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A ralen Passenger r Train Erain Crushes In Into o Oil 01 01 Cars Car Car Carand and this the Explosion that Kills JUs Sixteen l Persons rons A Alton ton Junction Illinois wa was a the scene of an m awful on the te Alton Junction or Is i located two miles mies east ent of Alton a and add d is and feeding station tation for the te Cleveland Cincinnati Che Chicago go St. St Louis and Ind the Chicago Burlington Bur BIr- lington QuIncy railroads The latter later road roal joins the Big Four point running Into St. St Louis Louls over o the same track The fast known as n the ve Sout Southwestern ter Limited was WI coming from trout St St. Louis Lou a 0 o'clock Saturday morning thirty ml Si es cs late and making up lost time at a forty forty- en cn mie per when rhen it ran into a n switch and collided with a a long long- freight train consisting con slating mostly of loaded tank cars Engineer Webb Ross of ot saw SIV the danger too late but he lie threw on the air brakes and staid stai with his machine being bl burled buried in the wreck and burned t to a crisp FIr Fireman man White lumped and escaped uninjured The Tile p passengers were score fearfully shaken up but none none were svere wele ly hurt hut An witness eye eye says that the chock of the e collision was a s such eh a asto t split two t o loaded tanks wide open and the he oil 01 immediately eni caught ht tire fire fre the flames fames shooting fifty feet Into the air tr The locomotives and Ind baggage cars cays were totally totally to to- Lo tally taly wrecked but the remainder of the passenger passenger pas pas- train was WM removed the reach ot 31 the flames fame In an Incredibly short time the freight train was a n mass mas of flames Fear ear of an explosion prevented prEvented any attempt to save it The wrecking train came up from East Eat St. St Louis at 11 1 o'clock but could do little Traffic on the tW two roads road roada was vas a e entirely suspended and a special train was was WI made marle up upon upon upon on the Chicago Alton to t carry belated pas pat pass passengers s through h to toBt St St. t. Lou Louis Loui Hearing of the wreck hundreds of people from Alton Alon and th the vicinity were attracted by bj the tho scene And then occurred I Ione one one of the most awful l disasters ou on record A Afew Afew I few minutes minutes' after ter 12 o'clock there thera was a slight explosion of one ono tank tank which scattered the debris on all al sides sides- setting Betting fire to the yards stock-yards and This produced the that the danger of explosion was as passed passed and the te throng ng of f by slanders rushed in to fo save the tho yards stock from froth de de- de e. e X A m minute nute later there was a n deafening deaf ening report that earth carth for half hal a minute and ane spread one sheet of seething burning oil in all directions For those wih with with- In tb of yards yard there was wa no escape Their clothing was wa burned and literally fell fel from rom their bodies In a n moment those thos who were wore not disabled began running l hither and thither screaming t for r help Some went to the nearest water and others othen ran into the fields an Panic Pante Ie reigned f for r a D short time until the injured recovered red their presence of mInd to tc care for tor the afflicted Two barrels of t linseed oil 01 were ere taken from a grocery store and ap ap- ap piled d e wounds by several s t ne or H c. c M in rm ac eve r vv nu r 1 y and its v As soon son as a was wa made up an and the m me- me m a train possible n was sufferers taken to St St. Josephs Joseph's the he t jorty q in Alton hospital Up to lip m. m the list of dead was M thought bought to number only en ten but t the e next neat day It H W was t found that sixteen sixten had died and that fourteen die probably others where the wounded In the rooms The scene removed from the rough temporary were beds were heartrending Ly Lying Ly- Ly Into the litters the couches the dirty soaked oil rags rage tog ing ng on and laid Iid bare bodies ay from the cutaway te were the burning oil The the Ule horrible e work of burIng 01 torn were scorched and faces of all hands bands al and noses were s swollen swollen sol ol ollen and bleeding The lips either cither distorted and aud the yes eyes were len and were flame eaten or or encrusted burned out or were wee fame fame-aten The hands bands of many and with bloo blood dust were burned to a a crust lingers fingers were seere ere L m missing ig broken Several ox of th me ne victims and arms without uncovered were found to bo be l- l when cuticle the flames having e cooked and burned the clothing in removal removal re reo clung to it either it until fell feU away of its own accord moval Several or of the tho Injured ts begged to be killed be free tree from their p pain nOh n. n might tom that they die I 1 to said Bald one I w want nt blind Oh Im I'm I 1 want to die mother another bowed low oven ovel And then a loving lo moaning form and buried stained the Several Sev Sty the cut cot form on face on the con convulsed torD cot the victims eral little boys were among scenes at the time of the explosion were something The terrible The blazing flying oil 01 distinctly visible at Alton four fou miles mIes Was wa away Several persons state that that they saw it I reached a it must have and to be visible there and t height of over 20 feet feel teet M. M V tn ai V t I was standing iou leei wess oc v. v v Lin v L James n Ii MaupIn to the reporter when Bald said the The roar made by the explosion came the caDe unusual luS It contained an burning oil told me rue buning amount of 01 gas ga and I had started to t go to t my coy myn hitched some distance away which was horse horae n There S the explosion came Just as I started Jut a dull dun roar For an Instant my eyes were ere was w-M II blinded a n t DY y the flash fah Then I saw a a huge wall scull wallS al alof 1 S directly toward me I of fire coming fre It was WU so 50 hl high h as to be away ber n now w that tat i wa and must toe have been COO r 00 above the tree tops c bove but tut butI one feet hl high b. b The sight was as reet for comfort and I ran as fast I 1 too near was M to I from the approaching wall wal was yn I could as coull set seton seton s overcoat was f for as It was as my just t in time a I WI of i o JH V fire b r b-r some drops on which fre reach reached d i pulled it is s o off 01 Aw each stile side of me mo there thereS ril ir l' l S L 1 so f t 1 1 on r hardy sile distinguish me 0 n nu r oy DY i l human beings as M flame for or the sheets of fame overcoat over the Plan man nearest near nearest near near- hastily hatly threw my rolled him over In the to me and then oil off est t the fire I cut extinguishing fro dust After clothing dust tr part of his his boots and the upper After boot station the tho to und told him to t go CO t victims who rushed assisted two more j wards yards I and howling In agony past pat me sue shrieking others me use while hie I was passed forty Thirty bIrty or 01 wretches assisting these poor |