| Show AE KILLED i C IN A TRAIN WRECK I Head End 1 l Collision on the Chi Chicago 0 0 ago cago Alton Road 0 r 4 SIX s INJURED d I 7 ON SIDE TR t vax I St Louis Aug 21 A to the tha from Jacksonville Ills says The Chicago Alton AlUm hum hummer hummer mer iner which left Chicago at test last t night was wrecked in a 8 col coI collision linen with a way freight in the rail railroad railroad road yards at Prentice twelve miles inn north of ot here at 1299 1118 a Ii m killing 0 five persons and injuring six ata others otters The Dead 0 Con Corn Sheehan engineer of the pas paz passenger passenger train John Adams fireman of the t e passes passenger passenger ger train Three unknown men who were on the tender 0 The Injured Robert KUey Kiley Jacksonville leg brok broken en injured internally W Howatt Bloomington fireman of freight ribs crushed Charles Marshall SL St Louis arm broken scalp wound Charles Strums Simms Longdale Langdale Ills IUs sec see section section 0 tion hand badly cut about head and aad chest chesL William Mason lIason Stuttgart Ark ribs broken A L Wod engineer of freight slightly Injured All the passengers escaped injury a few fe only being slightly bruised 0 When the collision coUlston occurred all 11 the lights went want out The two engines were badly wrecked as were also the tenders the smoker and one ORe freight oar car The tender of the passenger pall train telescoped tie he ie smoker which rolled over on its ita side i Just Juet how the accident occurred may maJ never be known One theory is that the freight which was resting on a siding for the hummer to pass pus grad ad gradually unity sUpped slipped down on to the main track without the crew being aware ware a of It Engineer Sheehan was found dead clead in inthe Inthe inthe the cab with his hand on the throttle throttle tle tie His HI legs were caught m to the ma machinery machinery machinery chinery In tn such a way that to save aye the body from front the fire that at one ODe time threatened to burn the wreck they had to be roughly amputated The hummer hammer included three sleep Bleep sleepers ers era one chair car the combination smoker and baggage Most lo t of the paz pas passengers only felt a jar not of sufficient violence to throw them from their seats S D Reeve Alton passenger pa train trainmaster trainmaster master aster was on the hummer ana he took relief measures A special train was ordered from Jacksonville and ar arrived arrived rived at 1 45 with several doctors on onboard onboard board beard All AU that surgeons could do was done promptly fur for the injured and it was wa not very long until the tha relief train was on Its way to Jacksonville Jack with ith its burden of lead dead and injured The injured are being cared for to in a hos boa hospital hospital pital here None is 18 in a serious con condition condl condition I dl |
