People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — DANGERS OF TRAVEL. [ARTICLE]

DANGERS OF TRAVEL.

Two Serious Railway Accidents la Illinois —Collision Be wren Santa Fe Trains Near Joliet in Which Three Men Are Killed—A Praia Rolls Dowa an Kmbaukment Near Dixon and Many Paaaengera Are Injured. Joliet, HL, Jan. 25. —In a wreck on the Santa Fe Tuesday morning near Millsdale, 9 miles south of here, three xtsn were killed. Their names are: A. M. Bohn, engineer, Brighton Park, IlL; M. J. Mahoney, brakeman, and Richard Mitchell, engineer, Chillicothe, IIL Two large engines now lie directly across the tracks, side by side, and twelve cars are piled up one on top of the other. Train No. 43, a way freight, left Joliet Tuesday morning, as nsuaL for the west. At Patterson, a small station 5 miles down the road, Conductor William Anglnm received orders to meet the fourth section of train No. 40, eastbound, at Millsdale. At Patterson, he claims, the register showed the third section of train No. 40 as having cleared. As he had no orders for that train be started on for Millsdale to meet the fourth section. The operator at Patterson, Mr. Cross, says the register showed only the second section of 40 in. The way freight and the third section of No. 40 came together at a sharp curve and in a blinding snowstorm a mile this side of Millsdale. Engineer A. M. Rahn, of Brighton Park, reversed his brakes and stuck to his post. He and Brakeman M. J. Mahoney were buried under the wreck and their bodies have not yet been recovered. Engineer Richard Mitchell, of Chillicothe, HL, also reversed his lever and jumped. He was caught and killed. The loss to the company will be between SIOO,OOO and $125,000. The road is entirely blocked. Freeport, IIL, Jan. 25. One of the worst wrecks ever experienced on the Illinois Central road occurred Tuesday morning at 6:30 o’clock at Woosung, a small station near here on the southern branch. Tbe , train was the La Salle passenger, which was bound for Freeport The accident was caused by a broken raiL The baggage car, mail car, smoker and passenger coach were thrown from the track down a 30-foot embankment. All the passengers were more or less injured and two of them may die. The large drift of snow in a measure lessened the fall and prevented greater injury. The injured are as follows: R. G. Nurgess, of Portland, Me., traveling salesman for Yale Look company, collar bone fractured and severe internal injuries, may die; Charles Dunning, representative of Collins & Burgio Stove company, Chicago, badly hurt In ternally, may prove'fatal; L. Friedlander, traveling .man, Chicago, scalp wound; W. E. Henning, Detroit, Mich., injured about body; A. C. Metiver, Chicago, cut on bead and injured Internally; C. L. Mellhouse, Peoria, IIL, traveling agent of the Santa Fe road, injured on head and about body; Lincoln Tefft, Marshalltown, la, formerly of Warren, slight injuries; H. C. Tillinghast, Chicago, injured about the body; G B. Kirtland, Chicago, injuries about the head; Joseph Shuler, Mendota, back injured; Matt Walters, Mendota, bridgeman, leg broken and otherwise injured; L. E. Jenkins, assistant foreman of carpenters for the Illinois Central, Internal injuries; George G. McCarthy, Freeport, conductor, cut on head; M. Pence, brakeman, slight injuries; N. W. Harlacker, Cedarville, postal clerk, injured about breast and legs.