Shocking Railway Accident

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 107, 2 November 1893, Page 2

Shocking Railway Accident

— -♦- Eleven lives were lost and nineteen persons were mangled and maimed in a collision between a Panhandle passenger train and a milk train of the Fort Wayne Railroad at Colehour, near Chicago, on the inornim? of September 7. Failure to inform the tower man at Colehour of the approach of the passenger train brought the two engines on the same line. They were going in opposite directions, and both sighted each other when it was impossible to stop the trains. Every man in the smoking car of the Panhandle train was either killed or injured. Some of the latter are so badly maimed that they will die. One man breathed his last after being taken from the wreck. Every women escaped even the slightest injury and the engineers and firemen on both trains snrang from their cabe and were saved. When the engineers of the colliding trains sighted each other coming round the curve tuey made every effort to check the train*, but with little effect. When about a hundred yards from each other they j\uup*l The scenes around the ww.k vc*w a^maing. The dead and wound*! wm* pinned down in such a uiamtttr that before the wrecking train arrived it was almost impossible to extricate auy of the bodies. In the meantime the cries ol the dying were terrible to hear. Blood from the mangled ones soaked its way down and made puddles of red in the sands outside. Through fragments of debris could be seen arms, legs, mangled heads, and discoloured bodies.