The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-12-24
81 HURT IN WRECK
BROKEN RAIL THROWS 6URliNc-
TON LIMITED OFF
TRACK.
TEARS UP 200 FEET OF TRACK
!. c. Passenger Runs Into Freight.
Several Are Hurt-Rock Island
Golden State" Is Dersiled-T~o
Killed, Many Injured.

Chicago. Dec. 20.-Two women suf-
fered serious injuries. p other passen-
gers were bruised and lacerated, and
occupants OF i've coaches were thrown
into a panic when the Oriental Lin
tied train on the Burlington road was
overturned at Western Springs. III.
The Burlington in its Official state
ment regarding the wreck claimed
only 10 passengers had been injured
Broken Rail Causes Wreck.
The v wreck was caused by a rail-
which broke as the fourth car OF the
train was passing. The three rear
cars. all sleepers. were derailed and
overturned in a ditch after dragging
along the roadbed on their sides for
yards. The FIRST three cars and the
locomotive left the track. but ulu not
overturn. and plowed along. tearing
up TIE track for 200 feet.
The train consisted OF an engine.
a baggage car. two chair cars. and
three sleepers. II was over seven hours
late and was running at great speed
when the wreck occurred.
The three Pullman sleepers. most u
them filed with passengers coming
east TO spend Christmas with friends.
slid down an embankment for - feet.
and that none was killed is declared
by railroad men TO be one Of the mir
acles in the history OF railroad acci-
dents.
Pinned Beneath Wreeksee.
The passengers were buried in the
wreckage of the partly demolished
coaches. many of them being pinned
down. where they we're obliged TO wait
until released by fellow passengers
and citizens OF Western Springs. who
were summoned by the whistles Of the
engine.
Contrary to the usual record OF rail
road accidents. the passengers in the
chair cars were not injured. beyond a
shaking up. The broken rail 10 which
the accident was due. was curled into
a shapeless mass when the cars came
to a stop.
I. c. Trains Collide.
Several persons were injured. some
seriously. in a wreck OF a Chicago
bound Illinois Central passenger train
and a freight on the Freeport division
OF the road. The passenger train ran
into an open switch. just west OF Haw-
thorne station, where the freight train
was waiting for it to pass
Among the injured are:
- Callahan. Dubuque. Ia
- Dodds. Dubuque. la
Frank Enright. Dubuque. la
Charles Reiger. engineer
Miss Katherine Smith. Dubuque. la.
The engine of the passenger train
was smashed TO pieces. the baggage
car and several coaches were thrown
from the track and greatly damaged.
The last car in the passenger train. a
Pullman. was the only one that kept
the track. Several OF the freight cars
were thrown from the track and de.
molished.
Golden State" Wrecked.
Tucson. Ariz.. Dec. 2O.-Engineer
Tom Walker and Fireman p W Bauer
both Of Tucson. were killed. ten per
sons were seriously injured and 10
others cut and bruised when the east
bound Golden State Limited. a Rock
Island train running over the South
ern Pacific tracks west OF FL Paso. was
wrecked three miles west OF Benson
The most seriously injured were
brought to St Mary's hospital at Tue
son.
The train was running 30 miles an
hour. Southern Pacific officials say
the train struck a curve at too high
speed.
The injured were nearly all in the
tourist sleepers and in the mail car.