The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-07-23

chicago dispatcn.-lWenty persons
were killed, sixty-eight seriously In
jured and half hundred others
scratched and bruised at G:55 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon at Glenwood.
ILL.,, when an excursion train OF elev-
en- coaches on the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois railroad, bearing 654 members
OF Doremus Congregational chapel OF
Chicago crashed into a loaded coal
train.
The excursion train left the picnic
grounds at Momence, H.. at o'clock.
The entire day had been spent at
games and outdoor pleasures. and
the tired crowd OF men. women and
children was being hurried to their
homes in the vicinity of the church
at Thirty-first and Butler streets.
The engine, baggage car and one
passenger coach were crushed in the
collision. All of the dead and most
of the injured were In the first coach.
Dead in First Coach.
Orders misunderstood. or negll-
gence OF the train crews, is believed
to have been the cause.
The excursion train, north bound,
had been transferred TO the south
bound track, which was supposed 10
be clear.
All OF the dead and injured were
placed on board special trains and
brought TO Chicago, arriving at Engle.
wood station at midnight.
The injured were removed TO
Englewood Union hospital. while the
dead were taken TO Thlrty-third
street on the relief train. and from
there removed to the morgue, where
| several thousand anxious relatives
crowded to look for their loved ones.
Heartrending Scenes.
The scenes attending the identifica-
f, tion OF the bodies and the receiving
of the injured from the trains has
seldom been equaled in Chicago.
There are three bodies at the
morgue that have not been identified
One is that of small boy The 9TH
ers will probably never be identified
unless by the scraps of cloth that
cling to the pieces of flesh now in
| the morgue. On one slab are the
arms and legs of a small boy, while
on another are the legs, one arm. and
| part of the trunk OF man.
List Of the Dead.
Fred Fantziears, aged 10: Walter
Germinger, aged 10: Mrs. Germlnger
and baby girl daughter; Lena Hitili-
us, aged Ia; Andrew Kramer: Mrs
Ellen Landers. Mrs. Mary Cherry
Mitchell, boy. son OF John Mitchell
superintendent of Sunday school;
William II. Meyer. aged IL; John Pc
duka, aged s. Mamie Poduka, aged 3
Mrs. +. Il. Palmer, Emma Palmer
Miss Learline Palmer, two unidenti-
fed boys, who died at the Englewood
Union hospital shortly after their ar.
rival; two unidentified bodies. AT the
morgue.
Blame Engineer and Conductor.
The officials OF the road. after
thorough investigation Of the causes
of the wreck. place the blame on the
engineer and conductor OF the freight
train. The station agent at Glenwood
informed the engineman that the cx-
cursion train was on the south bound
track and urged him 10 get out OF the
way. He refused 10 take orders from
the agent until shown telegram.
When he endeavored TO reach sid
ing with the train the collision oc-
Cured. The conductor is censured for
permitting the train to be taken to
another track, the action being in con
dict with all rules of railroading.
Chicago dispatch President A. ].
Davidson and other officials OF the
Chicago a. Eastern Illinois railroad
have declared that Engineer r. Il.
Hoxey and Conductor Cooper OF the
freight into which the excursion train
bearing the unhappy Sunday school
picnickers crashed. are responsible for
the terrible calamity Of the collision
and the awful loss OF life that fol
lowed.
These men. with Brakeman Wright.
the fireman. and the fiagman, are now
at Dolton, H.. near the scene OF the
wreck. awaiting the call OF the coro.
uer.
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