The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-07-20
DISASTROUS R. R. WRECK
Picnic Train Dashed Into the Rear End
Of a Freight Train.
70 ARE KILLED AND Is BADLY HURT.
The People in the Rear Coaches We're Hurled
From Their Seats and Many Of Them Were
Bruised, But all Of the Serious Casualties
Occurred In the First Car-Was the Outing
Of the Doremas Church.

Chicago, ILL.,, (SpeciaD. - Twenty
persons were killed and about twenty
five injured in a collision OIL the Chica-
go and Eastern Illinois railroad at
Glenwood. ILL.,, twenty-three miles
south of Chicago.
The collision occurred between a
picnic train from Chicago, which was
returning from Momence, H., and
freight train, into the rear end of
which the excursion train dashed at
high speed. The picnic train was
coming north and the freight was on
the southbound track. A misplaced
switch threw the picnic train over on
the southbound track, and before the
engineer could apply the brakes it ran
at forty miles all hour into the rear
Of the freight
The locomotive, the baggage car
and TIE frs. coach of the picnic traI
were demolished and all of the killed
and injured were on the locomotive,
and in the two cars.
The picnic was the annual outing OF
the members of Doremus church
After spending the day on the picnic
grounds at Momence the trainloao
started on the return trip, running in
| second section of the regular pas
senger train which is due in Chicago
at S.25 p. NJ.
When the picnic train reached
Chicago Fl, s.;s, four miles beyond
! Glenwood, where the accident took
southbourd tiask, and although it was
coming north il was given clear
| track Jy ,Le operator at Chicago
Heights until II should reach Glen
wood, tow mites away.
The tran after leaving Chicago
Heights gradually increased its speed,
and vixen ralf :he distance between
| the two stations had been covered it
was pIunsing along at the rate of
| forty mIies al hour Just half way
between Chicago Heights and Glen
wood there is sharp curve. AS
the picnic tram tore around this on
the southbound track freight train
was backing from the southbound to
the northto ound track. 1t was partly
on bo:h tracEs ard no train could have
| passed it in either direction.
The bend is so sharp that then en-
gneer Of The picnic train did not see
the freight .,::;il he was about on it.
| 1t was too la:e TO do anything but
set the braces, but before they could
take efcc; tie passenger train smash
ed into the freight at full speed. The
locomotive and baggage car of the
passenger train went through the
freight ard were piled mp in heap
of wreckage on the farther side of the
switch track. The first coach of the
picnic train plunged into the wreck
age and buried itself in mass of
kinding wood.
Nearly ali of the passengers in tt.
first coach were caught beneath tn
mass of debris and it was here that
the loss of life occurred.
| The people i'll the rear coaches were
hurled from their seats and many
of them were bruised, but all of the
serious casualties occurred in the
first car. The uninjureI passengers
and trainmen at once hastened to the
relief of those who were pinned under
the wreckage The wreck was two
miles from anywhere, and much delay
ensued before some of the injured,
who were held down by heavy tim
| bers, could be cxtricated.