The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-07-23
KILLED !. i. in A CRASH. C;R|iI Isl;
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TWENTY-FOUR PICNfGKERSl
sTHE VICTIMS IN AZ RAiEs-,.a ,a;.
Z. e ROAD DISASTER NEAR -
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Fifty Persons Were Also Injured
Train Dashes Head d-Ona into a
Heavy Coal Train on Their
Return from Church
I Outing.
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Return from Church
Outing.
Chicago, July 15.-An excursion
train on the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois Railroad, which was hurry
ing back to theacity with one 'thous-
andlof the1meffynaksrs Of the Do4.1 4
remus Chapefat( gougregatfoBal)
Sanday,seheol on board, crashed
into freight train betweenaG Ghiea-
gorheightsI and Glen wood sat S't
Clock 'sohight. s;T#entyifonr per-
sons were killed and ffty injured.
Among the dead are many women
and children
The Sunday.school children aud
their children assembled at the
chapel this morning. A special
train on the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois, consisting Of ten coaches
and baggage cal, had been chart.
cred. Under the direction of Supt.
Booth, sof. the Sunday schools sthey
boarded the train at, Thirty-hrs
street, and in three hours were on
the banks of the Kankabee river, at
Momence, Ill. It was Ago when
| the tired :trravelefs returned to the
coaches and. the trip back to- tie
citya hegaui re.pgst3 9: t:a.i T sist5.,.;,
All weht well until Chieago;
Heights, twenty five: miles south of:
the city, was reached. There the
conductor received orders to- switch
the train atoothe west track, which
is the regular south. bound traekr
Observation-Disclosures
| would be clear to Gfenwood, three
miles north. In q few minutes the
1traihs VAS Under full sspeed en the
tnoTthward Journey.
i SsafeelN twoi miles had beehl GOV.
tered when, rounding curve, the
rear half of "a fcoalaand freight train
was encountered. The freight was
j attempting to, put of: the: track on
q "a sliding, but had broken in two.
I Before the train men could get the
sf rear cars off the track the excursions
.Estt tlskI stleIa / { The engineiplopghsd
FL diPfesaA lsslssaooss aaa llRhss
4 The baggage can was liftedshigh
il it, the sosa1 Hs, ssseg 9 ILL.,. ss
tsred sass ssnnddadSsBdlildeg. fss s sleond
and third coaches were telescoped
az Thsn snsssssssda eassad llaPSH,aaap and
! death. WomSh ,ddd Addiaren, in
!, jured and dying, screamed in ter
rorsn Many were pinioned beneath
wreckage in the first two, ooaehes.
Fire WAS communicated from the
engine to TIE wreck Of the baggage
: car, but it was fortunately extin
J guished by The passengers; befofe II
reached the dead and dying. Near
lily all those in.the Elk rear coaches
were thrown. from their Seats and
many were cut by shattered glass
Beyond this but few were >ipjured
III HeSG VHdGH9Ss
Ths menson tha ha1rains began til,
work of rescue led by the trainmen
The, freight, engine was .;ssnt, tt
Glenwood. where al ! was summon
ed, from Chicago and Chicago
Heights. With the aid of axes anG
iron bars the dead and injured wer'
released and placed on the grass
beside the track. }'i- @629 : :
Darkneashad by this time spreat
lover the scene and bonfres wer
made beside the wrecked coaches
for thezpurpose Of illumieatian
Fully 500 women and, children
i weeping hystericall J !, sssuf fopa ade,
d the fesepers. sInshaff an hcnZ. th
phgsieia b stffom Gbieags sikhl
wefepn
relief train from Chicago was on th
way rNearly all the. dead1were un
: nef the fret coach, The majelFist;;
LOT the injured were. 3in tie. aseond
K i The Mstbfk of resetahgg resi- 8 was not not cor i
pletsd until aas men of the refis
, train had put in1tmofhours of5bah
work. Twenty-felrI adeadi zhodie
l, were beside the track, and ten {
the injured afe Ieaid40 have recefy
led mnrtai huris.o . IE was smidnigh
when the relief train, with the liz
ing and dead, steamed into the Er
: iiglewood station.
, There twenty Of the injured wer
o transferred to hospitals. At Thil
,e ty-6rst street the hysterical an
E panic-stricken women and childre
who escaped with their lives got of
la crowd Of 5000 friends receive