Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1907 — FAST TRAIN IN A WRECK. [ARTICLE]

FAST TRAIN IN A WRECK.

Lake .Shore's Twentieth Cezizry Limited Meets with Accident. The Twentieth Century Limited, the 18-hour New York-Chicago flyer of the Lake Shore railroad, was wrecked in collision with a freight train while s;>:x‘ding toward Chicago. Many persons were injpTed. Passengers, hurled frpqi their berths and chairs, were in panic. The train, one of the two fastest in the world, smashed into the wreekagi* of n derailed freight just outside of Chesterton, Ind., nt 7:31 a. in. Three forward cars and the locomotive were hurled from the track. Many of the passengers, including men and women making the Hying trip from New York to Chicago, were crushed and badly bruised. The Limited's cars, which webe thrown off the track when the engine struck the freight wreck, were the buffgt and dining cars and the last sleeper. A number ot men were in the buffet <Ar and several groups of both men and women had taken seats in the diner, while others either were still asleep or dressing in the sleei>ers when the terrific crash came. The Twentieth Century Limited, running daily ot* an ISdiour schedule between New York and Chicago, is made up of «n eight-stateroom sleeping and observation car, a twelve-section and a slxteensectioa drawing room sleeping car, and buffet, ••nuking, library and h«vrage cars