Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-02-12 | Page 3 | Trains behind Schedule Hit at Davenport

J SCHEDULE HIT IT tAT DAVENPORT r r Freight and Passenger I Meet Headon When Engineer Engineer En En- of Each Believes He Has Right of Way DAVENPORT Ia la Feb 12 FIve Five persons were er Injured and are ai at local hospitals as the result of a coWMen collision between bet a northbound Milwaukee freight train and a southbound Burlington passenger train at 5 o'clock this morning In Inthe Inthe Inthe the eastern part of ot the city The Injured Harry jHarry Raymond Galesburg en en of passenger tr train ln both legs badly scalded C. C Moore Galesburg fireman on passenger legs and body scalded condition serious T. T G. G Becker Rock Island Ill baggage man on passenger minor Injuries A A. W. W PhIleo Rock Island Ill Ill passenger slightly Injured Catholic nun name unknown slightly injured Both trains were behind schedule schedule sched sched- nb ule and were ere traveling at a fast tast rate of ot speed the engineer of each believing he had a n. clear right of way The two tv locomotives were staved into one another and are badly damaged The iMie cars were piled on top of each other and nd demolished i