The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-14
EIGHTEEN ARE KILLED IN
WRECK OF PICNIC TRAIN
DASHES INTO n FREIGHT JUST
OUTSIDE CHICAGO

Another and No Train Could Pass in
Either Direction - Operator Had
Given the Excursion CIear Track
sixty-eight Persons Injured.
Chicago, July 1S.-Eighteen persons
We're killed and about sixty-eight in
! jured tonight in collision on the Chi
cago & Eastern Illinois railroad at
Glenwood, H., twenty-three miles south
Of Chicago.
The collision occurred between pic
mic train from Chicago, which was re-
turning from Momence, ILL.,, and a
\ freight train in the rear end Of which
the excursion train dashed at high
speed.
The picnic was the annual outing Of
the members Of Doremus church. After
spending the day on the picnic grounds
at Momence, the train load started on
the return trip, running in as the sec
ond section of the regular passenger,
which is due in Chicago at S:25 p. m.
When tlra picnic train reached Chicago
Heights, four miles beyond Glenwood,
where the accident took place, it was
switched to the regular south bound
track, and although it was coming
north it was given a clear track by
the operator at Chicago Heights until
it should reach Glenwood. four miles
away The train after leaving Chicago
Heights gradually increased its speed,
and when half the distance between the
two stations had been covered, 1t was
plunging along at the rate of forty
miles an hour. Just half way between
Chicago Heights and Glenwood, there
1 is a sharp curve AS the picnic train
tore around this on the south bound
track, a freight train was backing from
the north bound to the south bound
track. It was partly on both tracks.
and no train could have passed It in
Ieither direction The bend is SO sharp
that the engineer Of the picnic train
did not see the freight until he was
about on it. 1t was too late to do any
thing but to set the brakes. but before
they could take affect the passenger
4 train smashed into the freight at full
speed. The locomotive and the baggage
car of the passenger train went
through the freight and piled up IN
heap or wreckage on the further side
of the switch track. The first coach
/ of the picnic train ploughed into the
\ wreckage and buried itself in a mass Of
kindling wood.
Nearly all of the passengers in tie
first coach were caught beneath the
mass Of debris, andit was here that the
loss Of life occurred,
The people In the rear coaches were
hurled from their seats and many were
bruised, but all of the serious casual
lties occurred in the first car. The un-
injured passengers and trainmen at
once hastaned to the relief of those
who were pinned under the wreckage.
The wreck was two miles from sta
4 tion, and much delay ensued before
some OF the injured, who were held
down by heavy timbers, could be ex-
Itricated. Nothing could be done for
them until lifting machinery came from
Chicago Heights and it carried six
physicians. "A short time afterwards a
second train arrived from Glenwood,
bringing additional physicians and a
number of nurses. Darkness had fallen
and rescue work went on by the light
lof bonfires.
i A regular relief train was made up
lat Glenwood, and brought the dead
land wounded to Chicago.
Among the dead are: Carl Stewart,
Mrs. Ellen Landers, Mrs. Emma Palm
er, daughter Of Mrs Landers; Lena
Palmer, daughter of Mrs. Palmer; Lena
lHipelius, Mrs. Gerringer Miss Gerrin-
ger, Walter GeTTinger, Andrew Kramer,
William II. Meyer, 10 years; John PEE
duda, 8 years; Mamie Peduda, 3 years.
Nine unidentified children. All the dead
5Ilived in Chicago as do all the injured,
most of whom are children.
The injured include Frederick De-
witt, conductor, leg broken; Frank
Koutney, John Kribaska, Rosie Probas-
i XII, 8 years, back broken; John Burkey,
4 skull fractured; Mrs. Nellie Tigag, back
broken; Katy Gerringer, Tony omitsky,
Ida Eckland, Edward Storters, Walter
Barber. 10 years, both legs and both
arms broken; Alice Cherry, Mary Will
| liams, Harry Gustafson, Ruth Gustaf-
son. internal, may die; Mrs. Nav Ruter,
4 Lulu Ruter, Ethel Ruter, Gus Swanson,
IThomas E. Duffey, Agnes Weiss, Carl
Schon, Gustavus Schon, Buddie Schon,
George Duffy, Frank Duffy, william
johnson, Michael Kavanaugh, Archie
INeiI. Barbara Volkstrof, Walter Dough-
i erty, Anna Punaday, Mrs. Catherine
Hereen, Mrs. Elizabeth Healy, both legs
broken, internal injuries, will die; May
Wilkin, Sadie Wilkin, Henry Bush, Liz
zie Pearson. Mrs. Anna Pearson, Mrs.
i G. Ecklund, Mrs. Anna Daubriche,
Charles Daubriche. Mamie Daubriche,
Daisy Smith, Mrs. Lizzie Hipelius
About rs per cent. of the injured sus-
tained fractured legs In many cases
both legs were broken. Ella Hipelius,
Louise Hipelius Margaret Hipelius,
Hipelius, Mrs. Marty Cotton, Rose Cot
i ton, Mamie Wilkin.
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