The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-10-01
SIX KILLED IN
CHICAGO WRECK
Fast Passenger Crashes Into
Rear Of Cattle Train
DEBRIS IS SOON IN FLAMES

Victims Were Mostly Stockmen from
the Northwest-Bodies OF the Dead
Recovered Before the Resorers
Were Driven Back by the Fire-Sev-
eral of the Injured Are in Critical
Condition and May Not Live-Names
OF the Known Dead.
Chicago, Sept. 28.-With six dead
and others dying, the police and coron-
er's office co-operated in an inveStiga-
ton to fix responsibility for the COLI
sion of a Panhandle passenger flyer
running from Chicago to Cincinnati
and a Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
stock train The accident occurred at
Rockwell street. between West Twelfth
and West Thirteenth streets.
The men killed were all stockmen
from Montana and the Dakotas. They
were riding in the caboOse of the cat
tie train, which consisted of fOrty-fiye
cars.
1t is believed that of the number of
injured several will die.
Engine brushes Caboose.
When the giant engine of the fast
passenger train crashed into the frail
caboose it almost obliterated it. The
human beings who occupied the hunks
were crushed together In a mass. The
shrieks of the injured and dying min
IS Io mi oil in
the stock cars ahead, which were tele-
scoped one within another.
Persons living in the neighborhOod
were awakened by the terrific crash
and soon hundreds of rescuers were
on the scene, assisting in the work Of
chopping the victims from beneath the
wreckage. Telephone calls brought
scores of physicians from their beds
and police ambulances were sent from
all parts of the city.
Stock Train Had Right of Way.
No signals had been given to the
passenger train so far as could be
learned, that any other train was on
the tracks, on which it was rapidly
increasing it's speed.
According to Head Brakeman Bow.
man of the cattle train the right Of
way had been given to his train and
it was travelling at the rate of twelve
miles an hour when the passenger
crashed into it.
The locomotive struck the caboose,
filed with stoclxmen asleep, plowed
through this and into the cattle cars
in front. The caboose was cut in two
and set ON fire and four of the cars
in front of it were telescoped, all catch
ing fire at once.
The bodies of the six men were re-
covered before the flames drove beck
the reScuerS.
Dead and Seriously Injured.
The dead H. H. Porter, stockman,
Diamond, N. D.; Don Schlanger, stock
man, Fayette, S. D.; Frank Toch, adj
dress unknown; - Tostle, address
unknown; d. H. Hamilton, Minnesota
stockman; Jacob Notz, stockman Of
Cullen, N. d.
Those most seriously injured are:
w. w. Mcdonald, Elgin, ILL.,, brake
man, back believed to be broken may
die; F. G. Buckley, FallOn, Mont, con-
tusions on the head and severely cut
about the body, condition critical; E.
H. Egge, stockman, Fallon, Mont,
bruised and cut, condition serious; D.
NJ. Hamilton, stockman, Livingston,
Mont, back injured, scalp wounds;
Henry Bond, Milwaukee, conductor on
the cattle train, leg broken and in
ternal injuries, believed to be fatally
injured; Peter Johnson. stockman,
Ederlen, n. d., right arm broken,
scalp wound and. skull fractured, be-
lieved to be fatally injured; Hartman
Wirth, stockman, Henkinson, N. d.,
right foot crushed, leg bruised, severe