| Show killa 95 H IT 5 agh SCORES CORES 8 ARE INJURED WHEN FREIGHT CRASHES INTO TRAM AT CHICAGO many any VI Victims c timi were in masquerade costume on way home from B big ig Hallow halloween elen party chicago ten passengers were killer and two score injured some seriously when a chicago milwaukee st paul railroad freight train backing into the yards here wrecked a crowded streetcar crossing the tracks most of the vacti victims n s were returning from a Hal halloween hallowed lowee n party and many were in in masquerade costumes the dead are catherine Rued hausen 21 mrs mr mary garrity 35 and 4 year old daughter daught er anna may mrs elizabeth burns bums 40 unidentified woman 20 patrick OMa llcy 67 57 bennie cada lied 30 william welch 45 dr M 70 elmer Balan fleth mrs mra garrity and her daughter I 1 were s suffocated and trampled in in the panic which ensued when the streetcar was shunted across the street ana crashed into a watch mans tower coroners physicians said police squads squad and firemen who rushed rushe to the scene found the passengers screaming and fighting in the darkness dar kress for or the exits rescuers used saws axi and crowbars to break away the wreckage and extricate the victims I 1 joseph brake 59 cross crossing watch man was ordered held for t the he coroners inquest after policemen found the gates which protect the crossing crossing intact after the accident indicating they said that they had not been low ered to warn the car crew two physicians sic ians who examined brake shortly after after the wreck said lie had been drinking the crews of the streetcar and freight train also questioned were released after railroad and car corn com pany officials promised promis ed coroner Os car wolf they would have them pres ent at the inquest cart carl elsei con ductor and robert glenn motor mati mazi of the car said the crossing gates were up as the car started across thi light of way a ay physicians expressed espro ased doubt reg ird ins ing the recovery of six six of the anju injured red among them two small children and women john baskett Gd Ga a railroad sw switch itch man told questioners the crossing gates had bad been lowered while some cars were switched on another track but had been raised when abc the freight ti ain am was w is about fifteen feet from t the h e crossing lie ile said he shouted to t the h e tower man mail to lower the gates and a d signalled signal led to the engineer of the train to stop but the collision ion allis occurred before he made himself icard acard olson the conductor said aid s he saw lic he tower man raise the gates and ran to the crossing ile he looked in in both direction he stated but did not see he nc approaching train and nd signalled signal led the motorman to proceed most of the passengers were rela ives and friends fi lends who had attended a 1 pirty party in in the neighborhood of the a acci acl lent dent one of the bodies was identified later in in the day a as that of louise Rued hausen sister of catherine who also aiso was killed the identification aas aa made by relatives |
