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Show 'THIRTV-SIX KILLED AND THIRTY-ONE ' INJURED J TROLLEY ROAD ACCIDENT i Motorman's Absent Mindedness Causes Two Electric Trains to, Crash Together on a Curve Near Staunton, Illinois, With Appalling Loss of Life r vestigation into the causes of the accident ac-cident will be commenced. It is said this morning that the reading of a few words scrawled on a lend or tiss -e flimsy, rhtve- lmlios wide and five inches long, will fix the responsibility for the wreck. Thrt bit of paper ha.s been Jealously guarded guard-ed in the coroner's office bore. A duplicate of the order was taken from Conductor Leonard n one of the cars The collision occurred between be-tween local train No. II. northbound, and limited second section of No. 71. southbound. According to Hie order, train No. II was running wild after leaving Wall, 111., whli b is c-efshtln of a mile north of Stuantoti. Met on a Curve. llicket sou curve is on the l,.-n.l of a ravine and Jum at the cut wii-ro the track winds sharply to the right. Both trains were going a speed estimated at nearly l'oity miles an hour. So short was the v.arniug that there was no opportunity to r.duce speed before the local telescoped the limited. The Impact drove both curs down the track nearly a hundred feet and left them in a ma.K of greckage, beneath which the dead and injured passengers were pinioned. In the north bound car not one escaped uninjured and few jn the other car. Both tootornien jumped as the. crash impended, Llermann from the local, and E. .1. Young of Springfield of the limited. Conductor Y. V. Duncan Dun-can of Springfield, on duty in the limited, lim-ited, wns seriously injured, w hile conductor con-ductor Leonard escaped with minor bruises. Relief Trains Ordered. When the news reached Staunton of the wreck, special relief trains were ordered to the scene. The dead were taken to Carlinville and the injured in-jured to Granite City. - Street and Horry died on route to the. hospital. A gruesome sight met the relief workers when I hoy arlved at the cure. Many of the bodies were so mangled as to bo unrecognizable. The few who escaped without Injury heroically hero-ically went to the rescue of the lesi fortunate, who screamed for hel while pinned beneath the wreckage Croneral Manager II. E. Cbubliurlc of Peoria arrived nt the scene of the disaster within three hours alter It occurred and Immediately took chargo of the relief work. Me and his assist-ants assist-ants were grcHfly aided by the farmers farm-ers of the vicinity, who brought mattresses mat-tresses and blankets In their wagons and assisted in caring for the living ami In removing the dead. Until eighteen months xqo the I1I(. nois Traction had the unusual distinction distinc-tion of never having caused the death of a single passenger It opcnef jts through service into St. ly.uls Monday morning. Staunton, Ills , Oct. 3. Thirty-six persons, including twelve women, met death nlmost Instantly, when two cars on the Illinois Traction system collided col-lided at Dickerson curve, two and one-half one-half miles north of bore, at 3. 07 o'cl' ck yesterday. Thirty-one other passengers passen-gers were Injured, several of theiu seriously. THE DEAD. .MR. and MRS. JOHN G BLOTN A, Benald, III. .JOHN E. BERRY, Springfield. III. land commissioner Jlinols Traction company. D E BLACK, Springfield. 