The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-10-08
TROLLEY CAR
IS DEMOLISHED
Struck by a Heavy Train in Out
skirts of Chicago.
FIVE MEN LOSE THEIR LIVES
Nine Others Are acknowledgements
Makes Strong Effort to Avert
Accident, But Breaks
Fail to Work.

Chicago, Oct. with a crash which
carried death in it's wake the engine of
the Wisconsin Central Limited west
bound struck a Forty-eight avenue troll
ley car at the Fifty-second avenue
crossing Wednesday evening. Motor
man John Kilroy, on the trolley car,
had watched a passenger train go by
and thinking that the track was clear
started his car. The car was midway on
the tracks when a heavy engine n
another train of cars dashed into sight.
There was no time to escape. The
warning cry Of the motorman served
only to excite the occupants of the car
and they realized in a moment their
danger. When the engine struck, most
of the occupants of the car, who were
returning from the Harlem track, had
jumped from their seats. The car was
almost completely demolished and not
a man in it escaped injury. Four were
taken from the wrecked car dead and
one died a few minutes later as he was
being taken to a hospital.
The Victims.
The dead are: F. Roberts, 1884 State
street; crushed and manned, killed in
stantly; Billy Griffin, Kansas City,
helper at race track, body crushed, skull
fractured, died instantly; Joe Butler,
colored, employed at race track, body
crushed and mangled, legs broken,
skull fractured, died instantly ;unidenti-
fed man, skull crushed, body mangled,
dead when found; J.. Williams, Jockey,
rode horse that came in second in last
ace at Harlem, body crushed and
mangled, skull fractured, body taken to
the county morgue.
Nine men were injured, none serious
ly, however.
Rails Were slippery.
The car was approaching from the
south on it's way to the city. The
occupants, nearly all Of whom were
connected with the Harlem race track,
were discussing the days races. A slow
passenger train toward the city was
passing as the car approached the
tracks, the motorman slackening
speed to allow the train to pass. When
the track vas clear he started ahead
at full speed, unconscious of the ap-
proach Of the rapidly running express
train. Conductor Enright saw the
headlight of the locomotive and shout
ed a. warning. John Luney. who was
seated at the end Of the car, repeated
the cry and with the conductor jumped
from the car. The motorman sought
to stop the car, but the slippery rails
it is thought, prevented the brakes
from being effective.
Scene at the Wreck.
With a siclkening crash, the engine
struck the car near it's center, cutting
it completely in two and hurting oc-
cupants and wreckage to either side.
Screams and groans filled the air as
the survivors hurried to the aid of
posite side Of the track was another
car which had not attempted to cross.
The crew and passengers of this car
fastened to aid the injured. The ex-
press train stopped and it's crew Joined
in the work Of rescue. Quick calls
were sent and patrol wagons and am
balances from the Lawndale and other
police stations hurried to the spot.
-Four bodies were taken from the
wreckage with the injured and the sense
less form Of Joe Williams, a jockey,
who a few hours before had narrowly
missed riding to victory on Carat in
the last race at Harlem, was put in
the ambulance. Williams died on the
way to the hospital and the body was
taken to the county morgue.
Four Killed Near PhiIad.Iphia. :
Philadelphia, Oct. -Four persons
were killed and several others were in
jured by their vehicle being struck by
an express train at Sharon Hill, a few
miles from this city on the Philadel-
phla, Baltimore & Washington rail-
road. The injured were brought to a
hospital in this city. There were about
a dozen persons in the party and thew
were returning to this city from a fam
lily reunion.
Victim of Heart Trouble.
Washington, Oct. 1.-Edward W. Me-
Kittrick, deputy auditor for the treas