Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1912 — THIRTEEN KILLED AND MANY INJURED IN WRECK. [ARTICLE]

THIRTEEN KILLED AND MANY INJURED IN WRECK.

J. J. Montgomery Was Formerly Fireman on One of the Trains Which Was Wrecked. 2 . - • . ~v -. ■ l *: r r y~ • ?/' 0 Thirteen persons were killed and* about twenty were injured in a o wreck on the -Chicago, Burligton & Quincy railroad at Western Springs, a suburb of Chicago, early Sunday morning. .Coming through a\ fog with supposedly a clear track ahead, train No. >, ar fast s mail, ran at full speed into the rear of train No. 2, known as the overland express from Denver, which was standing still on. the track, telescoping two of the Overlahd’s Pullman cars. The dead are Miss Lillian Kelly, of Boise, Idaho; Frdncis A. Barclay, of Billings, Montana; George Brownson, of Galesburg, Ill.; the engineer of train 8; A. E. Burch,#hegro porter; Mrs. C. M. Hart, of Canton, .O.; Mrs. B. G. Pohlman, of San Francisco; M. E. Stern, of Chicago, G. W. Tudor, of Lscy. - Iowa; two unidentified women; two unidentified girls and one unidentified boy. J. J. Montgomery, of Rensselaer, was formerly fireman on train No. 8, running from Galesburg to Chicago. Frank D. Hughes, of Hinsdale, 111., conductor on train No. 8, who was injured in the wreck, was the conducob a train' In 1885, which was wrecked, killing ftve passengers and the engineer. Mr. Montgomery’s brother-in-law was one of those killed. He was master mechanic on the road and was riding on the engine testing it, when it ran into an open switch. He was thrown a great distance from the engine, being killed instantly. V/v.'.-.-