The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-13
FORTY SEVEN KILLED
 IN WRECK ON B. & Q.
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viving passengers, the greater part of l those who were pinned down in the debris were burned to death. The flames spread through the wreckage so rapidly that 1t was impossibleto save number of people who were only slightly hurt, but were held fast by timbers that weighted them down. These were burned in plain sight of the throng that stood around the scene of the disaster, utterly unable to lend as- sistance in any way. The fire continu- ed until all of the shattered cars were entirely consumed, and of the forty seven people whose death followed the collision, forty-five were burned to ashes,
 The crash was so great that num- ber of farmers and other residents of the neighborhood heard 1t, and hasten l ed to the scene, but they could do noth- ing except lend assistance to the injur- ed who had already been taken from the wreck. All of the six cars of the immigrant train were burned, as were 1 three freight cars.
 Relief trains were at once sent out from South Chicago and Valparaiso, Ind, with every available physician, and every possible aid was given to the injured. A large number of the relatives of passengers on the ill-fated train were in Chicago awaiting their arrival, and when the report was re- ceived that many had been killed and l injured in a wreck the scenes around | the B. & O. depot were narrowing Men were there who had cometo this country to escape the massacres of Russia, and who, after months of hard work, had saved enough to pay the passage of members of their families, and their grief when they became aware that possibly all their sacrifice and efforts had resuletd only in the death of those whom they had sought to bring to them, was pitiful. Crowds of Russians and Poles waited around the station all day for news from l Woodville, and when, late in the aft l ernoon, a train came in bearing the thirty-eight injured persons, it was with the greatest difficulty that the police were able to open a passageway for the wounded Several of the foreign CTS became so excited that they att tempted to attack depot attaches, whose uniforms led them to believe they were employed by the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Among the wounded who were brought to the depot was Mrs. Anna Chyza, who had come from Warsaw to meet her husband, who has been working here for six months. Mrs Chyza is blind, and her husband recog- nized her as she was being carried through the crowd by two policemen Before the officers could stop him, he fell across the stretcher, carrying it to the ground and kissing his wife re- peatedly She recognized his voice, and, they chung to each other so des- perately that 1t required the efforts of two policemen to force them apart Chyza struggled so fercely that it was necessary to place him under arrest. He was released after being taken out of the depot
 Others whose relatives were among the injured begged to be allowed to take them to their homes, but the po- lice were memorable, and all of the in- jured were taken to hospitals. At the hospital tonight it was said that it would for some time be impossible to predict the result in the cases of sew eral of the injured.