The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-14
EXCURSION RAN
INTO A FREIGHT
FrightfuI Wreck on the Chicago
and Eastern Illinois Road.
TWENTY-FIVE PEOPLE KILLED
INJURED NUMBER OVER THREE
SCORE.

CHICAGO. July 13-This evening
L. twenty-five members of the sun
day school of Doremus Congregs-
tional church at Tlirty-frst aud Butler
streets went to death with joy in
their hearts and a hymn ON their lips
/ Seventy people. mostly children. mem
/ bers OF the same sunday school, were
MANNED and mangled at the same
time.
The carnage occurred in a collision
I on the tracks of the Chicago < East
ern Illinois railroad between Chicago
Heights and GlenWOod, twenty-five
miles from Chicago. Today was TIE
annual picnic Of the Sunday school.
and, as IN former years, hundreds OF
( the children with their parents and
/ friends mad gone TO the picnic grounds
J at Momence, Ills, for the day. The
picnic was over and the train was on
the return TO Chicago when the acct
dent occurred
The children in TIE first coach were
/ singing S the train passed through
+ Chicago Heights. twenJy-seven miles
+ from Chicago. Two miles further the
+ train went on, and then the singing
/ was hUshed in death for over d score,
/ and cries of pain and horror for sew
I enty others.
/ Two Accidents Combined.
Two accidents combined to make the
I disaster. The first was tie breaking
. down Of a freight train on the north
I bound track, on which the excursion
J train should have proceeded after
/ leaving Chicago Heights, and the 9TH
I CT was the breaking of a coupling on
/ a second freight train
Because the first train had blocked
the Tightful track. the excursion train
I was switched to the southbound track
3 to run for four miles until il should
have PASSED the station of GlenwOOd,
I just north Of Chicago Heights. A iC
1 tore along the track at the rate OF
forty miles an hour, il rounded a sharp
curve and came full upon the second
train. which. was backing up on the
! southbOund track in order to take up
its lost cars and trying at the same
time to keep out of the way of the
+ coming picnic train. which it believed
+ was on the nOTthbOUnd track. There
/ was no time for more than the set
Z ting of the brakes. when with I'M
? siackened speed, the train. with its
. load OF 300 men, women and children,
! crashed at full speed into the freight.
/ There was a shock, q shrek, and over
/ twenty souls We're in eternity.
/ The people in the first car were
: thrown up against the front of their
! car, which plunged up against the end
/ of the baggage car Just ahead of it.
and the mass of people was hurled
/ against tie wreck of the baggage car
/ and nobody in the dense pack Of people
I IL the forward end OF that Hfst- cosCn
/ escaped death or serious injury
The Dead.
I Carl Stewart. i years.
Mrs. Ellen Landers.
/ Airs. Emma Palmer. daughter Of Mrs.
! LanderS
4 Lena Palmer. daughter of Mrs. Palmer
+ and granddaughter of Mrs. ISLANDERS.
Lena Hipelus. Il years old
/ AudTeE Kramer.
/ William II. Meyer 7 wears
/ John Poduda. $ years.
Mamie POduds, 3 years
+ Nine unidentified children
The Injured.
AIRS Mary Courtney. back injured.
Frank Courtney, 10 years. both feet in
carrie 3Towett. T. years. left leg broken.
Mrs. John M0Wett. head bruised.
( Charles smith u years. left leg cut.
James Nolkstorff- years, both feet
Mrs. Frank zttnk left leg badly
bruised
/ 3lrs. o. Cerringer
Miss Cerringer
Walter CerTinger. - years old
Frederick Dewitt conductor of picnic
lTaln. DOtn legs broken
Frank koutney, Q wears old. ri-nt ankle
{ broken. left leg crushed.
John Krihaska. 10 years old right leg
Rosie. ProbaskI. years old. back brok-
john Burkey. Is years old. skull frac-
AIRS. Nellie Tigag. back broken. viii de.
Katie CeTringer, years old. right hip
Tony l. Mitsly. Il years old. legs badly
F cut.
Edward store-s. head severely bruised
4 Walter Barber. Il years. both legs and
Alice cherry. $ years old, right Les
Mary Williams. : years old. right leg
HaTry. Gustafsen. 10 years. zody bruised
Ruth Gustafsen. internally injured may
die.
Mrs. Max Ruter. face cut,
llulu IuJer. ) years cut about head
L.thel Ruter. years; cut about head
Gus Swanson, cut about face and head
Thomas z Duffy. cut severely on right
Agnes weiss. head cut
Carl Schon. right leg broken
I Gustavus Schon, left arm cut
Buddie AChesOn. head cut.
/ George Duffy, 10 years, internally in
William johnson. right leg broken.
Michael Eavanaugh right leg broken.
Miss Ida Eklund. skull fractured, may
Archie Nell. bruised about body.
Barbara Volstrok, Il years old, both leg
broken
! Walter Dougherty, p years old, left leg
{ broken
Anna. Punaday. right leg. broln.
Mrs. Catherine Heren, right leg broken.
Mrs Elizabeth Heaiy. both leg broken.
/ internal injuries; viii die
Mrs. Nav Wilkin. bruised about body
Miss wilkins. left leg broken.
/ Joseph SchOck. bruised about body
/ Henry Busch head cut
Z Lizzie Pearson. IL years old. internal ITl-
/ juries.
Mss Anna Pearson. left leg broken
Mrs. C. Ecklund, internal injuries; may
Mrs. Anna Daubriehe, injured Internal
/ ". right leg broken.
Mamie Daubriche. years old. left lee
1 broken.
Daisv smith. II years, both legs broken
Mrs Lizzie Hipelus mother of Lena
HipeIus who was killed, internal injuries
Louise Hipelius, z years. right leg
Emma IIipeIius. j years. left leg broken
Margaret Hipelius, 1 years, left arm
broken.
Mrs Mary Cotton. back cut
Rosie Cotton. II years. head cut
Mamie wilkins years, right les
broken.
Adolph Hirseh. left arm crushed
| Barbara Forster, 4 years, head cut
/ Tsidor Forster. arm cut
/ Ms. Huida Stewart. vito Of Charles
Stewart killed head cut
Edward Steinhart. LETT arm broken
Church Picnic Party.
The train which was wrecked left
the T-l7i.-tv-first street station of the