Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-07-17
IS DEAD, 20 Hurt
IN RAIL WRECK
Burlington Fast Mail Crashes
Into Limited Near Chicago.
MANY VICTIMS WERE ASLEEP
Passengers Are Killed in Their Berths
When Train From Denver,
Stepped by Hot Box,
is Struck.

Chicago, July 15.-Fourteen persons
met almost instant death, two died
while being rushed to hospitals and 40
others were injured when the Omaha
mail train on the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy railroad, going at a speed Of
nearly so miles an hour, crashed into
the rear end Of the Denver limited
passengev train No 2 at Western
Springs, H., Is miles west Of Chicago.
The dead:
E. A. Bunch, twenty-eight years old,
colored porter.
P. A. Barclat, twenty-four years old,
of Denver, student at Notre Dame,
Ind
Mrs. c. NJ. Hart, thirty-two years
old, Canton, o.
Lillian Kelly, twenty-five years old.
Boise, Idaho.
M. E. Stern, thirty-five years old,
Chicago.
George Bronson, ffty-four years old,
engineer mail train.
G. W. Tudor, forty years old, Oska-
loosa, Ia.
Mrs. E. G. Pohlmann, thirty-fve
years old, San Francisco
Four women, three girls and one
man, as yet Unidentified.
The most seriously injured are: =.
G. Pohlmann, San Francisco; Warren
P. Dudley, Belmont, Mass; H. O.
Grain, fireman mail train; Mrs. War
rem p Dudley, Belmont, Mass;
Father Gregory Scholz, Columbus, o.;
James w. Flach, Cincinnati; Mrs j.
w. Flach, Mrs. J. G. Krehl, Girard, o.;
H. F. Joy, Cincinnati; Miss Katherine
Griswold, Milwaukee; Miss Lyme
Johnson, Chicago; William McNair,
Denver; Mrs. E. w. Francis, Bedford
Ind; o. r. Marsh, Chicago; John F.
Parsons, Dixon, H., and Frank D.
Hughes, Hinsdale, H., conductor OF
mail train
Pending an official investigation, P
S. Eustis, passenger traffic manager
of the railroad, in g statement, placed
the blame Of the accident on the en-
gineer of the passenger train, which
ran past the signal set for stop at
Western Springs, clearing the west
block at Hinsdale.
Hot Box Stops Passenger.
The passenger train, No. 2, from
Denver, due in Chicago at a. m.
stopped at Western Springs because
of ''hot box on one of the rear Pull
man coaches.
At Western Springs Train No. and
the mail train, No. s, run about nine
minutes apart Because of the heavy
fog it is believed by some that the
engineer of train No. failed to see
the signal at Hinsdale, a mile and a
half west of the point where the col
lision occurred.
Crash Comes Without Warning.
Without warning to passengers
save the popping of three torpedoes
placed several hundred feet in the
rear of the passenger train by the
fiagman, the heavy mail train crashed
into the rear of the passenger
The crash aroused the people OF
LAGRANGE, Western Springs and Hins
dale and hundreds were on the scene
half an hour after the accident &C.
Cured. The rear Pullman car of the
passenger train, the Hamlet" was
parted and the roof torn.
Flowing through the car, in which
all of the killed except the engineer
were found, the engine partially de.
molished the second, the "Fernwood.'
Many were killed and injured as
they lay asleep in their berths, while
others, preparing to alight the mo-
ment the train reached Chicago, were
in the Mushrooms. In the list of dead
and injured are many women and sew
eral small children