The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-11-13
ID Train Wreck on Baltimore
ii Ohio r. r.
NEAR CHICAGO, YESTERDAY
More Than 80 Injured III Collision Of I'M
migrant with Freight Train, Due to
Detective Signals People Roast
ed in Car wreckage.

Chicago, m Nov, ls, Forty-seycn
persons arc known " have been crushed
and bsrncd Il death and eighty others
seriously and perhaps fatally injured
IL d head-on collision near Woodville,
Iudg forty eight miles out Of Chicago,
yesterday, between the second section &c
y Baltimore 4 Ohio train and fa-t
freight train
The wreck resulted from the lack of
proper signals on tile first section of
the immigrant train. All but one 81
the six ears On the passenger train were
burned and all but six 1T the bodies
were iueinerated.
The outgoing freight train, No os,
stopped At BabcoclS Ind. to allow the
first section Va nv. 4s, THE Immigrant
train, 10 pass Tile engineer did moi
see green light on the forward End
to Indicate that the second section
was following, He started his train
forward.
The engineer on the second section
of the Immigrant train did likewise. II
Is believed he thought the track was
clear The trains were running al full
speed when they met on cilrye one.
quarter Of mile west OF Woodyille.
The only warning the sleeping foreign
ers had was the shfieks 81 the engine
whistles and the jerk 0f The stopping
passenger COACHES The next moment
the crash came and the cars lett the
rails.
At the Grand Central station here i
crowd OF foreigners waited for their
friends who Mere on the wrecked train.
News Of the disaster was withheld until
the crowd became unrulv When 1t was
finally announced, the crowd burst into
outcries Of anger, demanding vengeance
Special details Of police were called To
handle the Infatuated foreigners
Relief trains We're started al once for
the scene from Chicago and surrounding
towns. When they arrived scene
shocking to the sight presented itself
The two engines made up one pile OF
twisted and crushed steel and iron Tho
coaches were smashed into unreeogniz.
able heaps. Flames we're slowly creep
ing up this pile, making the work Of
rescue almost impossible. From every
hole in the line Of smashed ears could
be seen half clad, bleeding and scorched
victims crawling TO safety. They were
taken to nearby farmhouses and at.
tended
]. S, Robbins, a merchant at McCool
Ind. was one Of the first to reach the
scene. lie told this:
cit was the worst wreck for years
| according TO the railroad men. Boil
engines were smashed into bits, and
am sure there were forty seven men
women and children burned like rat.
in a trap.
Il went to the wreck on train made
up at McCool and never saw anything
like It. The cars were telescoped and
! the engines reduced 20 scrap iron. Wher
| left all but one Of The ears had beer
burned down TO ashes, leaving but .
skeleton Of steel and iron bars.
II saw them life the fireman OUT
from beneath bis engine. He was dead
but not burned. The fireman ON th,
| freight jumped and escaped.
"fhe ground was covered with snow
and the suffering among those foreign
ers was pitiful From the looks Of thu
wreck, | am surprised that anyone es
capped alive
\ One hundred and sixfy-seven passen
gers were on the impfgrant train. OF
this number six dead bodies and twely,
[ persons have been accounted for. in
GLIDING the six dead and the rcmainin,
forty have not been accounted for.
OF the III persons rescued more thar
half were severely burned. IL is re
ported that many Of the injured wer'
so severely crushed and burned tina
about half Of thcm will not recover.