Deseret Evening News | 1903-08-24 | Page 1 | Passengers Shaken Up

UP I In fly Ily n a it I Collision on Illinois Cent nil Nemi p 1 I lou mu I On III Ill I Aug or more passengers Were NO seriously s In juie some corns p perhaps fatally by b a t pe pc peculiar peculiar culiar cular collision at the junction of the time Illinois Central and nn Lake 1110 West Vest Vestera era railroads 11 I two miles southeast tor of this city Ity shortly before b tor noon noomi today tOn While a I passenger er train westbound on th the latter late mod was 11 passing ow or orth the th crossing a 1 car of ot stock which woe being pushed by a switch engine on 01 the time Illinois Central broke loose locse from the engine mimi and dished dashed eUhl into tho the side of th the pas nger train trin with terrIfic force torI breaking the coach In two lo ansi and an Injuring nearly every ever one of or the 60 occupants The coach coch ch woo WM 1 thrown thron over on Its 18 sIde ami partially down an In embankment The train CI removed the Injured to neighboring n farm far houses for tor or ml care and others iere brought to the th hospital In this oily city 01 on a special t 11 n The Th crossing has hap long been a 1 dangerous one OM the lug JR Tour Four I aso nIO cross Ing Jag the tracks of ot tho the Central but a short phort distance away awn Aa and Is t unprotected by b either target or Interlocking plant