The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-08-19
SEVERAL KILLED in
A Bad COLLISION
Mother and Three Little Chill.
dren Met instant Death
in the Crash.
FATHER BADLY INJURED
Chicago and Erie Freight and BaIti.
more and Ohio Passenger Met at
Crossing in Chicaeo-sioux
City Person Hurt.

Chicago. Aug. ia mother and her
three little children were killed and a:
number of other persons seriously in
jured in a collision between a west
bound Baltimore and Ohio local pas
Senger train known as No. IL and a
Chicago and Erie freight train at the
Brighton Park railroad crossing at
Western avenue and West Thirty-ninth
street. The collision followed frantic
effort on the part of the crossing flag
man to change the course of the freight
train. to the crew of which he had
given signal that all was clear for
them to back over the Baltimore and
Ohio tracks. The passenger train,
when was approaching rapidly, was
struck by the freight cars, and two
OF the coaches We're overturned. One
OF the freight cars crashed through the
woodwork of one of the coaches where
the four who We're killed We're seated,
They We're family of five, and C. C.
schwartz, the father, was the only one
who escaped with his life. Although
taken from the wreck unconscious and
SUFFERING from broken bones it is be-
leVed his injuries will not prove fatal.
The mother and three children We're,
killed instantly.
Dead:
MRS. c. c. SCHWARTZ, IS years
old. Garrett. Ind.
JOHN L. SCHWARTZ, S years old.
WILLIAM SCHWARTZ. years old.
EARL SCHWARTZ, years old
The two youngest children were
twins.
The injured:
c. c. Schwartz, Garrett, Ind. thigh
broken, left leg crushed, taken to Mercy
hospital. (Mr. Schwartz is the father
of the three children and husband of
the woman killed.
Michael Cusak, engineer, in charge
OF the Chicago and Erie train, which
was running on the Panhandle tracks,
body bruised and internally injured.
Z. w. Jones. Mansfield, o., conductor
on the Baltimore and Ohio train, right
leg broken and body bruised.
Miss Jennie Sunderland, Sioux City,
Ia. body bruised and wrist sprained
Miss Nellie Brown, New York city.
body bruised and internally injured.
c. G. Harnold, Chicago. thrown from
train, body bruised.
Mrs. M. e. Fry and nephew, both Sc
verely injured
A rigid Investigation will be made to
determine who was responsible for the
accident. Coroner John E. Traeger, as
soon as notified of the wreck, fastened
personally to the scene to determines
where. the blame lies.
The officials Of the Chicago and Erie
and the Baltimore and Ohio roads also
sent agents to the scene. and declare.
that they will see to it that the guilty
are punished.
The police arrested Harry Moore
brakeman, and Benjamin F. Waller,
conductor of the freight train that
caused the disaster. Waller in his
statement to the police. declared that
the signal man in an adjoining tower
was to blame for the accident, as he
according to Waller. gave the signal
for the freight to come ahead, giving 1t
the right OF way. After 1T had started
he reversed the signal, but then it was
too late to prevent the collision.
Besides Moore and Waller, six other
railroad men were taken into custody.
The others arrested are: Matthew
Clarissy, semaphore man at crossing;
George Bodily. engineer of freight train;
John Landgraff, fireman of freight
train; j. w. Mclaughlin, engineer Of
passenger train; Charles H. Allen, con-
ductor of passenger train; H. McPheet-
Hr, fireman of passenger train.