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Show Thirteen Lose Lives in Collission Near Chicago Chi-cago Many Hurt. Chicago. July 15 According to early reports today all of the injured taken to hospitals as a result of tho collision between the Chicago, Burlington Bur-lington & Qulncy overland limited and a mail train at Western Springs yesterday morning, in which 13 persons per-sons were killed and 1G known to lie hurt, were in a condition which indicated in-dicated their recoverj'- Twelve of the injured were taken to St. Anthony Depaduca hospital, and after examination physicians announced an-nounced that none had suffered Injuries In-juries which would be likely to causa death Of the dead three remain undentl-fied undentl-fied These were the bodies of two women wo-men and one girl. The women wero both of middle age and the girl about nine years old. A dual inquiry will be made today in an effort to fix the blame for tho wreck. One will e made by Coroner Hoffman of Cook county and the other by the state railway commission, which will meet in Chicago and go to the scene of the wreck with officials of the road. The conduct of three persons, one of whom is dead, will be Inquired into in an effort to fix tho blame for the wreck. The acts of George Bronson. the engineer of the mall train, who" was killed; Mrs. F. A. Wilcox, tower operator, op-erator, and Flagman John Woodruff of the Overland are tho3e to be questioned. ques-tioned. Both Mrs. Wilcox and Woodruff have said tho ydid their full duty the lormer by placing block signals and the latter by placing torpedoes. Only one thing has been definitely established regarding the cause of the wreck, and that Is that a dense fog played a big part in the disaster. Running Through Fog. Coming through a fog, with supposedly sup-posedly a clear track ahead, train No S. fast mail, ran full speed into the rear of train No 2, known as the Overland express from Denver, which was standing still on tho track, telescoping tele-scoping two of the Overland's Pullman Pull-man cars. Rallraod officials will not fix the blame until the wreck has been investigated in-vestigated thoroughly. Mrs. F. A. Wilcox, who was in charge of the towr from which the block signals were controlled, said sho was certain the block was thrown against both trains. The dead: Francis A. Barclay, 20 years old, Billings, Mont. George Brownson, 55 years old. Galosburg, 111., engineer of train No. 8. G. A. Bunch, 30 years old, Chicago, 5 negro porter of Puliina'n bar on train No. 2 Mrs. C M. Hart, wife of a physician at Canton, Ohio. Mrs E. G. Pohlmann. San Francisco. Fran-cisco. M. E tSern, 40 years old, Chicago G. W Tudor, 40 years, Lacey, Iowa. Lillian Kelley, 22 years old, Boibe. Idaho. Unidentified woman, 45 years old. gray eyes, black and white striped waist and blue skirt. Unidentified woman. 40 years old, light hair, medium build; C. L. H. cn-giaved cn-giaved on jewelry. Unidentified woman, 24 years old, blue eyes two gold crowned teeth on upper left side of mouth. Unidentified girl, 0 years old, light hair, gold band ring, blue and whlta silk dress. Unidentified boy, 4 years old, linen dress, red stockings and black sandals san-dals Among those injured were: Warren P. Dudley, 14 Oak street, Belmont, Mass. Mrs. Bessie M. Dudle. wife of Warren P. Dudley; compound fracture right leg John W. Flack, 'Cincinnati; right leg lacerated, scalp wound. Mrs. Flack, Cincinnati; severe scalp wounds E. G Pohlmann. San Francisco; right arm and right leg broken. llev E. H. Scholz, Francis hospital, Columbus, O.; back injured and scalp wounds. Miss Katherine Griswold, Milwaukee: Milwau-kee: spine Injured and knee cut Miss Lynno Johnson, Chicago; shoulder dislocated and kneo cut. William McLair. 11 years old, 11 Kalamath street, Denver, head and face severely cut. Mrs. E. W. Francis, Bedford, Ind.; severely bruised about body O. R- Marsh, Chicago; back injured J. E. Parsons. Dixon. 111.; burned about the hands and legs H F. Joy. Chicago; arms and hands cut and bruised. Mrs. J. C. Krehl, Girard, Ohio; spine injured and several ribs fractured. All the dead except Brownson wero taken from the rear coach of the Denver Den-ver train The engine of No. S plowed through this car, halving it and crushing crush-ing out the lives of passengers, many of whom stJll were in their berths On into the second coach the engine en-gine then sped. Half way through that car it veered to the left, derailing derail-ing the sleepr. Tho engine was entirely en-tirely stripped when it stopped. Fire started from the gas lights In the sleeprs Immediatelj after tho crash Victims pinned under timbers and iron that had been torn from the engine pleaded for death or deliverance de-liverance from tho flames. Members of the fire departments of Western Springs and La Grange were on the scene within a few minutes min-utes and put out tho fire. Ghouls are believed to have robbed the dead before they reached tho morgue in La Grange. More than a dozon largo diamond sets were mi-ss ing from jewelry and although most, of the dead appeared to have been persons in comfortable circumstances, 11 dime was the largest sum of mocny found on any of the bodies. |