Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18
ORIENTAL LIMITED
IN AWFUL WRECK
Three Sleeping Cars of Burning
ton Road Roll Down Steep
Embankment.
NOT A SINGLE PERSON KILLED
Was Making Up Lost Time When IL
Struck Broken Rail-Slcepers
Stripped OF Trunks.

Chicago, Dec. 1s.-Train No. So on
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail-
road, the Oriental limited WAS wrecked
early this morning at Western Springs.
Ill, near Chicago. three sleeping cars
rolling down an embankment No per-
son WAS killed. but many were injured.
None of the injured, however, il Is be-
lieved. are fatally hurt.
Two women passengers were the
worst injured. One of them suffered
a broken leg and the other broken
arm. other passengers who were hurt
received cuts from broken glass and
were bruised and shaken up.
The train which came from the Pa
cific coast by way of ST. Paul. Mimi,
was running rapidly. being seven or
eight hours late. 1t was due in Chi
cago at o'clock last night. At 4:S0
this morning, when near Western
Springs. ILL.,. broken rail sent the
three sleeping cars rolling down an
embankment 10 or Is feet. pitching
the cars on their Sides in the ditch
The fact that no one was killed seems
remarkable to all who were in the ac-
cident.
Although the weather was nearly
zero cold, the passengers suffered little
from the cold, as relief was promptly
sent, and the passengers were able to
dress before leaving the cars notwith-
standing that the coaches were In the
ditch.
RUNNING AT HIGH SPEED.
The train was moving at high speed
in an attempt TO make up time At the
scene of the wreck the embankment is
comparatively low. Had the broken
rail been so yards west the cars might
have been precIpitated % feet into a
deep ditch.
There were some so passengers in the
forward or day coach which was not
overturned and there were 30 occu
pants of the sleeping cars which were
overturned.
The broken rail, termed by railroad
ers "snake rail" instead of piercing
one of the cars and carrying death
with It, coiled up beneath the cars and
was in a confused tangle beneath the
second car when the cars swung across
the tracks and stopped.
The overturned sleepers were stripped
of their trucks as they rolled down the
iembankment and windows and the
glass OF the doors were shattered.
Physicians were summoned, a relief
train was made up aud quick run to
Chicago was begun.
Scarcely passenger on the train cs-
capped injury and as the relief train
neared the city the injured persons re-
covering from the shock OF the accident
became more aware OF their hurts. At
the Union station the relief train was
met by ambulances and the more Sc
vercly hurt were taken To hospitals,
Among the injured are:
THE I'M URED.
Mrs. O. a. Lowell, wife of o. A. Lo-
veil, mining engineer OF Wilmar. Is.
c.. severely injured
Mrs Bernard Eschlebachcr. Port
land, Oregon: knee injured.
T A. Ball and wife. Findlay, n. D.:
bruised and cut by glass.
X L. Lane, Seattle. Washington;
body bruised and cut.
s. r. Steine, Spokane, Washington;
head and face cut.
+. w. Clisby. Spokane. Washington;
collar-bone broken.
w. C. Beck, Red Lodge. Montana;
body bruised and wrist sprained.
Frank Bishop. Portland. oregon;
side injured. head and body bruised.
Mrs J. p. Paysour and son. Seattle.
Washington: both cut and bruised.
Mrs. Mary Reed. Ross. n. D.. and
daughter; head cut; body bruised.
Miss Viola Mitchell. Charlotte, n D..