Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-08-26
FOUR KILLED IN
CHICAGO WRECK
Three Trolley Cars Returning
From Races Strike Great
Western Train.
rWENTY-THREE INJURED
OF These One Will Die-Brakes on the
Trolley Car Would Not Work.
Motorman Remained at His
Post Until Last.

Chicago, Aug. 19.-Four people were
killed, one fatally hurt and twenty
three severely hurt in a collision be-
tween an express train on the Chicago
and Great Western railroad and a train
Of three trolley cars returning from
the Hawthorne race track.
Dead:
MRS. FRANCIS KAUFMAN.
WILLIAM IRVING, died in hospital
after amputation Of leg.
MRS. JEREMIAH SHUCKROW,
Danville, Ill.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, about 80
years old.
The fatally injured:
MICHAEL RYAN, motorman OF troll
ley car, skull fractured.
Injured:
j. II. Lyman, scalp cut.
Edward Riley. legs cut and hands
crushed.
Abel Golden, hand crushed.
Mrs. w. w. Gleason, head cut.
Mrs. Kate McCrary. head cut.
Jeremiah ~ShuclSrow. Danville, Ill,
ankle twisted.
Rosa Moran, arm cut.
Louise Moran. head cut.
Mrs. L. Moran, ankle sprained.
Randall landau, face cut.
Mrs. Margaret Good. head cut.
William Tennis. head slightly cut.
Mrs. 70. l.. Perry, leg badly twisted.
Jesse Rogers, Danville, ILL.,, right an
'kle and right wrist cut.
j. j. McHale, right leg broken.
Albert Gonzales and Frank Nolan
were known to be passengers on the
first car and have not been seen since
the accident. 1t is thought that they
were slightly injured and walked away
looking for surgical attendance.
Brakes Would Not Work.
The accident occurred 1T the cross
ing OF Forty-eighth avenue and the
Chicago Great Western track. The
train was coming into the city, and, ac-
cerding to some witnesses of the acct
dent, was running at a high rate OF
speed. Others and the train crew de-
clare that 1T was not going over twenty
miles an hour. The trolley train, which
was made up of a motor car and two
trailers and was In charge of Conductor
w. H Condor and Motorman Michael
Ryan, approached the crossing at a
rapid speed just as, the train cam
around a sharp curve to the west of
the crossing. Ryan put on the brakes
with all his strength in the effort to
stop his car, but the brakes refused to
work, and with undiminished speed the
motor car ran upon the tracks at the
same time that the locomotive came
up. The car struck the train Just be-
tween the engine and tenuer, The
motor car was torn to splinters. the car
Immediately behind was knocked over,
smashed nearly to pieces and dragged
along the track for nearly 100 feet.
The third car vas dragged from the
tracks, and but for the fact that thu
couplings between it and the second
trailer broke, the list of injured would
probably be larger, as all the cars were
filled with passengers.
Motorn1an Ryan remained at his post
% the last and was fatally hurt, his
skull being fractured. To people who
came to aid him while he lay on the
ground he said:
The brakes would not work; that
was what caused it. When / saw that
they would not work / reversed the
current. Now get aside and be quick,
and l will be all right"
Immediately after saying this Ryan
became unconscious and vas taken in
hat condition to the hospital. II was
said that his skull was fractured and
his death is a matter of hours only.
The scene of the accident is in the
suburbs, and it was some time before
ambulances and the patrol wagons and
physicians could reach the place to aid
the injured. but the uninjured passen-
gers and one physician, who was a pas
genger on the rear of the trolley train,
together with the members of the train
crew, did all possible to aid the suffer