The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-06
Seven Lives Are BIOtted Out like SnuffIng of a
 Candle
MANGLEO REMAINS IRE
 SCAT TERED ALONG TRACK
Party of Over 100 Is Waiting for a Train To Chicago, When a Fast Flyer Dashes Into Crowd
 Without Warning.

Chicago. October Special )-- Without the sound of bell or warning shriek of whistle. great mogu1 en- zine, drawing train of sleepers in
 it's wake, swept like a murderous comet
 out of the darkness at Gary, Ind. to-
 night, and plowed q bloody path through struggling crowd of men and women on the tracks.
 Seven men and women were ground
 to pieces under the wheels of the fly
 ing train, which continued on it's way at speed of fifty miles an hour. leav-
 ing only blaekness. pitiful cries and
 shuddering. covering men and women
 behind.
 The real number of the dead Is not
 known. The bits of bodies picked up along the tracks for a hundred yards
 by the aid of the light of lanterns are
 believed to represent seven persons
 killed, but others may have been car
 ried on further by the train and cast
 aside in ditches where they will be
 found later.
 It was one of the flyers of the Iaks Shore railroad bound east from Chi cago, which ran through the crowd on
 the tracks at Gary aud did not halt
 to lend aid to the wounded ors to count
 the dead Whether the engineer saw the helpless men and woIfien in the path of his engine before 1t struck
 nival of death it had caused, or
 nival of death it has caused or | whether he, too, hsd the Ives of those l to stop is not known. 1t is positive.
 however, that the train never slack ened speed after it had killed at least 1 two women and five men, and had l dangerously injured at least that many l more.
 Train an Hour Late.
 On the temporary platform at Gary, | without even u station light to guide l them, between one hundred and one 1 hundred and fifty persons had gathered 1 to wait for local train bound to l Chicago This train was almost an hour late. and as the crowd was so great most of the passengers passed over the westbound tracks in order to enter the train from the side opposite | to the station.
 1 The attention of every one was upon
 the approach of the local train and | the crowd divided and stood back out | of danger when it drew up to the sta 1 tion. This train had just stopped and 1 the passengers had not yet left the 1 eastbound tracks to board it when tho | flyer from Chicago loomed out of the
 darkness. sweeping around slight
 curve and dashed into the crowd on | the tracks.
 1 There was no time for thought. Most of the people on the tracks jumped in- 1 stinctively for safety to the low plat
 forms between the tracks, but others
 were caught squarely by the pilot of the
 engine and were either drawn benea tn | A.. a.-t.. AzIns fta 1 nizable fragments on both sides of tho 1 track. The wind from the rush of the
 train tossed the persons crowded between 1 the tracks about like thistledown, knock . 1 ing some of them down and beneath the
 cars of the other train. or prostrate on
 the track still further over.
 All Struck Are Killed. ! No one who had been struck by the 1 engine had escaped death and the multi
 laton of the bodies was so frightful that l it is hardly probable that they can be 1 identified. Not even scrap of paper
 nor a part of the effects of any of those
 killed had been recovered up to midnight which would give clue to the name of q single person killed.
 1 The crowd on the tracks when the
 train dashed upon them was made dp 1 largely of persons from Chicago who had 1 gone out to look at the new town, sonie 1 of them with the idea of purchasing lots
 anG of residents of Gary. who were con- i ing into Chicago, for the evening or the
 weekend. They were all well dressed
 and the two women who were killed were
 dressed as though for the theatre. Wheth-
 CT or not the men who accompanied them
 were killed Is also unestablished I That most of those in the crowd wait 1 ing for the local train were strangers
 and had no idea of the movements of | trains on the Lake Shore tracks. was shown by the way they crossed the l tracks to wait for the westbound train.
 No one warned them of their danger and
 the only instructions of the trainmen
 when the local train came in was for | them to hurry.