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Show - AIR BRAKES REFUSED TO WORK. And a Switch Engine Crashes into a Depot Platform. Chicago, July 26. A large crowd of colored col-ored people assembled at the Grand Central depot yesterday morning, bound for a picnic at Columbia park. The platforms of the depot were jammed when a switch engine pulled in on the west track, having in tow a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train. The people on the platform say the engine was running twelve miles an hour as it approached ap-proached the end of the track, which terminated ter-minated in front of the platform. Engineer Engi-neer Williams applied the air brakes to stop but for some reason they had no effect. He reversed the enirine and tried to stop, but ;4ie. momentum of the heavy train behind him carried him ahead. The train crashed through the bumper, and into the platform, striking down a number of people. Great confusion ensued, and some colored men wanted to lynch Engineer Williams, but the police rescued him. Nearly twenty people were more or less seriously hurt, and two of tl,m Mm UlinA f ') r r unit 1 1 n n r vT Ynnnir them, Mrs. Dina Carr and Henry Young, will likely die. Engineer Williams asserts that he was only running six miles an hour, and says some one must have tampered with the valves of the air brakes. - - - |