Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-06
WRECKED ON A CURVE NO MORE MIMIC WAR
One Killed and Ihrty-FWe Army and Guard Manelvers
Hurt in Illinois. Cost Too Many Lives
FOUR COACHES SMASHED LESSONS LEARNED DEARLY
Cena special Crashes Into Reg Recent Campaign
ular lraln Fills Hospital Cots.
IhA1NMEN IN FATAL WKECK RANK AND FILE SUFFER MOST
mu.+ r.orn
~echage on lnercoona Road
Chcago Accidents Train Men,
FOUR COACHES SMASHED
Central Special Crashes Into Reg
ular Train.
TRAINMEN IN FATAL WRECK
Three Killed and One Buried Under
Wreckage on Intercolonial Road.
Chicago Accidents.

SPRINGFIELD, H.. October 6.-One
five persons were injured. four probably
fatally. in collision at $40 o'clock last
night between a special taking home sew
eral hundred excursionists who had been
attending the state fair in this city and
a regular passenger train on the Illinois
Central at Parnel, three miles south of
Farmer City.
1t was reported last night that at least
a dozen were dead and one hundred in
jured, but it is now ascertained that but
one person was killed outright. This was
Miss Clara Watson of Farmer City.
The wreck occurred on a sharp curve
while the two trains were running at a
high rate of speed. Four Of the coaches
of the special were smashed.
1t was II o'clock before the first word
of the accident reached Farmer City.
when Conductor Duncan of the special.
himself seriously injured, limped into
town.
Conductor Duncan gives his version Of
the cause of the wreck. His own watch
was being repaired. and he was using an
other, he says. The dial in this watch
was not in the same position as on his
own, and when he looked at Il he thought
he had fourteen minutes in which to run
into Farmer City, whereas he had but
one minute.
Three Trainmen Killed.
DALHOUsIE JUNCTION, N. H., Oc-
tober 6.-Three trainmen were killed, an
other buried under wreckage and
probably fatally injured. and two brake
men were seriously injured early today
when the Maritime express from Halifax
for Montreal collided head-on with a
Snonial al
about twenty-five miles southeast of here
on the 1ntercolonial railway.
No passengers are known to have beer
injured. The trains came together Will
a great crash, and the two engines anC
| several cars of the freight train were
wrecked.
Fourteen Hurt on Frisco Line.
| BLYTHESvILLE. Ark. October g.
Fourteen persons were injured, five Sc
riously. when a southbound passenger
| train on the Frisco railroad collided
with a freight train near BlytheSville
late last night
The freight train was in a siding await
ing the passing of the passenger train
when the accident occurred. the latter
train going through an open switch, it is
declared, and into the spur. crashing in
the forward end of the freight train.
Score Hurt in Chicago Crash.
CHICAGO, October Ga dense fog
early today was responsible for a number
of accidents. The more serious were a
rear-end collision between two suburban
trains and a smash-up involving a street
car and a wagon.
In the collision of the suburban trains a
score Of passengers were injured. four of
them seriously. In the fog the engineer
of a Rock Island train failed to see a
Lake Shore train ahead.
Five persons were hurt in the street
car accident, one severely. Accidents of
minor nature were reported in various
parts Of the city before the fog lifted.