Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-09-23
Death AND INJURY
IN A chicago FOG
TWO MEN ARE KILLED eY TRAINS
AND SCORES HURT IN A
NUMBER OF WRECKS.

AND SCORES HURT IN A
NUMBER OF WRECKS.
DENSE PAIL HIDES
PASSENGERS PERIL
Railroad and Elevated Trains Collide
Crashes in Pennsylvania Cost
Several Lives-lnterurba Meets
Trouble-None Perish.
Chicago, Sept. 18.-Death of at least
two persons, injuries to scores of 9th.
ers, and widespread trouble in one
way or another were caused by the
heavy fog which enveloped Chicago
during the early hours Of Thursday.
Five wrecks were reported, and aside
from the suffering endured by unfor-
tunate passengers and trainmen, thou
sands of persons were Inconvenience
seriously in getting the days work
under way.
Eric Arndsen, 25 years old, who re.
Gently arrived in this country from
Christiania, Norway, hurrying to work
walked directly in front of an Illinois
Central railroad passenger train at
Seventy-ninth street and was instant.
~ killed. The victim evidently did not
see the approaching train in the dense
mist and did not hear the train bell
Persons walking just back of the man
who paused to let the train go by
saw him struck and hurled in front of
the moving train and ground under its
wheels, but were helpless to give him
any help.
Killed by Train.
Another fatality due to the fog was
the killing of John Peterson, As years
old, SO Townsend street, section
hand, by train No. Sc on the Chicago
& Northwestern road north of Gross
Park shortly after a. m. Thursday
The victim was employed by the road
More than dozen persons were in.
jured, three severely, many others mar.
| rowly escaped being hurt and the SER
! vice was tied up for nearly an hour
in an accident on the Aurora, Elgin &
Chicago railroad at the Maple avenue
| station in Oak Park in the fog Thurs.
| day. The accident occurred at 7:15
O'Clock, when a train of the Aurora,
Elgin & Chicago road crashed into the
rear of a Metropolitan West Side Ele.
| waited train which had been stopped at
the station.
Hurt in Metropolitan Crash.
One person was badly injured, sew.
| esal bruised and shaken up and many
panic-stricken when one train crashed
! INFO another on the Garfield Park
branch of the Metropolitan West Side
SIDE Elevated road
Thomas Shupney, SO years old. Pol
isl a machinist, living at 1919 Forty.
sc vond avenue, was the man hurt. One
rih was broken and he was internally
injured. He was taken to St. Anthony
de Padua hospital.
Two men were injured and the en-.
CINE and three freight cars of Chi.
cago & Northwestern train were prac-
tically demolished in wreck. The &C.
cident resulted from running the train
into an open switch two blocks south
of Clybourn junction. The dense fog
prevented the engineer from distin.
gushing block signal ahead.
st. Paul Limited in Crash.
In another wreck on the North.
western railroad just north of May
fair at 7:4O a. m. the st. Paul limited
| one of the best-known through trains
| of the road, figured. The limited was
standing on the tracks, waiting for a
signal for clear track, when a sub
urban train bound to the city from
Darlington crashed into it from the
! rear.
The crash shook up the passengers
on the limited, but it's heavy coaches
were not seriously injured. The sub
| urban train engine was smashed tC
pieces and it's tender and the combina
ton baggage car and smoker which
followed it were telescoped. Several
of the passengers in the smoker were
| slightly bruised.
Crash Fatal to Three.
Bel1evernon, Pa, Sept 1S-One man
| was killed and seven others injured
two of them fatally, in a collision
Thursday between a yard engine and
a work train on the Pittsburg & Lake
Erie railroad at Gibsonton. Pa. near
here. The dead and injured are all
foreigners, and were on the work
| train.
Crushed to Death.
Erie, Pa, Sept. 18.-In a rear-end
| collision of freight trains on the Bes
semer railroad at Meadville Junction
near Albion, Pa, Thursday Brakeman
Lynn Curtis was crushed to death and
! Engineer Henry Brennan and Fireman
Perry Shelits perhaps fatally in
| jured.
Fireman Fatally Hurt.
Mount Pleasant, Mich, Sept. 49,
Two freight trains on the Ann Arbo1
railway collided Thursday three miles
| north of here and Fireman Leslie
Scharter of Traverse City was fatally
injured. Four other trainmen were
severely hurt
Princess to Ask Divorce.
Paris, Sept. 18.-Princess de Broglie,