The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-14
Collision on Chicago and
 Eastern Illinois.
THE DEADNUMBERTWENT
Outing of Church Has a Sad
 Ending.
0isplaced Switch Throws Picnic Train Onto Wrong Track and It Strikes
 Freight While Going at
 High Speed.

SulCdSO, July lS-l Wcnty peiSoHo were killed and a0out twenty-five in jured tonight in a collision on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad at Glenwood, twenty-three miles south, of this city.
 The collision occurred between picnic train from this city which was returning from Momence, H., and freight train, into he rear end of which it dashed at high rate of speed. The picnic train was on the right hand track coming north and the freight was on the left track. misplaced switch threw the picnic train over on the left track and be- fore the engineer could apply the brakes 1t ran, at forty miles an hour, into the rear of the freight.
 The engine. baggage car and first coach of the picnic tsain were demol ished and all of the killed and injured were on the engine and in the two cars.
 Among the dead are:
 Mrs. Corringer; Miss Corringer; Carl Stewart, IT years of age; Mrs. Ellen Landers; Mrs. Emma Palmer. daughter of Mrs. Landers: Lena Palmer, daugh- ter of Mrs. Palmer and granddaughter of Mrs. Landers; Lena Hipelus, IA years old; Walter Corringer.
 AnnuHi SnuIcn
 The train which was wrecked Jeff the 31st street station of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois this morning for Momence. The picnic was the annual outing of the members of the Dore- mus 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 regular passenger train which Is due in Chicago at S;25.
 When the picnic train reached Chi cago Heights, four miles beyond Glen wood. where the accident took place. if was switched. to the regular south bound track and although 1t was com ing north 1t was given clear track by the operator at Chicago Heights un- til it should reach Glenwood. four miles away.
 Going at Nigh Speed.
 The train. after leaving Chicago Heights, gradually increased its speed and when half the distance between the two stations had been covered. it was plunging along at the rate of for ty miles an hour. Just half way be- tween Chicago Heights and Glenwood there Is A sharp curve and IS the pie nic train tore around this on the south bound track a freight train was back Ing from the southbound to the north bound track. It was partly on both tracks and no train could have passed It in either direction
 The bend is sharp. and the engineer of the picnic train. had no chance to see the freight before he was upon it. ft was too late to do anything but set he air brakes, but before they could take effect the passenger train crashed Into the freight at full speed.
 Went Through Freight.
 The engine and baggage car of the passenger train went clear through the freight and were piled up in a heap of wreckage on the further side of the switch on which the freight was cross ing from one track to the other.
 The first coach of the picnic train plunged straight into the wreckage and buried itself in a mass of kind ling wood under the demolished bag gage car. Nearly all of the passen- gers in the first coach were caught beneath the mass of debris and 1t was here that the loss of life occurred. The people in the rear coaches were piled up and bruised. but all of the serious casualties occurred in the first car.
 The uninjured passengers and the trainmen at once hastened to the relief  the wreckage who were shrieking pite- ously for aid. The scene of the wreck was two miles from any habitation and much delay ensued before some of the injured who were held down by heavy timbers could be extricated Nothing could be done for them until lifting machinery came from Chicago Heights.
 Rescue Work by BOnhres.
 Men were sent running along the IaIr ,,,@ Glenwood asking for aid. and in a short time trains bearing physicians and sup niles for the wounded were on their way from both stations. Darkness had fallen when the second relief train ar rived and the work of rescue and relief went on by the light of large bonfires that were built along the sides of the track of the wreckage taken from the smashed cars,
 It was nearly 10 o'clock when the last of the wounded had been taken from the wreckage and half an hour later the temporary dressings had been ap- plied to the last wound and the train carving its burden started for the city. It was stopped at Sixty-first Street and the dead were taken to various under taking establishments in the suburb of Englewood while the injured were hurried to Englewod Hospital where the first of them were received at apout II o'clock.
 Anxious Crowds Gather.
 When news of the wreck was sent to the vicinity of the church, hundreds oe relatives and friends of the excursion lsts hastened to the station from which the train left in the morning. By 10 o'clock more than 1000 anxious per sons had gathered there and their ex- citement was so great that many or them were uncontrollable.
 A squad of twenty policemen under the command of Sergeant Day was sent to the station to keep order but their efforts were practically unaVaillng The train bearing the uninjured from the wreck did not entsr the city until after l o'clock. Those who escaped the wreck were taken back to Chicago Heights where they were compelled to remain until the wreck was cleared.
 And meanwhile their frantic rela- tions were almost insane with anxiety and desire of obtaining news of them It was nearly o'clock before the aF fn