| Show TEN KILLED 95 HITS cah SCORES ARE INJURED WHEN FREIGHT CRASHES INTO TRAM AT CHICAGO many victims were in masquerade costume on way home from dig Hallow halloween elen party chicago 1 T ten en passengers were kill ed cd and two score core s injured some seriously when a chicago milwaukee st paul railroad freight train backing into the yards here wrecked a cr crowded streetcar crossing the tracks most of the victims were returning from a halloween party and many were in masquerade costumes the dead are catherine R Rued hausen 21 mrs mary garrity 35 and 4 cearold daughter anna afa may y mrs elizabeth burns 40 anide unidentified notified woman 20 p P patrick d tr le k OMa llcy 57 67 bennie cada lierl 30 william welch 45 dr id 70 elmer Balan fleth mrs airs garrity and her daughter were suffocated and trampled in the pa panic n w which aich ensued when the streetcar was shunted across the street ann ana crashed into a watch mans tower coroners physicians said police squads and firemen who rushed to the scene found the passengers screaming and fighting in the darkness for the exits rescuers used saws axes and crowbars to td breal break away the wreckage and extricate the victims joseph brake 59 crossing watchman was 0 ordered held for the coroners inquest after policemen found the gates which protect the crossing intact after the accident indicating they said that they had not been lowered to warn the car crew two physicians sic ians who examined brake shortly after the wreck said ho he had been drinking the crews of the streetcar an and freight train also questioned were released after railroad and car corn pany officials promised promis vol coroner oscar wolf they would have them present at the inquest carl olsen conductor and robert glenn motorman motor mot maii of the car said the crossing gates gatea were up as the car started across ahk railroad right of way physicians Physic iana expressed doubt regarding the recovery of six of the injured among them two small children and several women john baskett Ga a railroad switchman told questioners the crossing gates had been lowe lowered while some cars were switched on another track but had been raised when the freight train was about fifteen feet from the crossing ile he said he shouted to the tower man to lower the gates and signalled signal led to the engineer of the train to stop but the collas collision ion 1 occurred ed before he made himself heard olson oison the conductor said he saw s aw the tower man raise the gates and ran to the crossing he looked in both li Il he stated but did not see the he approaching train and signalled signal led the motorman motor maritto to proceed most of the passengers were relatives and friends who had attended a party in the neighborhood odthe of the accident one of the bodies was wan identified ater in the day as thant tha t of lou louise ise Rued hausen sister of catherine who also was killed the identification was made by relatives |
