The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-07-22
TWENTY-FIVE ARE
KILLED IN WRECK
Collision Of a Picnic Train and
Fast Freight at Glenwood,
Illinois.
CAUSED BY OPEN SWITCH
Picnic Train Loaded With Pleasure
Seekers Was Running at High
Rate of Speed-Sixty Eight
Injured.

Hate or Speed-Slxty Eight
Injured.
Chicago, July 15.-Twenty-two peo
pie were killed and sixty eight injured
in collision on the Chicago and East
ern Illinois railroad at Glenwood,
tWenty-three miles south of this city.
The collision occurred between a pic
mic train from this city, which was re-
turning from Momence, H., and :,
freight train, into the rear end of
which ii dashed at a high rate of speed.
The dead
CARL STEWART, Il years old.
MRS. ELLEN LANDERS.
MRS. EMMA PALMER, daughter of
Mrs. Landers.
LENA PALMER. daughter of Mrs,
Palmer and granddaughter of Mrs.
L;,n;lers.
LENA HPILIus. IA years old
ANDREW KRAMER.
WM. MYERICK, u years old.
JOHN PODuDA, s years old
MAMIE PODUDA. s years old.
NINE UNIDENTIFIED CHILDREN.
MRS. CARRIAGE.
MRS. CATHERINE GERRINGER
WALTER GERRINGER, I years old
FRANCIS GERRINGER, years old.
The injured;
Agnes Weiness. head cut
a. Schon. right leg broken
tiuStavuS Schon, left arm cut.
Buddie Schon, head cut.
George Duffy, is years old, internal
injuries.
Frank Duffy, II years old, Internal
injuries: may die.
William johnson, right leg broken
Michael kavanaugh right leg broll-
Miss la Ecklund, skull fractured;
may die.
Archie Nell, bruised about body.
Barbara Nolkstrow, II years old both
legs broken.
Walter Dougherty, 10 years old, left
leg broken.
Anna Punaday, right leg broken.
Mrs Catherine Hereen, right leg
broken.
Mrs. Elizabeth Healy, both legs
broken, internal injuries; will die
Mrs May Wilkin, bruised about body.
Sadie Wilkin. years old, leg brok en-.
Joseph Shock, left leg broken,
bruised about the body
Henry Bush, head cut.
Lizzie PierSon, II years old, internal
injuries.
Mrs Anna Pierson, left leg broken.
Mrs c. klecllan, internal injuries;
may die.
Mrs Anna Daubriche, injured in
ternally: right leg broken.
Charles Daubriche, a years old, right
leg broken.
Mamie Daubriche, 5 years old, leg
broken.
Daisy Smith, II years old, both legs
broken.
Mrs. Hipilus, mother of Lena Hipil-
Jus. who was killed. internal injuries
right leg broken.
Louis Hipilius, right leg broken. in
jured internally.
Margaret Hipilius, years old, right
arm broken.
Louis Hipilius. 10 years old. left leg
broken.
Mrs. Mary Cotton. back hurt.
Rosie Cotton, Il years old. head cut.
Mamie Wilkin, 8 years old, right leg
broken.
Mrs. Mary Courtney. back injured.
Frank Courtney, Is years old, back
injured.
Carrie Mowatt, 8 years old leg bro
ken.
Mrs. John Mowatt, head bruised.
James Smith, II years old, left leg
cut.
Frederic Dewitt, conductor of picnic
train, both legs broken.
Frank koutney, 9 years old, right
ankle broken, left leg crushed
!. John keyhasha, 10 years old, right
leg broken.
Rosie Probaski, s years old, back
broken: Will die.
John Burkey, IL years old, skull frac-
,tured.
Mrs. Nellie Tigag, back broken; will
die
Katie Gerringer, years old. right
hip dislocated.
Tony Omistcky, legs badly cut.
Edward StorerS. arms bruised
Walter Barbour, both legs and arms
broken.
Alice Cherry years old. right leg
Mary Williams. Z years old, right leg
broken.
Harry Gustafson, 10 years old, body
bruised and cut
Ruth Gustafson, internally injured:
may die
Mrs. Max Rutter. face cut.
Lula Rutter, 3 years old, cut about
the head.
Barbara Forster, years old. head
cut
lsador Forster, arm cut
Willard Stenhart, left arm broken
Ethel Rutter, A years old, cut about
head.
Gus Swanson, cut about face and
head.
Thos. E. Duffey. cut severely on right
leg.
David Smith, 10 years Old. internal in
juries "a
Adolph Hirsli", left arm crushed.
Mrs. Hulda Stewart, wife of Charles
Stewart, killed, head cut.
Two accidents combined to make. the
disaster. The first was the breaking
down Of freight train on the north
bound track on which tho rYc,I.Si, !,
train should have proceeded after
leaving Chicago Heights, and the other
was the breaking of a coupling on n
second freight train. Because the first
train had blocked the lightfuI track.
the excursion train switched 10 tie
southbound track to run Cor ro,lr miles
until 1T should have passed the station
OF Glenwood just north of Chicago
Heights. AS it tore along the tract,
at the rate of forty miles an hour. If
rounded full curve and came uron
the second train, which VAS backing
up on the southbOund track
Demolished Engine.
The engine. baggage car and first
coach or the picnic train We're denol-
ished and all OF the killed ana wound
ed were on the engines and the two
cars.
The train switch was wrecked left
the Thirtyfirst street station of the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois for Mo-
mence. Ill. The picnic was the am
nual outing of the members OF the
Doremus church. formerly a chapel of
Plymouth Congregational church of
this city After spending the day on
the picnic grounds at Momence the
train started on the return trip. run
ming in as the second section of the