Arizona republican., 1903-11-20
A DIRTY WRECK
Ihirty-One Killed in Wreck
 on the C. C. & St.I.
SHARP CURVE IN A GUT
An Engineer of One of the Trains Disregarded Orders and the Engines at Full Speed First Seen Within Fifty Feet of Each Other.

men were killed and at least forty
 were injured today in a head end col lision between a west bound freigh:
 train and a work train on the Cleve-
 land, Cincinnati. Chicago and st
 Louis railroad between Mackinaw and
 Fremont. Illinois.
 The bodies have been taken from
 the debris. which is piled thirty feet
 nigh on the tracks. huge pile OF
 broken timber and twisted and dis
 torted iron and steel. The bodies arr.
 mangled so that many are uurecog-
 nizable. All the dead and most or the
 injured were members of the crew os
 the work train. The crews on both
 locomotives jumped in time to save
 their lives.
 cut at the beginning of d sharp curve
 neither train being visable to the
 crew Of the other until they were with
 in fifty feet of each other.
 The engineer set the brakes. sounded
 the whistles and then leaped. The
 trains struck with such force that tn.
 sound was heard for miles around \
 second after the collisiOu the boiler
 of the work train exploded. throwing
 heavy iron bars.a timbers 200 feet Among the dead are:
 ROBERT KING. Fremont. THOMAS TROY. Fremont. WILLIAM EADS. Fremont CHARLES F. MEYERS. Blooming ton.
 GEORGE SMITH. Bloomington. GEORGE HARMON. Bloomington JOHN DORIAN, Bloomington. JOHN SMITH, Bloomington. FREDERICK BACHMAN. Danvers- JOHN SHAW. Mackinaw. STEPHEN GUTTER, Mackinaw- Twenty unidentified dead bOdi-@ were mangled beyond recognition
 Conductor J. W. Jude. of Indian apolis. who had charge of the freight train received orders at Urbana. it Is said. to wait at Mackinaw for the work train. The freight train did not stop. The engineer Of the work train. George Becker. had orders it is said. to pass the freight at Mackinaw aui was on the way. The work train Was about five minutes late and was run ming at full speed in order to make up the time.
 When about two miles from Niuer- and entering q cut both engineers sIv. | the approaching trains and realizing that it was impossible to stop they : threw on the emergency brakes. whistled twice and then leaped from their cab. The collision was seen by Russel
 Noonan, who hastened to a nearby house. and telephoned to Fremont A | special train with four physicians was made up in a few minutes and in les than half an hour was at the wreck At the same time another train arrived ! from Pekin bearing Superintendent c | H. Barnard, of the Big Four and three physicians.
 | The second train bore a lot of turkish rugs and these were used tp carry the mangled corpses out of the wreck After working two hours. the bodies of twenty-six men were taken | out and laid on the esnbankment near
 the side of the track. One of the last bodies was that of Win. Bailey. who had been thrown
 thirty feet in the air and held tn i place by two steel rails which hal been pushed up between the locomotive | and the tender of the work train The  workmen had been laying rails at diff | ferent points along the track The in Jured were taken to the two cabOOSeS
 of the relief train where hospitals were | improvised.
 One caboose was taken to Morton while the other was taken to Fremont. 1 The dead lay on the bank all nigh; awaiting the arrival of the coroner of Tazewell county. Widows and or phans thronged around the wreck to- night asking for information Out of thirty-five men who con- stituted the crew of the work train
 only four are living and two of these are seriously injured Wreckage is strewn along the track for two hundred feet and twenty -fou' hours will elapse before it can be cleared.