The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-12-23
LIMITED TRAIN
GOES IN DITCH;
MANY ARE HURT
ORIENTAL OVERLAND ON c., B. & Q.
IS WRECKED AT WESTERN
SPRINGS, ILL.
SlEEPERS DOWN EMBAN kMENT
Lake Shore Passenger Collides with
Switch Engine in Cleveland
Without Fatalitie3.
vASSAR GIRLS GIVE ASSISTANCE.

CHICAGO, H., Dec. lS.-Train No.
- on the Chicago, Burlington x Quincy
railroad, the Oriental Limited, was
wrecked at 1870 tins morning at Western
Springs, ILL.,, near Chicago, three sleep
ing cars rolling down an embarrassment.
No person was killed but many were
injured. Few Of the injured. however,
are seriously hurr.
Two women passengers were the worst
injured. one OF them suffered broken
Leg. and the other a broken arm. Other
passengers who were hurt received cuts
from broken glass and were bruised ANA
shaken up.
Was Running Fast.
The train which came from the Pa
yiiic coast by way OF st. Paul, Mlnn.,
WAS running rapidly being seven or eight
hours late 1t was due in Chicago at .
o'clock Friday night. At 1870, when
near Western Springs, ILL.,, a broken rail
nut the thrcc Sleeping cars rolling down
an rmhaukmeut ten or fifteen leet.
pitching the car, on their sides in the
ditch. The fact lhat no person on boarQ
the train was killed seems remarkable
to all who Were n the accident Al
though the weather was nearly zero, the
passengers suffered little from the cold,
as relief was promptly at hand, and the
passengers were able to dress before
leaving the cars, Notwithstanding that
the coaches We're i'll the ditch
At the time of the wreck. the train
was moving at high speed in an attempt
to make up time. The railway officials
assert that the speed was fifty miles
an hour, but passengers and trainmen
On the wrecked ears declare that the
speed was nearer siXty-hve miles. At
the scene of the wreck the embankment
on which the tracks are laid is com
paratively low. Had the broken rail
been 80 yards west the cars would have
been precpitated a sheer % feet into
a deep ditch. There were fifty passen-
gers in the forward or day coach, which
was not overturned, and there were thir-
ty occupants of the sleeping cars, which
were overturned. Passengers declared
that the escape without one fatality
was wonderful in view of the speed and
weight of the train.
Rail Coils Under Cars.
The broken rail, termed by railroaders
a SNAKE rail-" Coiled up beneath the
cars instead of piercing one of the cars
and carrying death. The rail was in
tangle beneath the second coach when
the ears swung across the tracks anG
stopped.
The overturned sleeping cars were
stripped of their trucks as they rolled
down the embankment, shattering the
glass windows and doors. The fact that
the train was lighted by electricity pre-.
vented danger of fire from oyerturnin2
lamps.
Scarcely passenger on the train es,
capped injury. At the Union station the
relief train was met by ambulances and
the more seriously injured were hurried
to hospitals. Many Of the passengers
were Christmas homecomers, and were
met at the station by relatives who had
been alarmed at the delay of the limited
Ohio Trains Collide.
CLEVELAND, O.. Dec 1S.-Three
persons are dead apd two more may die
as the result of a collision between a
Lake Shore passenger train and switch
engine ut East Twenty street early
today. Ten passengers We're bruised but
continued their journey.
The passenger train was No. ! west.
bound from New York. and connects here
with the Big -Four railway for st. Louis
The dead and fatally injured were III!
members Of the crews of the trains.
The collision occurred ut | 30 a. m,
and within sight of the Union station
Snow was falling and it is believed that
the red light, which railroad men say
was displayed to warn the engineer OF
the passenger train, was obscured
While crossing from one track to an.
other the freight train was hit diagon,
nlly. The crew of the switch engine was
pinned beneath the wreckage. The pas
senger engine overturned, carrying its
crew underneath.
Vassar Girls in Wreck.
4 party of Nassar girls, on their way
home for the Christmas holidays, was
among the passengers, and they at once
plunged into the work of giving tempo,
FAIRY aid to the injured, and reassuring
the frightened They also spread good
cheer among passengers and railway
men. Not one of the girls was hurt.
All of the passengers were taken to
the union station Immediately and given
a steaming hot breakfast. BY ) O'Clock
all had resumed their journey.
Wreck on Santa Fee.
CHICAGO, H., Dec. 1S.--At the gen.
eral offices of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fee railway, it was announced that
no one was killed or seriously injured in
tie wreck near Fulton \. NJ. The of
fetal statement was that Kansas City
train No. 10. due in Kansas City at 4 sc
y. IN. today. running as train No. s, was
deraiIed this morning near Fulton, \. NJ
No injuries We're reported 10 crew or