The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-05
ORDERS DISREGARDED
Trains Meet at High Speed, with Ter.
rible Loss of Life-Accident Oc-
Cured Near Stanton,
Illinois.

/ tloh system Two miles north OF Staull-
ton late yesterday Three of the in
jured and possibly more viii die.
Reports from the wreck up to the
present time have been difficult to OBJ
tain, and although some make the num-
Der OF injured as high as SO 1t is not
believed it will run over 25.
Three of the dead are prominent off
Gals of the traction sytsem, They are,
j, Z. Berry, Springfield, Ill, land com.
missioner for the Illinois Traction sys-
TEN.
w. n. Street, Stanton, assistant en-
gineer.
d. w Black, Springfield, assistant SUI
perintendent Of motive power and equip
ment.
The collision occurred between local
train northbound and an excursion tram
headed toward st. Louis and loaded with
passengers on their way to view the pa
rade of the yelled prophet at ST. Louis.
The accident, according to present in
formation, was due entirely to the disre
gard of orders by the crew of the local,
Nj. A. Leonard, CONDUCTOR aud John
Herman OF Staunton, motorman.
4 HC cVhCupQNitu lAdiH was iuiiHIuE III
two sections, and the local had orders
to pass both sections at stanton When
the first section had passed, the crew of
the local pulled out ON the main track,
needless, of the second section, and start
ed north.
At q sharp turn, called Dickerson's
curve, two miles north of Staunton, the
two trains came together in a splinter
ing crash.
Dickersons curve is at the bottom OF
a decline, both from the north and from
the south Both trains were on the
down grade and moving at a speed of
40 miles an hour when they met. The
collision occurred right at the bottom Of
the double incline and at the sharpest
part of the curve.
The cars were so close that ii was
impossible for either OF them to stop or
slow down. The crews could do nothing
except set the brakes and Jump for their
lives. All four men escaped without
serious injury
None of the passengers had a chance,
as the crash followed Immediately the
cries of warning issued by the conduct
ors and motormen as they jumped
The cars came together with terrific
crash, Both were demolished and piled
in one huge mass Of wreckage, through
which the bodies OF the dead and wound
ed were scattered
Word of the accident was telephoned
to Springfield and Peoria, and special
car was Immediately rnshed from these
points. Other cars also were sent north
from Granite City. These also 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 in one of the cars sent
from Springfield.
In a short time car containing 2s
bodies was sent to Carlinville, where
they were placed in an undertaking es-
adjustment. Late last night only three
had been identified.
General manager Chubbuck of the trac-
tion company was in Peoria when the /
news of the wreck was received Ac
by minor officials, he started
at once for the scene. Shortly after
leaving Peoria, he received word from
superintendent Hanscy at Springfield 4
that the dead would number 81 and the .
injured 10.
At Springfield all available physicians
were placed on Chubbuck's train and I
hurried to Stanton
Within few minutes after the col (
lision occurred, farmers from the sur
country and nearly every man I
in staunton was on his way to the
scene Of the accident, to render whatever
was possible
The early Corners were greeted with a /
terrible spectacle. The two cars had 1
come together with such force that they (
were not only telescoped, but actually 1
battered out Of all semblance to their
original shape They were simply a
mass Of splintered wood and twisted 1
iron and steel, eight feet high.
In this pile of wreekage, the dead and
were flung in every conceivable
position and every imaginable form of
Some bodies of the dead We're actually 4
torn apart and streams of blood flowed .
down the debris in dozen places.
The farmers and the citizens OF Staun-
ton worked with desperate haste, how
ever, and in q short time had taken
from the wreckage all Of the living and
most Of the dead.
The dead identified at Carlinville are
J. r. Habbegger. Jameston, H.; c. Wer-
ner, Chaplin, H.; Herman Bauer. car
penter, ST. Louis, Mo; T. J. Kirwin, St.
Louis; Manuel A. Indermill Baden. H.:
Dr.. II. c. Galloway, Decatur, H.; j. G.
sehafer, ST. Louis; Mrs. William Nc
Cloud, Bend, ILL.,; S. O. Hill, Princeton,
Ind; John Blockta, Benld; Mrs, John
Blockta, Benld: IT, b. Robinson, Benld;
Mrs. II. b. Robinson, Benld E, I. Rose,
Chicago; A. Prince, auditor Of disburse-
nents of the Illinois Traction company,
Champaign; nine unidentified women;
lue unidentified man
j H. Berry of Springfield died on the
way 10 the Granite City hospital.
There were 2l wounded in the Granite
1ity hospital. Most Of those are not Sc
ferely hurt, and all but three or four
ire expected TO recover.
When the special car from Staunton.
bearing ~ dead. reached Carliuville
shortly after the wreck. volunteers ear
lied the torn and mangled bodies to the
morgue.
Hundreds of people crowded about
while officers fought TO keep them back.
70 permit she work of Identification.
But relatives Of those missing we're ire
iistible in their efforts to see the dead.
So badly mangled were some OF the
lodies that they could not be recognized
wen by those who were sure they had
-elatiyes among the dead, and identihca-
ion was largely made by clothing and