Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1893 — MURDER OF INNOCENTS. [ARTICLE]

MURDER OF INNOCENTS.

Another Rear-End Collision on a World’s Fair Excursion. The Fatai Faihlon of Running In Two Sections the Cause—Seventeen Killed. Michigan occurred at Jackson at 8:50 o'clock, Friday morning, right in the Michigan Central yards. Two sections of a Delaware, Lackawana & Western Chicago excursion train came together. The first section was in the yard, just east of the gate, some of the passengers being in the depot eating breakfast, when the second section came thundering down the track, and before any one realized whai was going on the coaches were p.led on top of each other in a confused mass, and the shouts and groans of the wounded and dying*filled the air for blocks around. The air brake had failed to work. The engineer saw the semaphore up when hitrain passed the Junction, and he tried ustop the train, but he could not control it. The crash was terrible. The two rear car? went clear through each other, and every passenger in the two telescoped coachcwas either Killed or injured. Immediately the work of rescue wabegun and as quick as the unfortunate? could be taken out, the dead wore carried to temporary morgues and the injured t. the most convenient shelter. Every con ceivable kind of conveyance was pressed into service in conveying the dead and Injured from the scene, and willing hands did all within their power to aid in the work of rescue. The third coach in front of the telescoped cars was a special from Domer and Courtland, N. Y., with thirtyeight passengers on board. They were terribly shocked and thrown about, but no one was seriously Injured. Judge Eggleston, of Courtland, was one of the number, and had his clothes partly tori; off, but he was uninjured.