Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-10-12
80 SLAIN IN CRASH
FRIeHTFuL LOSS OF LIFE ON IL
LIMOS TRACTION LINE NEAR
sTAuNToN.
COACHES COLLIDE ON CURVE
Twenty-slx Are lnjured-orders Are
overlooked-Dead, Dying and
Manned Are Thrown Into
Bloody Mass.

Springfield. Ill.-Thirty-eight per.
sons were instantly killed and 26
others were injured when two interur.
ban cars on the Illinois mckinley
Traction system collided head-on at
Dickerson curve. two miles north of
Staunton, ILL.,, Tuesday.
Both cars were going at high rate
of speed and as the curve where they
met is at the bottom Of hill. both
cars were plunging down hill. They
met right on the curve and so sudden
was the collision, the motormen bare.
ly escaped with their lives by jump
ing.
Both cars were demolished aed the
dead, dying and injured were piled in
one bloody mass, while the screams of
the MANNED and bleeding added hor.
ror to the scene.
Car No. IA. north-bound, had orders
to meet both sections of train No. 70
at Stanton. The orders were carried
out SO far as the first section was
concerned. but it is officially reported
that the orders to wait for the second
section of No. 70 were overlooked.
Old employees of the company re-
fused to go out on learning of the
wreck They complained that new
men, employed for the state fair traf-
fic, were disobeying orders and run
ming by switches where they were un-
der orders to stop. 1t is reported that
four full crews mutinied and refused
to go out. The system has been taxed
to its extreme capacity since last Sat
urday by the immense crowds hasten
Ing to the state fair. Many additional
men, mostly motormen and conductors
employed in various cities of central
Illinois. have been pressed into service
on the high speed crowded interurban
cars.
The killed:
w. S. Street, Staunton, division SUI
perintendent Illinois Traction system.
A. Price. Champaign, auditor of dis
bursements of the Illinois Traction
system.
j. w. Miller. Gillespie, general SUI
perintendent Of the Superior Coal
company.
j. H. Habbegger, jamestown, ILL.,,
general merchant.
G. Werner, Chaplin, III.
Herman Bauer, st. Louis.
d. E. Black, Springfield. assistant
superintendent of motive power of the
Illinois Traction system
T. ]. Kerwin, st. Louis.
Manuel A. Inbermill, Baden, Ill.
DR.. H. c. Janaway, Decatur, Ill.
]. G. Schaefer, st. Louis.
Mrs. William Cloud. Benld. Ill.
S. G. Hill. Princeton. Ind
John Blotna, Benld, III.
Mrs. John Blotna, Bend, Ill.
DR.. B. F. Redshaw, Curran, Ill.
H. B. Robinson, Bend, ILL.,, miner.
!, E. M. Rose. Chicago.
Frank Ruble, O'Fallon, Ill.
s. T. Henry, Princeville, Ill.
Beatrice Seniger, 2S.
The injured.
NJ. Judd. or Judge. Litchf1eld, ILL.,;
.. j. Young, motorman, Staunton, Ill.,;
William Curle. Springfield, ILL.,: Edith
Lansford. Hillsboro. Ill. Hazel Sin
weger. Springfield; Mrs. j. r. Apec
and daughter Edith. Springfield: Ju-
Illus Engleman, O'Fallon. ILL.,; George
o. Miller. Troy, ILL.,; Mary Duffner,
Nilwood, ILL.,; Daniel o. Tarrant,
Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. L. E. Cordum,
Gillespie; Mrs. G. B. Clifton, Staun.
ton. ILL.,; c. F. Miller, Sparta, ILL.,; C..
w. McGehee, Shawneetown, H.; Geo.
Smith. Shawneetown, ILL.,; John Hohe,
Trenton, ILL.,; George Oehler, Staun.
ton, ILL.,: James Parker. Staunton, ILL.,:
Henry Saul. Belleville, ILL.,; c. F. Mebl,
Stanton, H.; Mccall, Gillespie, ILL.,;
James Scotland. Gillespie. Ill.,; Ed
ward White. Decatur, ILL.,; Burt Ed
wards. Mount Olive, Ill, may die; an
unknown man had card with name
Irwin F. Echenle. Belleville, ILL.,, in
pocket.
The special train from Stanton
bearing % of the dead was sent to
Carlinville. So badly mangled are
some of the bodies that they cannot
be recognized even by those who are
sure they have relatives among the
unidentified. Most of those killed were
riding in the south-bound car. which
was almost completely telescoped by
the north-bound car.
The scenes attending the wreck are
indescribable in their horrors as the
injured screamed for help while
pinned beneath the wreckage. The
few who escaped without injuries
heroically went to work in the
mangled mass of bleeding bodies, and
endeavored to extricate the dead from
the dying and injured.
A large number Of the injured were
taken to Granite City and attended
in hospitals there.
Steamer Sunk and Fifty Lost.