The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-14
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:. . j! WRECK !!!:!!!!!
Trai = sscopes Into
Fr Train Early
Morning.
THE RIs Is BURNED
One Coach Completely Demolished
and Others Piled One on
Top Of An
other.

United Press Leased Wire Service. ]
CHICAGO, June 14.-One was
known dead, several more reported
killed and many believed injured
when a Pere Marquette passenger
train telescoped into a Pere Mar
quette freight train near South Chi
'cago early today.
The passenger train was returning
to Chicago from Grand Rapids with
a throng of yacationists from Mich
gan resorts.
Firemen digging n the debris re
covered one mangled body shortly
before nine O'Clock. They continued
probing for other victims.
Police officers of Wolf Lake, Ill.
who viewed the wreck early today
declared the first coach of the pas
senger train was completely demol
ished. Other coaches were piled one
on top of another, or broken and
twisted, lay overturned near the
wreck The passenger train carried
five coaches.
The wreckage took fire from sparks
from the two engines. Rescuers
feared many injured would be burned
to death before they could be extri
Gated.
The accident occurred when the
passenger train was switched from
the west bound main track to the
east bound main track, railroad ofn
cials believed. The crew of the pas
senger train did the switching, Off
cials said. They began an invesuga
ton Immediately.
The body of r. Bartuna, SIS years
old, conductor of the passenger train
was the first recovered. He was
found badly mangled in the frs,
coach.
Only One Killed.
CHICAGO, June 14.-One man, r.
Dutch Batenan, Holland, Mich.
was killed near here early today and
seven passengers injured when a
Pere Marquette passenger train ran
head-on into standing freight train
Batenan was conductor Of the oassen'
ger train bringing a load of week.
enders back from Michigan resorts.
Seven passengers were injured in
the wreck. The passenger was NOV
ing with enough force to lock the
first coach was telescoped. The es-
CapG OIL lTdN eleIS was IeSdI utl 90
miraculous, since the wreck&ge
caught fire, leading firemen to re-
port to their headquarters that many
bodies lay in the debris. Many pas
sengers were slightly hurt when they
were thrown about the rear coaches.
Louis Bekkering, engineer, and Carl
Bradley, fireman of the raSSen ger
train, were taken to the South Chi
cago police station for questioning g.
Both were cut and bruised. Police
said reports there were that both
had jumped when they saw the col
lsion was inevitable.
Both men live in Grand Rapids,
Mich
Report Fifteen Killed.
CHICAGO, June "A west bound
Pere Marquette passenger train from
Grand Rapids and other Michigan
summer resorts, returning with va
cationists to Chicago, collided head-on
with a Pere Marquette freight train
in South Chicago early today, accord
ing to reports here.
Fire department officials were ad
vised fifteen passengers were killed
This was unconfirmed.
Many passengers are known TO toe
buried under the debris. The two
trains have caught fire, according to
word here Fire fighting forces of
three Chicago departments have been
sent to the scene.
Doctors and nurses were sent early
today.
Two Men Killed.
ALBANY, June 1.-two men were
killed and their bodies burned follow
ing rear end collision on the Deia
ware and Hudson railroad at Ganso
WORT, near Saratoga, today. A third
was seriously injured
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