The Tomahawk., 1904-07-21
FATAL WRECK OF
EXCURSION train
FILLED WITH SUNDAY SCHOOL
CHILDREN IT CRASHES IN
Z TO COAL CARS, (
EIGHTEEN KILLED
. } = IN THE COLLISION
At Least 80 Others Are Injured-Dis-
aster Occurs at Glenwood, HI
Two Trainmen Held, Charged with
! Criminal Responsibility.

: Two Trainmen Held, Charged with
Criminal Responsibility. s.4 =
Chicago, July 15.-Eighteen persons
men, women aud children-Were
killed, about 80 others injured, several
fatally, by the collision of their Sum
day school excursion train with a de-
tached or runaway section of coal
train about seven o'clock Wednesday
night on the Chicago & Eastern 1lli-
1ois tracks at Glenwood. -
The special train Of merrymakers
had been to Momence, ILL.,, under the
auspices Of Doremus Congregational
church, Butler street, near Thirty
first street, of which Rev. F. r. Bush
is pastor Almost without an instant's
warning occupants of nine coaches
were thrown into state of indescrib-
able woe. Thus was joyous annual
outing in the country brought to a
tragic close.
Many women and children at the
moment of the collision were heard in
a medley Of hymns of praise.
Engineer F. E. Hoxie and Conductor
Cooper, of the freight train, are under
arrest at Dalton charged with gross
criminal negligence.
List of the Dead.
Following is list of the dead:
John Berling, IA years old; Mrs. Mary
Cherry, Andrew Cramer, Mrs. G. Ger
niger, Walter Geringer, IS years
h1 ri
years old; Lena Hipelius, ii years
old; Will L. Meier, II years old;
Mrs Emma Palmer, Lelene Pal
mer, IL years old; Mrs. Harvey Berry,
Charles Potraba, II years old; Mamie
Potraba; three years old; Mrs.
Ellen Sanders, Mrs. William Schroed-
ar, Thomas Volkstorf, two unidenti-
ied dead, arms and legs of man, and
boy mutilated almost beyond recog-
milton. ~ &+&sll-
j.. Crash Without Warning.
The party of $50 picnickers was return
ing from Island park, Molnence. For
the most part the passengers were happy
children and their mothers. Some were
singing and some we're asleep when the
wreck came.
At the crash those in the rear cars
of the 11-coach train rushed for the doors
or jumped through the windows, many
being injured.
In front, the first two cars, crushed
like egg shells, were crowded with dead
and injured.
The baggage car had been filled with
romping children. The roof of the first
passenger was rammed clear through it,
pushing the cruelty crushed mass of
humanity through the breaks in the
walls. The first passenger car was torn
to splinters. g4z tass
Relief Hurried to Scene.
Word was sent to Chicago Heights and
Glenwood and relief parties reached the
spot is minutes later. The scene was a
most fearful thing. Struggling masses
of bodies could be seen through the open
ings in the cars. The dead and injured
were packed in together. The dead were
terribly, horribly mangled, heads and
limbs having been served and in the
midst were the MANNED and injured liv-
ing. 1t was Is minutes before the first
body was taken out. 1t was that of a
small boy nearly every bone being
broken, and was taken from the brake
rods on the baggage car. The corpse Of
little girl, as yet unidentified. was taken
from near the baggage car door. There
was no screaming nor wailing. The pic
nickers came to the aid Of the workers
who had arrived in large numbers. Eight
physicians were soon on the scene.
Then came the grewsome task of bring
ing the poor crushed children and babies
out of the wreckage. Detached heads,
arms, legs were passed out by the men
inside They were. laid under the
cushion cloths in line by the wire fence
and a few inches away the wounded
were laid out Physicians hurriedly
dressed wounds and administered stim-
ulants. Field surgery was practiced.
Women and children were drafted into
the work of relief. Car doors were torn
off and used as stretchers and everything
possible that could be done was accom-
plished.
Out along the wire fences we're laid
"a heads, and somewhere under the
rough covering were the arms. legs and
trunks. The sight was sickening. 1t
seemed a grateful fact that families had
not been separated, The lack of water
caused much delay and dozen mangled
little ones breathed their last under the
scrub oaks on the seat cushions. Fires
we're built to heat water. The farmers
brought water in milk cans. The field
hospital was operating among the piles
of dead until eight o'clock, when the last
bodies which could be found were taken
out and placed on special train for
Chicago.
Families Joined in Death.
No mothers were seeking children nor
children mothers. Both mothers and
children who had been in the ill-fated
cars had been killed. An hour after the
wreck the side of the track was covered
with wounded and dying for distance
of quarter of mile. The mutilation