Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-15
Three Of Is Killed on
Burlington Still Uni
Identified.
EFFORT TO FIX BLAME
State Railway Commission Be-
gins InveStigation-CoaCh
Is Cut in Two.

Chicago, July 15.-Of the 13 per
sons killed in a collision between the
Burlington Overland Limited and a
mail train Sunday. three today re-
main unidentified. OF the 16 injured
all will recover. The coroner. and
state railway commission will make
an inquiry in efforts to FIX blame for
the wreck. which occurred l6 miles
west OF Chicago.
PLUNGEs THROUGH SLEEPER.
The Overland was standing on the
track at 6:45 a m. $50 feet east the sta
tion in obedience 10 the same sema-
phore that the engineer OF the mail
train failed 70 see in time. The engine
of No. 2, as the train Is known, plowed
through the Pullman sleeper at the end
OF the limited and crushed part OF the
next sleeper before it left the track
and stopped
Two inquiries into the cause OF the
wreck will be begun today. Coroner
Peter Hoffman, who was notified by
telephone at his residence in Des-
PLANES, went at once to La Grange in
company with Deputy Coroner Adolph
ately impaueled a jury. but continued
the inquest until today. He said he
would endeavor TO find out who was
responsible for the wreck.
The second inquiry will be CONDUCTED
by the state railway commission. which
announced It would send representa-
tives TO Western Springs today to be-
gin an investigation.
The mail train engineer died at his
post The two sleeping cars, the first
sliced as II with a knife and the other
twisted and smashed. dropped into the
ditch
FIRE IMPERILs THE INJURED.
Fire started at once in the wreckage
OF the Pullmans. Passengers whose
clothes had been torn from their bod
les and who incurred injuries Of every
description were thrown into a heap
at the forward end OF the first sleeper
where they hit and struggled blindly in
the smoke.
Residents OF Western Springs who
heard the torpedoes and the crash i'm
mediately following got out Of their
beds and hurried 10 the wreck. In a
few minutes the fire was eItinguished
and hundred men grasped the loose
side of the first sleeper and lifted il
clear The sight disclosed sickened
some Of the TesCuers.
When the top was removed from the
rear car OF the limited young woman
stepped out from the dying entirely
uninjured except for slight cut neaI
her mouth. Afterward she directed
the crew to the exact spot where she
had been sitting A pair Of slippers. q
poCketbook. a looking glass. and 9
suit case were recovered at her re
quest She was perfectly composed.
BRIDE DIES HEROINE.
\ young woman. Mrs. f. G. Pohl
mann. was lifted clear, but as doctor
bent over her she drew her skirt ovel
her legs
There's my husband" she nodded
toward him. I'm not badly hurt
Look after him first
The doctor obeyed. but when b,
came back 10 Mrs. Pohlmann a minut
later he found both her legs were bro
ken and her spine was fractured. Sh,
died on the way TO ST Anthony's hos
pital
Mrs Anna Rowell. a trained nurs
and the wife Of Dr. Lawrence w Row
ell, administered strychnine 10 on
man IN the hope that he would revive
He died in her arms
+. A Jaime. Jr., one OF the first res
idents Of Western Springs TO reac
the wreck. tried TO pull n woman VIII
seemed still TO be breathing from tn
wreckage only TO discover that q bear
four inches square had pierced he
body
Jaime was severely burned on hi
hands and arms IN assisting a ma
who was still alive. but whose clotl
Ing was on FIRE
FINDS WHOLE FAMILY DEAD.
+ e. Patterson. a resident OF Yves
ern Springs. who worked until he Wa
exhausted. finally helped take out N
bodies Of 4 father. a mother. and the
little girl When Patterson saw III
little girl still clasped a doll in ht
arms, although she was dead. he ha
10 turn away. But the work Of reno
ing the injured was then done.
Dr Rowell, whose house is but a CO..
pie OF hundred yards from the wrecI