Show CR 5 9 2 EXPRESS SS TRAIN R S IN INE 5 E Persons Killed One Fatally Hurt and TV nty ight Slightly Injured In Terrible Trolley Car Accident In Chicago AuG Auff 17 Four persons CHICAGO C j were killed au Ither ther ty hurt hurtS S and twentythree injured in a C collision late th afternoon ft bo be between tween an t on the ue Great Western railroad and a of or three tiree trolley cars cans bound for tor th Slaw aw thorne race track The dead d In 11 Injured follow fonow Dead Mrs Irs Frances Francos William Irvins died in hospital aft r amputation of or teg Mrs Jeremiah Danville Jj Unidentified woman about 31 rs old Fatally Injured Michael Ryan frac fractured frACtured fractured The Thc injuries of the others consisted O of or cuts outs bruises and sprains 1 The Thc accident occurred at the crossing of For avenue a nue and the Chicago C Great Western tracks The tram taun was as coming into the city elt and according ac to torome some rome witnesses was running at atS aC a hl tt rate of speed Others and thain crew say that they were not going oVer oYer oer twenty miles mUes an hour Going at High Speed The Che trolley train ft which was w ws mad l ade up no of A motor car r c and two trailers was as ae asin in charge of or Conductor W V H FL COndOR Condon t and Motorman Michael Ryan It ap approached approached the th crossing at a rapid speed I just as the train came MI a sharp curve curc Ryan Iyan put on the tile rakes brakes but t they the refused r to work The car struck f the train Just between the engine audi andr the tender The motor car was torn t ni to I f splinters the car immediately behind turned over smashed nearly to pieces pie and dragged dra ed along alone the track for ltd 10 1 feet The third car was CiS dragged front from the tracks and but for fer the fact that the t th ico couplings between it and the sec see second anti ond trailer broke ke the list of or the thc in j probably w would uld be larger as all cars car were filled led with passengers rs I a Hero flero Heroo o Ryan remained at his pose poet and aM was fatally hurt To tho those e who came mC to aid him while he lay on the ground he said The T brakes would not t work ork That was what caused It When I saw that they would not work I reversed tte the current Now get aside and be and I will be all aU right Immediately after saying this Ryan Ran became unconscious lou At the hospital it was as found that his skull was frac fractured rae tU and death a matter of or hours only Tie The scene of the accident is L in the suburbs and ana it was wu some time before beor ambulances and aud physicians reach but the injured poe pas passengers and one physician with the crew did all aU possible po to aM d the suffering sufferingS Saved S ved by Being Polite All of the persons killed occupied seats eata in the front of the first car One woman yet unidentified at the tb rue had just taken a seat eat offered hop h by William Tennis Tenn She was rolled rotted under tinder the motor car and horribly man sled 1100 Tennis after ter giving grUng up UI his seat t tent went kent ent to the rear te roC of the car and andes es escaped with slight injuries All AU the th members mem rs of the Chicago Great Western train crew and the t conductors of the trolley cars can Were ere placed d under arrest a pending an in inquiry inquiry Inquiry |