleared away this morning.
Horne Well Known Here.
Engineer Horne was well known in
this city, having resided here for a
number of years. Although his home
is now in Beardstown, he has been
running into this city regularly on
alternate trips, having last been here
JAN TO- when he went out on No. 10.
He was about AZ years of age and
leaves a wife and one son, Clarence,
who is a dental student in Chicago.
Before the strike of 1888 Mr.. Horne
was conductor and resided in this
city. At the time of that conflict he
took an engine and has been employ
ed as engineer since.
No. As pulled out of this city at 1920
yesterday morning with Conductor
Pollard in charge, Harry Hudson be-
ing the brakeman. c. l.. Pollard was
baggagemaster, John S. Jones ex-
press messenger, and G.. L. Mitchell |
was in the mail car. J. f. Dempsey |
had the engine which was cut off at |
Beardstown. The train went through |
solid as it left this city and all those |
above mentioned with the exception
of Mr.. Dempsey went with it. The
train was composed of the express,
mail and baggage cars, smoker, chair
car and a sleeper.
First Bad Wreck for Pollard.
Conductor Pollard is one of the old
est employees of the Burlington, hav-
ing been on the road continuously for
"a years. During all that time his
train has never before been seriously
wrecked, although he has had a num-
Der of narrow escapes from being
killed or badly injured. c. L. Pollard
is his brother. Another brother, VIII
Pollard, was killed few years ago at
Barstow. He was braLing and in rum
ming to throw a. switch his heel
caught in a frog, the train striking
him before he could release himself.