111., master mas-ter mechanic, Illinois Traction system. sys-tem. MR. and MRS. HERMAN BAUER. St. Louis. MRS. WILLIAM CIH'D, Benald. DR. II C GANA WAY, Decatur, 111. ,S C. HILL, Princeton, Ind ! EDWARD C. HILL. Belleville, 111. I S. T. HENRY. Prlnvevllle, III. J. R. HABBEGGER, Jamestown, 111. MANUEL A. INTER MILL, Badeu-Baden, Badeu-Baden, 111. T. J. KERWIN, SL I.ouls. MRS. C. H. KANE, Granite City, 111. ADOLPH KUENZE. Belleville, 111. I. W. MILLER Gillespie, III. MISS ELIZABETH McPHERSON, Gillespie. Ill A. H. PRICE, Champaign. III., auditor audit-or Traction system FRANK RUBLE. O'Fallon. III. DR. B. F. RADSH W, Curran. III. MR and MRS. H. B. ROBINSON, Benald. 111. W. V. STREET, Springfield. Ill , superintendent St, Louls-Sprlngficid division Illinois Traction system, E. M. ROSE. Chicago. TiIISS BEATRICE", SENIGER, Springfield. Ill I. C. SCHAFER. St Louis. MISS B. SWANDEN. Springfield. 111. C. WERNER. Champaign. III. Four women and three men. unidentified. uniden-tified. The Injured. Mrs. J. W. Agee, Springfield, 111., bruised Miss Ethel Agee, Springfield, ankle broken and bruised Joseph Clark, Benald, III., slightly cut. Mrs. L. E. Cordurn, Gillespie. III., body crushed. Mrs. G. B. Clifton, Staunton, 111., slight Injuries. William Curie, Springfield, III., express ex-press messenger, hand cut, .Miss Mary Duflner, N'ilwood. III., noso broken. W. V. Duncan, Springfield 111., conductor con-ductor southbound car; hip dislocated, dislocat-ed, foot crushccLand back sprained. Burt Edwards, Mount Olive, Ml., body crnsheJ and serious internal Injuries; In-juries; not expected to live. Jnllus Engelman, O'Fallon, HI , slightly Injured. Mrs. Julius Engelman, O'Fallon. III., bruised. Miss Una Harney, East St. Louis, Ills., bruised 1 John Hohe, Trenton, Ills., jaw broken brok-en Miss Edith Lansford, Hlllsboro. Ill-neck Ill-neck aud foot hurt. C. F Mehl, Staunton, traction con dnctor on southbound car. bruised. V. T. McCail. Gillespie, 111., bruised. C. W. McGoe, Shawneetown, III., slight injuries. George Miller, Troy, HI, back sprained Charles F. Miller. Sparta. 111., chest injured, collar bone broken, rib fractured, frac-tured, serious George O. Ehler, Staunton, 111., bruised. James Parker. Siaunton. bruised. L. Y. Raine, Carlinville. Ill,, dls-hitchcr dls-hitchcr Illinois Traction system, head and chest crushed. Guy Smith. Shaw netown. HI., leg broken. ' Henry L. Saul. Belleville, III., bruised. James Scotland, Gillespie, sldo Injured. In-jured. Samuel A. Tarrant, Brooklyn, N". Y., shoulder dislocated. M. K. Judge. Litchfield. Illinois Traction Trac-tion system Inspector, slight Injuries. Edward White, Decatur, 111., leg Injured. E. J Young. Staunton, III., motor-nion motor-nion on limited. Vilghtly bruised. Miss Ha.'.el Slnweger, Springfield, 111., slightly bruised. Unidentified man: had card with name of Irwiu F. Echerle, Belleville, 111., both legs badly cut Arrest of Motorman. The arrest of Motorman John Liner-inann Liner-inann of Staunton, who handled the controller of the northbound car. has l'een ordered by Coroner Dorils Karnes of Carlinville. MacouplD county, coun-ty, anil tho police were Instructed to look out for him. Llnerniflnn Is said I to have jumped from his car Just bo- ; f .re tho crash and disappeared. , . Included auVinr the passengers who met death wre threo of the most prominent oiflcialj r f the traction sya- I'm. A. W. Street, the superintendent ' of the St. Louis-Springfield dtvl.-lon, was ono aDd the others wc-ro John E. I Berry, bind commissioner, and D E. Bl.lok, master mechanic. , Members of the railroad and ware- I house commission, who took imnie. I Mat? cognizance f the calamity ou telegraphic advices, flre expected to wrlvc here this morning when au In- ' |
