The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-10-12
TOTAL WRECK
Cars "a Tie llliaois 1.aetisa S1s,ea
Crash With Dire aesuh
THIRTY SEVEN KILLED

O'SfS&6TN oi OIuSgs NSoS SothS~
son.-Cars Are Completely DemoI-
iShed, and the Passengers, Unable
TO Escape. Flung in Every Po.s-
tion and Mutilatcd Terribly.
Thirty-even persons we're killed
and from sixteen to twenty-five IN
jured in collision on the illinois
Traction system. t~o miles north Of
stanton. Illinois. late Tuesday eve
ming Three Of the injured will die
and maybe more.
The collision occurred between To-
cal :rain No. ~. 1orth-bound. and
an excursion train. No. IS. headed
toward ST Louis and loaded With
passengers OF their way 70 view the
parade o. the ve.ied Prophets at St.
Louis. The acc:dcEs. j: IS said. was
due entirely 10 the disregard OF or
was in charge o. " a. Leonard.
conductor. and John Lie,maa. OK
S,aun,on. no;ormau.
Train No IA had orders 20 pass
train IS at Staonton. The latter
train was running in two sections
and the orders given to No. Ii were
explicit, that i. should pass both sec
tious OF the south bound train at
S,aun.on The 6rst section Of 7SS
pulled ou. on the main track and
started north.
A. a sharp turn in the road at tina
bottom Of decline. the two TRAIN
came together IN spiinter!ns crash.
Train No. IA and the second section
OF '3 we're both on the down grade
and mor'ng at speed OF about
forty miles an hour when :hey met.
The creT OF No. ~ and the crew
Of No. 13. which was composed OF
W. " Duncan. conductor. and E. ].
YcunS. motorman. both Of Spring
feId. Illinois. leaped for their lives
as soon as they saw the collision
vas inevitable. and all four escaped
without serious injury. They were
badly shaken mp. but were able 10
lend assistance TO the injured an
Instant later.
! None Of the passengers had any
chance to escape. as the crash be-
tween the cars followed Immediately
the cries Of warning issued 5y ths
conductors and motornen as they
Jumped from the trains. The carr
came together With terrific crash.
and both were demolished and piled
IN one huge mass Of ~reckase.
through which the bodies OF the dead
!. and rounded we're scattered. It is
certain that by "a! the larger por.
.ion OF the passengers on both care
we're e!the, killed outright or desper-
ately Injured. The two trains were
; 20 closely twisted together .nat il
. vas a marvel that anybody escaped
death 0. injury.
As quickly as possible word OF
the accident vas teIephoned Spring
, field and Peoria. and special cas
was Immediately rushed from these
: points. Other cars we're also sent
uorth from Granite City. III! These
Las, took many 0. the injured and
i. hurried them back 70 Granite City.
~here they were placed IN hospitals.
4 AS fast as the dead we're extr!ca.ed
they were placed in one Of the cara
sent from Springfield In q short
time a car was containing twenty
eight bodies. and Il vas sent to Car
,insriile. where they were placed in
an undertaking esta bl!shnent. Late
TUESDAY night only three bodies had
been Identified.
General manager Chubbuck. Of the
Traction Company. was in Peoria
when the ae@s of the wreck vas re-
ceiycd. Accompanied By minor of5-
cials. he started at once for the
wreck. At Springfield all the avail
able physicians we're placed on Mr.
Chubbuck's special car and hurried
TO Stanton.
) Within a .c~ minutes after the
collision occurred farmers from the
surrounding country and uesrly o.
crv man in S;aunton vas en- route
70 the scene Of the accident 10 rom
der whatever assistance was posi-
nle. Tho early comers we're greet
ID with a spectacle such as uas ner-
CT before seen In that part Of the
countrv
The two cars had come together
With such awful force ;hat they were
no. only telescoped. bu. they we're
actually battered out OF al! sem
oIance o; their original shape. They
we're simply mass OF splinter~d
rood and twisted iron and steel eight
feet high. In this pile OF vrecsaSe
the dead and wounded were flung
n every conceivable position and cv-
cry Imaginable form Of nutilation.
Some Of the bodies o. the dead
were torn apart. and streams o!
J blood hoHed down the debris IN =
dozen places The farmers and the
citizens OF Stanton worked With deS-
perate haste. however. and in a short
time had taken from the xreckase
all Of the livins and mos: OF the
dead.
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