The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-15
SEVENTEEN KILLED
ANDFORTy INJURED
IN WRECK ON ROAD
Mail Train and Overland
Limited on Burlington
Come Together
ENGINEER BUSHES
TRAIN BY SIGNAL
Moman Operator Makes Aain
Effort to Prevent tie
Crash-Accident
Near Chicago

CHICAGO, July 14.-~Fiftecn per-
sons met almost instant death, two
died while being rushed To hospitals
and forty persons we're Injured whe4
the Omaha mail train on 2ne Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy railroad, going
at speed close to sixty miles an
hour, crashed into the rear end OF the
Overland limited paSss nger train NO.
=. at Western Springs. HIS. today. The
dead:
A. f. bunch. colored ~orter Oh
Denver limited.
z. A. barclay. Denver. student at
Notrs Dame.
Mrs e. NJ. Hart. Canton. o.
LILLIAN Kelley Boise. Idaho,
NJ f, Stern, Chicago,
George Bronson. engineer Of train
No s.
c. w Luder. Oskatoosa. Iowa.
Airs G. w Luder and four-year~
cid daughter Of Mr.. Lader.
Mrs, II. O. Hopland. san Francisco.
Unidentified girl aged about eigh-
Unidentified woman, aged about
thirty-tive.
Unidentified woman, aged about
rort",
Unidentified woman. aged forty
Unidentified girl about sixteen,
unidentified travelling salesman,
about Twenty-Five.
Woman. thought ~ be Mrs Caul-
man address uakroWn, died on trafin
while on way 20 Chicago.
lis, al Injured.
Partial lis 81 injured.
James W t'laca Cincinnati, Mrs.
j W Flaeh. Mrs. j. G. krehl, Girard,
O.. Miss katherine Grlswold Mllwau-
Eee. MISS Lyme johnson. Chicago.
William Muxnair, Denver. y. G. phol-
mann. san Francisco. probably will
die; Warren +. Dudley, Belmont.
Nisx. probably will die: II, Q. Grain.
1reruan ef No. shi Mrs. Warren +.
dudley. Father Gregory schioze, ri
Fran IL hospital Columbus. O.: Mrs
r.. W. Francis. Bedford. Ind, FRANK
H. Hughes. Hindale. Ind. conductor.
The wreck. one Of the worst in the
ts.sasat4-- at the burlington occurred
At $50 this morning.
Pending an official investigation. T.
g Eustis. passenger traffic manager,
placed the blame on the engineer or
the passenger train. which ran past
The sigma! AT Western Springs. clear
ing the west block at Hindale.
The passenger train No. from
Denver, due I'm Chicago at A. NJ
Sttrt,trt-ti nj w fessteffa Springs hfsasaaize
Of "a hot box" on one of the rear
Pullman coaches
Fails 10 Sec signal.
At Western springs. which is about
eighteen miles west OF Chicago, train
NJ. ? and the mali train Ne, \, run
about nine minutes apart. Because OF
the heavy fog II * believed hy some
that engineer Of No. failed 10 see
the signal at tt1aSdale. a mile aud "A
half west OF the point where the cot
lsion occurred.
without warning to pAssc ngers.
gave the popping ~ three torp"do~s
placed several hundred feet in The
rear Of the passenger train hy me
f.agt4an, the heavy mall tram crash
ed into the rear of the passenger tn"
rear Pullman ear of rhe passenger
train, the Hamlet, WAS parted and the
roof torn
Flowing though the first car the
eagine partially .de demolished the secopa
gag. Manx were killed and injured ~
they lay asleep fin theIr belrhs WIFI"
others, preparing 10 aIight the moment
the train reached the union passenger
station. were II the Mushrooms,
Won,ans Efforts Fails.
Heroic efforts to avoid the fatality
we're made BY the station operators AZ
Hinsd,le and Western springs. Nhea
the mail tram hHNhFH W i''t'FN
without stopping the operator AT tnat
losnt made frantic Efforts "a feach
the Western Springs operator
Mail train coming a. full speed,
was the warming received BY Mis-. T.
A wilcox at Western springs. Ars'
wilcox rushed from her key wheh
the first three words OF the message
were received to warn conductor
Frank Hughes, OF the passenger train
Conductor Hughes signalled All
speed ahead but the wheels of the
train hardly started when the mat
crashed into the rear coach.
The passenger train Tad ei@ht
coaches Six of these were Pullman
ears The mail train. which also car
ried express. had eight heavy coaches.
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