The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-20
William NOrthway, formerly Of This
City, Killed ii a Railway Disaster
Monday Morning
The PASSENGERS ALL ESCAPE.
Passengersin two Trains are Panic Stricken
by Head-on Collision and Wreck
age is PILED Along the Track.

cage, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway,
heavily laden with passengers, collidsd
while running at full speed few
miles out Of Long Lake Station at
at nine O'Clock Monday morning.
William Northway, formerly of Ke-
nosha, who is son of Mrs. F. C.
Gully Of this city, was an express mes
|senger on one Of the trains and his
lifeless remains were removed from
the debris after the wreck.
Scores of passengers who were in
the two trains were panic stricken by
the collision and many Of them were
injured. The cars were piled high on
the track, and it was many hours before
traffic could be resumed. The trains
were going at full speed along the
stretch Of level track. Mistak orders
are said to have been responsible for
the fearful accident. Wrecking trains
were rushed to the scene of the disas-
ter and spent hours clearing the tracks
SO that traffic could be resumed.
Train Is Crowded
The incoming train was due Ia Chi
cago at 1915 O'Clock. It was crowded
with cottagers from the many lakes IN
the Fox Lake district, returning from
the Sunday outing.
The north bound train left the Chi
cago station at 7:45 O'Clock. 1t carried
large load Of people bound for the re-
sorts. The outgoing train usually
sidetracks at Long Lake to allow The
Chicago train to pass. The signal
was not flying Monday and the train
Numbered through the station. Two
minutes later, only two miles east of
Long Lake station, it collided with the
fast incoming train.
The crash was heard at the Long
Lake station twenty minutes before
the first passengers arrived, out of
breath, asking for aid.
Paul Schaeffer was one Of the first
to reach the station at Long Lake. He
said: "The train we boarded at Fox
Lake was running very fast. All of a
sudden the air.brakes were applied
with all force and we were thrown
against the seats ia front. Then came
an awful crash and a mad scramble to
get out of the cars.
THE baggage cars we're piled high
over the engine. The wreckage was
strewn all along the track, Where the
engines collided the wreckage was al
most as high as the telegraph wires.
"The steam was squirting through
the wreckage. We at once started for
ithe station to get help. When we left
they were taking the train hands cut
tof the wreck.
"How the passenger coaches escaped
| is mystery. But one of them was
| piled in the wreckage. The men in
the smoking cars were most severely
shaken up. They were thrown out OF
their seats and many received slight
| Injuries. But there were no severe in
juries received by any of the passen-
gers"
The death of Chilly" Northway will
cause unbounded sorrow in Kenosha.
The young man was thirty three
years of age and had been born and
raised IN Kenosha. He was son of
TIE late Isaac Northway and all his
early life was spent in Kenosha. He
had been employed by the Express
companies for several years and at one
time was employedby the United States
Express Company in this city He is
married and is survived by a widow
and one child, who reside in Chicago.