The Washington herald., 1906-11-13

Chicago. Nov Fifty persons are
known to have been trapped and burned
to death. and eighty Others. seriously in
ju-ed in a Head-on collision carly to-day
near Woodvinc. Ind. forty-eight mile.
from Chicago. in which a Baltimore and
Ohio immigrant train was smashed by a
fast freight train
The wreck resulted from the lack OF
proper signals on the first section of tn,
immigrant train, the Baltimore and Ohio
officials say.
All but one of the six cars on The pas
seager train were burned, and all but six
of the bodies were incinerated. and the
horrcr grew as details became known.
Twenty-Five bodies. burned beyond rec
ognition. were dug out OF the wreck late
this afternoon.
The known Dead.
FRANK EENNEBMAN passenger engineer Gar
rCtt Ind
ALBERT CULLEES passenger fireman.
Airs ; IGBEEB and tFo caildren.
MIA AEOLONTA. eighteen years old. bound
from Vienna 10 South Chicago.
BERTHA BRANDWEINER twenty years old,
bGsnd from Vienna 10 South Chicago.
Mrs CURA RABIFANIKEKA and her four
children.
Mrs ANTON ZEJRAWSKI. burned 20 death in
the second car; body not recovered
AIRS. CATHERINE MUSK, f0rt5-eight years old,
Utca. \. =.
ANNA MUSK i've months cid. killed in het
mothers arms.
The Injured.
ROBERT NOVICH arm broken
ANTHONY BURKE. Garrett Ind. engineer Of
the freight train. scaldsd; head and lack severely
injured.
SAM NOSE. passenger conductor. Garrett, Ind. 4;
bead cut.
WILLIAM SNYDER basgagemau, head cut
KOSER. les broken.
NICHOLAS OPPOFITCH. head cut
RALEFF DETSCHER. internal injuries.
T. PETROFF. internal injuries.
b TUZIZAAiAN. internal injuries
- RAGEFF. badly burned.
- ROLSHEFF, badly burned.
=. HOISTOFF. back injured. badly burned.
- CUGROS. severe scalp wound.
KRAMER, rigat leg fractured scalp wound
JOHN RITTER spine injured.
- SWARPOONY, scalp nearly torn Of.
- LAZIC. back badly injured.
c. RITTER leg broken.
s. INGRED. collarboue broken, nose fractured
and four teeth knocked out
The Missing.
Mrs. ROBERT NOyICH and her three children
1irs. J. RITTER and tao children.
1t is believed that a number of other
persons have been consumed in the burn
ing cars, but as all those riding in the
forward coaches were immigrants and
those who are able to talk cannot under
stand the English language, il is probable
that it viii be days before the entire list
of missing can be found out
Tragic Scene in Chicago.
Scenes Of tragic riot and panic followed
the arrival in Chicago Of 30 survivors Of
the wreck to-day.
A crowd, estimated at 900 persons. met
the train at me Grand Central denot
Many in the crowd were relatives or
friends of the immigrants who had made
the journey from the East on the i'll
fated train.
In the six coaches were thirty-eight in
jured men and women. OF these. thirty
six probably VIII recover. Two. the doc
tors said, can not survive. All were
taken 10 Mercy Hospital
The train was met by long line Of
stetchers IN waiting on the depot plat
form. The injured were lifted ont
through the car windows to prevent be-
ing shaken up by passage in stretcbers
through the narrow aisles Of the cars
y low moan went up from the crowd
as this work went forward and one nv
F. one Of the wounded, so closely swathed
in bandages as scarcely to be recogniza-
bic as human beings, were lifted from the
car windows to stretchers and taken TO
waiting police ambulances.
Police Use Clubs.
The police were forced TO use their
clubs to open a line through which to
carry the injured to ambulances.
Persons in the crowd called for their
dead, who were left behind near the scene
OF the wreck.
The Chicagoans crowded about the sta
ton gate excitedly, but the railroad en-
ployes roughly pushed them back When
their relatives emerged from the train
they cIung 20 them and wept
Government officials who had the immi-
grants IN charge had difficulty i'm making
a way through the excited family groups
one old man, III his eagerness TO see if
his wife and children We're safe CA the
train, tried to push through the gateway.
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