Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1910-10-05
THIRTY-SEVfN
DIE IN WRECK
TWO ILLINOIS TRACTION CARS
COIIIDED ON SHARP CURVE.
ORDERS WERE DISOBEYED


stanton H. oct A,-Thhty-
seven persons were killed and from
sixteen to twenty-five injured in o
collision on the Illinois Traction sys
tenn two miles north Of here late this
afternoon Three Of the injured. and
possibly more are not expected 10 SUR
Nivc.
The dead at Carinvlle are;
W. $. Street, division suporintond-
ent of the Illinois Traction co..
Staunton
A. Price, auditor of disbursements
of the Illinois Traction CO., cham.
paign.
J. W. Miller Of Ginsplc, general
superintendent of the superior Coal
co.
j. X, Habbedger, Jamestou, ~.
@. Worncr Champaign, III,
Raymond Bauer, 81 Louis, Mo
y, T.. Black assistant supcrintend. .
ent of motive power of the Illinois
Traction CO., of Springfield.
a. j. Kerwin 81 Louis, Mo.
Manuel A. lndermill, Baden H.
Or II G. GanawaN Decatur III
j g Shaefcr So. Louls
Mrs. william cloud, Beneld, H.
j., s. I'm, Princeton, Ind,
John Blotpa, Reneld III
II Il. Robinson. cneld lll
r.. NJ Rose, collector for q
weekly magazine, his father IS II. T.
Rose, 1913 Wilson Ave. Chicago
John Berry Springfield
Nine unidentified women aud one
unidentified man.
Frank Rublc, OF Alton, Ills.
$ T. Henry, Princevillo Ills
Those not seriously injured;
James Scott and son. Sawervillc
IN, n. Judge, Litchfield, M; T.. j.
Young, stanton. H., William Curle.
Springfield, m; Edith Landswlth,
llillsboro, M; Hazel Singer, Spring.
field, M Mrs, j Il. Agee. Spring.
field, H.; Ethel Agee, Springfield.
m. julius Englman, Ofallon, H.;
George Mile, Troy H.: Mary Dosner,
NIlwood. H.; r. A. Tarrant, Brook
lyn, n. Y; g, W. McGeho, shawnee
town. H., head badly cut; Guy
Smith. Shawneeton, H.; John Hose.
Trenton. lll head and face crushed,
Joseph Clark Beneld. III d.; wooden
leg broken; Mrs. l.. T. Cordum, Gil
lespie. Ill.. chest crushed; G -.
Clifton. Staunton. ILL.,: c. T.. Mehl.
l.. Y Raine, dispatcher l. y. s. Car
linville, head injured; G.. +. Miller.
Sparta, head and chest
The collision occurred between 10
cal train No "A, northbound. and cX-
cursiOn train No. 73, headed toward
ST. Louis, loaded with passengers
on their way to view the parade OF
the Yelled Prophets The accident.
according to present Information was
due entirely to the disregard OF or
ders by the crew of No. II, in charge
of NJ. A. Leonard. conductor and
John Herman, of stanton. motor
man
Train No, II had orders TO pass
train No. 70 at Stanton The latter
train was running In two sections ana
the orders given TO No. IA were OK
plicit that It should pass both sec
tions OF the southbound train at
stanton, The first section of No.
73 passed, when the crew of No. IA
pulled out ON the main tracR heed
less of the second section, and START
ed north.
At a sharp turn in the road, called
DickersOn's Curve, two miles north
Of here. the two trains came together
in a splntering crash. Dickerson
Curve is sharp bend In the road
and Is at the bottom of decline
both from the north and the south
Train No. IA and the second section
of No. 10 were both on the down
grade and were moving at "A speed Of
forty miles an hour when they met.
The collision occurred right at the
bottom Of a double incline and at the
Sharbest part of the curve, The cars
were so close that il was impossible
for either of them to stop or slow
down, and the crews were able to do
nothing eXceW set the brakes ana
Jump for their lives. The crew of
No. II and the crew of 73, which was
composed of W. V. Duncan, cOnduc-
tor, and Il ] Young, of Springfield.
m, leaped for their lives as soon as
they saw that the collision was newt
able and all four men escaped with
ont serious injury They were badly
shaken up, but We're able to lend as
sstance to the injured an instant la
ter. None of the passengers had a
chance for life.
As quickly rs possible word of the
accident was telephoned 10 Spring
field, and a special car left immedi-
ately from that point and from Gran
tie CITY, III. The last ear took many
OF the injured and hurried them back
to Granite City where they were
placed In hospitals As fast as the
dead were extricated they were placed
upon one OF the ears sent from
Springfield, and in short time one
car containing Uwenty-eight bodies |
was sent to Carlinville where theyl
were placed In an establishment. At
$3.50 O'Clock not one of these twenty
eight bodies had been identified.
The two cars came together with
such awful force that they were not
only telescoped but were actually bat
tered out of all semblance to their
original shape. II was simply a mass
of splintered wood, twisted iron and
steel eight feet high and in the pile
of wreckage the dead and wounded
were flung In every conceivable po-
sition and every Imaginable form of
mutllation. Some of the bodies OF the ,
dead were actually torn apart and
streams of blood flowed down the /,
ditch In a dozen different places.
Farmers and citizens of Staunton
worked with desperate haste, and In
a short time had taken from the
wreckage all OF the living and most
of the dead. BY means Of the rural
telephone news Of the accident quick
w spread throughout the country and
when 1t became known that twenty |