The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-14
Sunday School Picnic Excursion
Train Cuts Freight i'm Two.
FORTY MILES AN HOUR.
Party Was Flying HOmeward
After a Day of Pleasure.
Hardly a Person in First Coach
Escaped Death or In jury.

anu oQlleT went 10 QCdlA
with joy in their hearts and a hymn on
their lips. Seventy people. mostly chill
dren, members of the same Sunday
school, were manned and mangled at
the same time.
The carnage occurred in a collision
on the tracks of the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois railroad between Chicago
Heights and Glenwood. rs miles from
Chicago. Wednesday was the annual
picnic of the Sunday school and in
FORMER years, hundreds of the children
with their parents and friends had
gone to the picnic grounds at Momenee,
Ill, for the day. The picnic was over
and the train was on the return to
Chicago when the accident occurred
The children in the first coach were
singing as the train passed through
Chicago Heights, q miles from Chi
cago. Two miles further the train went
on and the singing was hushed in
death for over score, and cries OF
pain and horror for 20 others
Two accidents combined to make the
Disaster. The first was the breaking
down of freight train on the north
bound track, on which the excursion
train should have proceeded after leaV-
ing Chicago Heights and the other was
the breaking of coupling on a second
freight train.
Running Forty Miles an Hour.
Because the first train had blocked
the rightful track the excursion train
switched to the southbound track to
run for four miles until 1t should have
passed the station of Glenwood just
north of Chicago Heights AS it tore
along the track at the rate OF 40 miles
an hour it rounded 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 1t believed was on the north /
bound track There was no time for
more than the setting of the brakes, /
when with unsIackened speed the train
with its load OF 500 men. women, and
children crashed at full speed into the |
freight. There was a shock shrek,
and over 20 souls were 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 il and /
the mass of people was hurled against |
the wreck of the baggage car and no
body in the dense pack of people in the 1
forward end of that first coach escaped I
death or serious injury /
The dead and injured are as follows;
The Dead.
CARL STEWART II years.
MRS. ELLEN LANDERS.
MRS. EMMA PALMER, daughter
of Mrs. Landers-
LENA PALMER, daughter of Mrs.
Palmer and granddaughter of Mrs.
Landers-
LENA HIPELIUS. IA years.
MRS. CERRINGER-
MISS CERRINGER-
WALTER c. ERRINGER, Is years.
MRS. KATHERINE GERRINGER.
WALTER GERRINGER. years
FRANCIS GERRINGER, ? years.
ANDREW CRAMER.
MRS. CARRIAGE.
WILLIAM H. MEYR, II years.
JOHN PODUDA, s years.
MAMIE PODCDA. years.
Five unidentified children.
The Injured.
Frederick Dewitt, conductor of pic
mic train; both legs broken.
Frank Koutney, years; right
ankle broken, left leg crushed
John Krihaska, 10 years; right leg
Josie Probaski. years; back bro
ken; will die
John Burkey. Is years; skull frac-
Mrs. Nellie Titag, back broken; will
Katie Gerringer. years; right hip
dislocated.
Tony O'Mitsky. IL years; legs bad
Iy cut
Ida EckIand. arm broken.
Edward Storers, body severely
Walter Harder. IL years; both legs
and arms broken
Alice Cherry, years; right leg
Mary williams, years; right leg
broken.
Harry Gustafson. 10 years; body
bruised and cut.
Ruth Gustafson. internally injured;
may die.
Mrs Max Ruter, face cut
Lulu Ruter. years; cut about
head.
Ethel Ruter, years; cut about
Gus Swanson. cut about face and
head 5
Thomas f. Duffy. cut severely on
Mamie Dambriche. years; left leg
broken
Daisy Smith, IL years; both legs !
Mrs Lizzie Hipelus. mother of Lena
who was killed; internal in {
5urles, right leg broken
Louise Hipelus, IL years; right leg /
broken.
Emma Hipelius. IA years; left leg {
broken. :
Margaret Hipelius. years; left arm
Louis Hipelius. 10 years; left leg /
broken {
Mrs. Mary Cotton. back cut
Rosie Cotton, II years; head cut. I
Mamie WillSin. years; right leg
broken
Agnes Weiss. head cut
Carl Schon, right leg broken
Gustave Schon, left arm cut.
Puddle Schon. head cut
George Duffy, g years; internal in y
juries- y
FRANK DuIIys IL years. internal IN
juries: may die
William Johnson, right leg broken. t
Michael Kavanaugh, right leg U
broken. II
Miss Ida Eklund. skull fractured; c
may die. b
Archie Nell. bruised about body.
Barbara Volkstrof, II years; both ]
legs broken.
Walter Dougherty. IL years; left I
leg broken.
Anna Punaday. right leg broken. :