New-York tribune., 1912-07-15
Woman Operator, Who Insists
She Had Set Block Signals
Against Second Train,
Collapses After the 'aFA
Accident. Ny
GHoULs ROB THE VICTIMS
Locomotive of Second Train Ploughs
Through Two Rear Pullmans of
the Overland - Fog May
Have Prevented the En- y
gineer Seeing Dan
ger Warning.

ger Warning.
Tho saying that big railroad wrecks
como in threes was borne out yesterday,
when tho third disaster since July 4, In
each Of which many lives were lost, 90.
Cured. :,
Tho Overland Express Of the Chicago,
Burlington G. Quincy was run into by .
fast express just outside Chicago. Thirs
teen persons were killed and between
twenty and thirty injured.
On July an express train on the
Lackawanna road crashed into a passen.
ger train near Corning, N. Y. Forty per]
sons were killed and about fifty injured.
On July S, on the Lisoner Valley Rail-
road at Wipen, Penn, twenty one per.
sons were killed and thirty injured whom
an overloaded passenger car, pushed by
an enoine, was struck by double header
freight train.
Earlier in the year, on January q, oe-
CURED the wreck on the Illinois Central
in which the roads former president, J.
T. Harahan, Second Vice President F. o.
MeIcher, of tho Chicago, Rock Island q
Pacific Railroad, and two other railway
men were killed.
| In three Of these four wrecks stand
ina passenger train was run INTO from
the rear by a train that ran past block
signal.
Chicago. July l4--Thirteen persons
vera kille~. and fifteen or twenty others
uere injured in a wreck on the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy Railroad at west
ern Springs. a suburb OF Chicago, AZ
6:3O o'clock this morning.
Coming eastward through fog, with
supposedly a clear track ahead, Tram
No s a fast mail, ran at full speed into
the rear of train No. 2, known as the
Overland Express, from Denver, "hich
WAS standing still On the track tele-
sccping two of the Overlands Pullman
cars.
| Railroad officials refused to flx the
blame until after the wreck had peen
investigated. Mrs. F. A. WILCOX VINO
was in charge Of the signal tower from
which the block signals were controileo'
sa;d she was certain the block was
thrown against both trains. She COL
,onsed after the accident and still is 10
a highly nervous condition.
LIST Of Dead and Injured.
The dead:
BARCLAY. Francis A. twenty 'years odsi 0H-
RRoWSsoN, George rtty-hve years o'a'
! Galesburg. Ill, engineer Train NO. 8.
BUNCH. A. E. thirty years old. Chicaso' neg"
! Pullman porter.
u.RT Mrs G. NJ. wife of a physician ~
! Canton, Ohio. -.
KELLY. Miss Lillian. twenty-five y.aTs Old
| Boise, Idaho.
| PoHLMANN, Mrs f. G, San Francisco
STERN. NJ e, forty years old, Chicago y
TUDOR, C. W, forty years old, Lacey lowI .
| Two unidentified women.
| Two unidentified girls
| One unidentified boy.
Two OF the unidentified dead are spgp33sea
! be the wife and child OF @. w Luoo'
| Lacey, Iowa, who perished In the ~rsSA'
Among those injured were
GRAIN, H. O. GaIesburg H. fl, ire%an 1Dtarss d H
Dr-DrEy Warren p No IA Oak street, Bes<
| Dl NdAiNh . - 49,
mont Mass.
! Dudley; compound fracture Of right les
/ FLACH, John W. Cincinnati; right leg acoS
| ated scalp wound.
FIACK. Mrs. Cincinnati; severe scalp woundA
| FRANCIS. Mrs. f. W, Bedford ina se'e''S
| bruised about the body go .
| HUGHES Frank D., Hinsdale, Ill., eonduc'"
KREHL, Mrs. ]. c.. Girard. Ohio; spine hurt'
! several ribs broken. .-u,..
| OAKES, Miss Ethel Boston, collarpohe p'""-
and injured internally.
| PoHLMANN. f. G.. San Francisco right arm
| and leg broken.
| sCHoLz. the Rev. f. H. st. Francis hospi hosppi.
tai Columbus. Ohio back injured anu ''S'
wounds.
A telegram received by John Specmah'
station agent for the Chicago, Burhhs-
ton & Quincy Railroad at Lagrange fro"
Warren Upton. OF Oscaloosa, Iowa.
stated that G. w. Tudor. Of Lacey, Iowa.
one Of the victims, was accompanied oy
his wife and -year-old son.
description of Mrs Tudor and ner
son teegraphed to Specman corresponds
with that of one of the unidentineo
women and the four-year-old boy, ana :,
is believed that Mrs. Tudor and chi'u
perished in the wreck with her huspah''
All of the dead except Bronson we's
taken from the rear coach OF the pen
yer train. The engine Of No. ploushe.
through this car. cutting it in half an"
crushing out the lives Of helpless passe"-
gers many OF whom still were In. 'he"
berths On into the second coacn '"e
engine sped. Halfway through tna' .a
II veered to the left, derai!ins 'no
sleeper. The engine was eh'""'
stripped when it stopped.
Fire, starting from the gas lights III 'H'
sleepers, broke out and many vic'n''
pinioned down by heavy timpers an0
iron. pleaded for death. Tho nre de-
partments OF Western Springs ana -
grange were on the scene In a fsw nun
utes and they put out the flames w'tn
lines of hose. -.
Ghouls are believed to have Top3
the dead befors they reached ~ nasssss