The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-07-15
IS KILLED IN TRAIN
WRECK NEAR CHICAGO
Burlington Mail Plunges
Through Passenger Coaches
on Limited.
crDs,r>, Anr, rNrr, n Il n
SCORES ARE INJURED
Every Person in the Telescoped
Car Is Either Dead
or Hurt.

CHICAGO. July l4.--In one Of the worst
railroad wrecks in the vicinity Of Chi
cago in a decade. sixteen persons were
killed and two score or more. the exact
number has not been determined. were
hurt this morning at Western SPRING.,
when heavy mail train on the Chicago.
Burlington and Quincy Railroad crashed
into the Oriental Limited train Of the
same road.
Both Of the trains were eastbound at
the time OF the accident. The passenger
had come to a stop outside Western
Springs. which Is seventeen miles out
Of Chicago. to enable the train crew
to attend to hot box on one OF the
rear Pullman coaches.
In stopping the passenger train had
cleared a block at the next town west.
Hinsdale. and the fast mall train.
bowling along at sixty miles an hour
only nine minutes behind. crashed into
the rear coach Of the passenger and
literally plouRhed a path through IT,
Every man. woman and child in the
rear coach was either killed or hurt.
The dead,
BUNCH, "a A.. "a years old. colored
porter on Denver limited
BARCLAY. r. A.. Of Denver, 20 yeart
old. student at Notre Dame.
HART. Mrs. c. NJ. 70 years old, Can
ton. Ohio.
KELLY. Lillian. 20 years old, Boise
Idaho.
STERN, NJ. F.. 35 years old. 4724
POHLMANN. Mrs. f. C. s5 years old
San Francisco.
BRONSON. 81 years old. engineer Trair
No s.
TUDOR. q. W. 10 years old. Oska
looss. Iowa.
Girl. between q and II years. whit,
dress and black shoes and stockings.
Woman. 35 years old.
Woman. IS years old.
Woman 20 years old.
/ Girl, between 4 and years.
Girl. about is years.
Travelling salesman. IS years old.
Woman. name thoueht to be Mrs Caui
man died on train while on way to Chi
cago.
/ The injured.
CEAlN. n a., fireman OF No. s ief
/ hand and left foot crushed not serious
. DCDi.EY. WARREN. Belmont. Mass
spina! injuries Will probably die.
! DUDLEY. MRS. WARREN compounc
fracture OF right leg.
! FLACH. JAMES W. Cincinnati. Ohio
scalp wounds, right leg bruised and lac
i Grated
( FLACH. MRS. j. w. wife severe scall
= wounds
FRANCIS. MRS. f.. w. Bedford. Ind
bruises "n sh"uldci. internal injuries.
GRiSWOLD. MISS KATHERINE, 80
Farwe!l avenue. Milwaukee nose bruised
abrasion OF left knee, injury to spine.
HUGHES. FRANK n. Hinsdale. ILL.,
conductor on mail train. cuts and bi uis-
on head, face and body. internal injuries
JOY. II. F., 3S05 West rhirteenIl
street Chicago. hands cut and bruised
JOHNSON. MISS LYME. 2S33 Michi
gan avenue, Chicago, left shoulder dis
located. left knee cut.
KREHL. MRS. !. c.. Girard. Ohio
fracture Of left wrist, spine hurt, probabl
fracture of ribs on left side.
MARSH. .. H., 3+s West Seventy-sec
ond street. Chicago: back wrenched.
MNAIR. WILLIAM. II years old. Den
Yer. Colo. left cheek cut.
PARSONS. JOHN f., Dixon, III. thum
sprained. right knee lacerated. bruise
about body.
POHLMANN. f. c.. 81 years old, G
San Francisco right arm and right lie
ITdCtuItu. Will pTOOhDlE Ole.
SCHOl.I. FATHER GREGORY, s
, Franciss Hospital. Columbus. Ohio /, seal
wounds and bruises on back.
The only warning the passengers u
the limited train had Of the impendln
danger was a shrek by one OF then
Immediately followed by the crash.
The rear and second coaches wer
completely demolished and the engln
of the mail train r,w lies in the ditc
mass OF twisted steel and iron. Tn
rear coaches Immediately took fire an
the bruised and bleeding passengers VIII
were not killed outright were with dill
ficulty saved from being burned aliv,
The trains came together with sue
terrific force that the noise Of the In
. pact aroused residents OF both Wester
, Springs and Hinsdalc. and every avai
able surgeon and ambulance in the,
two places and several surroundin
Chicago suburbs were hurried to Il
scene.
, Residents OF the towns threw the
, homes open for the succor OF the II
, jured and meanwhile the dead wei
taken from the wreckaEe and sent
. undertaking rooms. Subsequently
many Of the injured as possible we
removed TO Chicago hospitals and Il
dead to mOrgues.
- Responsibility for the accident
placed al the door Of the engineer
- the passenger train by r. s. Eustl
passenger traffic manager Of the ra!
|, road.
:. 1T was a foRgy morning" he sal
:, land while the block signals were pro
. Crly handled by the operator, the a
!, cldent was due tn the fact that Il
n engineer OF train No. 9 ran by the 81
: nal SET for stop at Western Sprin
and stopped his train about $50 fe
n east thereof,
o Tho next block to the west beil
:, thus cleared. train No. s followed, n
W the engineer Of this train likewise r,
by the signal at Western Springs, Will
IA was s,iil set for stop, and struck I