Chicago, Illinois
Elevated Train Wreck
May 30, 1899
FORTY ARE INJURED
COLLISION AT CHICAGO ON LAKE STREET ELEVATED
ROAD YESTERDAY-CREATES PANIC AMONG PASSENGERS
EXPRESS TRAIN CRASHES INTO THE LOCAL TRAIN AT
OAKLEY AVENUE STATION
A RAILROAD ACCIDENT
CHICAGO, May 31, --Forty people were injured
in a collision on the Lake Street
Elevated railroad yesterday afternoon at 2
o'clock. The Harlem race track special
ran into a regular local train at the Oakley
avenue station. Panic seized the
passengers, who rushed from the cars cut and
with blood flowing from their
wounds. The last reports of the collision show
that three people were internally
injured and two score more cut, bruised and
severely shocked.
A partial list of the victims follows:
HALPIN, WM,
195 West Madison street; face and hands cut.
JOYCE, W. A., 142 Lake avenue, Oak
Park; back injured.
KANE, GEO., 220 Wells street, arm
sprained.
LYON, A., 1351 Lake street, right arm
cut.
MILLER, H., 3349 Forest avenue, Oak
Park; internally injured.
MOONEY, P., 991 Park avenue; back cut
and sprained.
MOONERT, CHAS., 170 Park avenue;
right knee sprained.
MOLIEX, N.O., 38 Francisco street;
face cut and contused.
O'DELL, HENRY, 41 St. John Place,
hand injured.
O'LEARY, DANIEL, slightly hurt.
ROTH, E.C., 46 Cass street, left hand
cut and side and shoulder strained.
RILEY, E.J., 43 Wilmont avenue, right
rib fractured.
ROBOCK, MISS GRACE, 3241 Forest
avenue, Oak Park; internally injured.
SAXON, MRS., 1314 Prairie avenue, Oak
Park; internally injured.
TUBERG, MISS W., 671 Erie street.
TASER, L. W., 755 Walnut street;
bruised and shocked
WILKIN, G., 224 Park avenue; face
cut.
C.H. Smith was the motorman on the
special. He said he had been in the company's
employ for two years. He was in motor car No.
125, and stated he was running his train at a
moderate rate of speed. Passengers assert that
the train was going at a twelve-mile-an-hour
rate. The special at a standstill came out of
the mix-up as the later was about to leave the
station. The motorman said he thought the
forward train was moving, and when he saw it was
still at a halt he put on the air brakes, but
there was no response, and so he reversed his
motor lever. He was not quick enough, however,
for the special hit the rear coach of the local
a smashing, terrible blow.
The passengers within the cars were thrown
and hurled in all directions. One man standing
on a rear platform was pitched through the back
window of the car. Others were thrown from one
seat over another and finally landed in the
aisle. The motorman of the special was
uninjured. The people in the last car of the
regular train were as badly shaken up and
bruised as any of the passengers. In fact, it is
said that the train that was at a standstill cme
[sic] out of the mix-up much the worse of the
two.
Though the collision means a big loss to the
elevated road, and caused many a disability
among the passengers, it was not without
humorous features. The hundred people or more
who had their heads out of the windows were
thrown back so sharply that their hats flew off
in all directions. There was a shower of all
kinds of
millinery from the two trains, the hats dropping
about in the muddy street below.
Fort Wayne News, Fort Wayne, In 31 May
1899
Transcribed by Connie.
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