SHOCKING RAILWAY COLLISION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2582, 16 November 1893, Page 4

SHOCKING RAILWAY COLLISION.

Eleven lives were lost and nineteen persons were niailgled and maimed in a collision between a Panhandle passenger train and a milk train of Fort Wayne Kail road at Colehour, near Chicago, on the morning of September 7. Failure to inform the tower, man at Oolehour of the approach of the passenger train brought the two engines on at the same time. They were going in opposite Erections, and both sighted each other when it 'T' as impossible to stop the trains. Every man in tlie smoking car of the Panhandle train wad either killed or injured. Some of the la.ter were so badly mained that they will die. One man breathed his last after being taken from the wreck. Every woman escaped even the slightest injury, and the engineers and fireman on both trains sprang from their cabs and were saved. When the engineers of the colliding train sighted each other round coming around the curve they made every effort to check the trains, but with little effect. When about 100 yards from each other they jumped. The scenes around the wreck were agonising. The dead and wounded were pinned down in such a manner that before the wrecking train arrived it was almost impossible to extricate any of the bodies. In the meantime the pries of the dying were terrible to hear. Blood from the mang ed 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 dismembered bodies.