Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1902 — FATAL WRECK IN ILLINOIS, [ARTICLE]

FATAL WRECK IN ILLINOIS,

Four People Killed, Tbirty-Fl Ta Injured at Malta, lIL Plunging through an open switch at Malta, 111., a heavily loaded freight train on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Sunday morning into the Atlantic special passenger, standing on the siding, killing four people and Injuring thirty-five others, some of them perhaps fatally. The wrecked cars caught fire from the overturned engines and those on board not dead or pinioned in the wreck fled in terror, clad only in their night garments. Many of these were severely scalded by the steam and boiling water which poured into the last Pullman coach from the broken freight engine lying beside it. The collision occurred at 5 o’clock in the morning, and was the most disastrous, both in regard to loss of life and property, the Northwestern has sustained for many years. The dear are E. B. Duncan, Pullman porter, Chicago; B. 0. Nichols, Council Bluffs, la.; G. W. Rudio, Omaha, Neb., manager Kirk Soap Company; Mrs. G. W. Rudio, died from injuries at 9 o’clock Sunday night at St. Luke’s Hospital.