The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-07-18
LOCAL PEOPLE IN
RAILROAD WRECK
Mr.. and Mrs. CIV. Tudor and Daugh.
ter Lois Of Lacey Killed.
o. P. MCCLURE WAS ON TRAIN
But Escaped Serious injury-Thir.
teen Were Killed Outright and
Many Others Badly Hurt In
Crash Near Chicago.

The wreck on the Burlington road
at Western Springs, suburb of Chi
cago, early Sunday morning in which
thirteen people were killed outright
brought grief and anxiety to local
people. G. W. Tudor, the well known
grain elevator man, of Lacey, his
wife and daughter were among the
killed. D. P Mcclure, head of the
Mcclure Automobile Company, and
one OF his statesmen, J. G. Craige,
were on the train and were slightly
injured. For some time after news
of the wreck had become known here
and at OttumWa it was impossible to
hear from Mr.. Mcclure, and grave
fears of his safety We're entertained.
1t later developed that Mr.. Mcclure
was aiding the relief corps in remov-
ing the dead and injured from the
wreck, and forgot self in the excite
| ment of the scene. AS soon as the
injured had all been cared for Mr..
Mcclure wired Mrs. Mcclure that he
was all right, other than that he was
badly shaken up by the crash, and
that he had sustained some severe
bruises. He went on to Chicago and
expects TO continue his business trip
TO Detroit
John ". Flack, of Cincinnati, who
with his wife and daughter We're on
the Inflated train, thus refers to Mr.
McClure's calmness and efficiency, in
the Chicago Inter-Ocean:
"A heavy beam that had broken
through from somewhere was lying
across my shoulders and pinioning
me to the side OF the car, which was
now it's floor wrenched and
thrashed about and got loose from
the beam.
The window overhead was still in
tact and | took a chair and broke 1t
and climbed out. Somebody called
TO me to come away, but | thought
of my wife who was still in the car
somewhere. dead or alive did not
know, and climbed back onto the
side of the Pullman again. My back
hurt and the blood running down from
the cuts on my head got in my eyes
and bothered me, but aside from that
| felt pretty we'll and strong.
"A fully dressed man, whose name
| am sorry | do not know, because in
the excitement he was the coolest
and most efficient man l saw, was al
ready on the side of the coach, kick
ing in the windows and leaning in
through the openings made and call
ing out TO see whether there was any
one still in the berth. | joined him
and together out of one berth we
pulled two women apparently moth
er and her daughter, and from two
lother windows we drew out two 9TH
Ell women,
While we were at one end of the
car we saw a chair pushed through
a window at the other end and going
down there l found my wife and two
other women crawling out OF a Win
dow opposite the entrance of Ia
dies washroom, where they had been
imprisoned when the crash came"
The Tudor Family.
Mr.. Tudor drove down with his
family from Lacey Saturday after
noon and left his car at the Mcclure
garage. He told the boys at the
garage of his proposed trip, and an
ticipated unpleasant time in Chicago.
A lake trip was also down on his pro
gram But the fates ruled otherwise
and the lives of the entire family
were snuffed out in the twinkling OF
an eye. Mr.. Tudor was in the prime
of life, being only a little past forty.
His wife was a few years his junior
and his daughter Lois was about sew
en- years old. They Were very popu-
lar in and around Lacey and their
unfortunate deaths will bring grief to
all who knew them.
Mrs. Tudor is daughter Of Amos
Evans, of 1922 High avenue east. She
is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Rob
ert McCrea, living at Mason City;
Mrs. Shaw of Taintor, Ia, Mrs. HON.
er Barnhart OF Marshalltown, and
Mrs. Jas. Jackson, of Osceola., and
one brother, Clifford Evans. of o.
kaloosa. Mr.. Tudor is half-brother
of Warren Upton of Oskaloosa. The
family have the sympathy Of all in
their bereavement.
Press Report Of Wreck.
Chicago, July 15.-Thirteen per-
sons we're killed and fifteen to twenty
injured in a wreck on the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railroad at
Western Springs, suburb OF Chi
cage, at $3.50 a. m, Sunday.
Coming through fog. with suppos.
eddy clear track ahead, train No. 8,
fast mail, ran at full speed into the
rear of train No. 2, known as the
Overland Express, from Denver
which was standing still on the track
ltelescoping two OF the Overiand's
Pullman cars.
Railroad officials refused to fix the
blame until after the wreck has been
Investigated thoroughly Mrs. F. A
Wilcox, who was in charge OF the
tower from which the block signals
were controlled, said she was certain
the block was thrown against both