Chicago, IL Train Wreck, Jan 1893

RAILROAD WRECK

A Number Of People Injured

An Accommodation Train Telescoped by a Through Express on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois.

Chicago, Jan. 14 -- The Crete accommodation on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois road, leaving Dearborn station at 7:20 o'clock yesterday evening, was telescoped at Fifty-fifth street by a Chicago and Erie through train to New York. The accommodation train consisted of three coaches filled with suburban residents on their way to their homes. Fifteen people were severely injured in the wreck, and scarcely any one of the 150 or more passengers escaped some bruises or minor injury.
To add to the horror of the scene, the center coach of the accommodaton train caught fire from the overturned stove, while three passengers, two women and one man were caught in the wreckage close to the flames, and were cut away from their perilous position by the heroic efforts of their fellow passengers.
The list of injured is as follows:
D. B. CALDWELL, both legs broken.
MRS. E. C. MAYHEW, internally injured.
WILLIAM B. SMITH, cut over eyes and back injured.
LOTTIE BOYD, badly bruised and internally injured.
F. B. MARSHALL, both legs crushed below the knees.
MRS. F. MOORE, left leg and side bruised.
MRS. R. B. WATKINS, head and neck bruised and legs crushed.
JOHN CLEMENGER, head cut and legs bruised.
MRS. E. A. MITOFF, back injured.
FREDA KITCHIK, head bruised.
MRS. S. S. NAU, left foot and back bruised.
J. R. COFFMAN, cut on head.
JOHN RAYMOND, private Company D, Seventeenth infantry, of Brooklyn, back and legs bruised and internally injured, may die.
L. F. TRUMAN, left leg broken and back and side bruised.

The Marion Daily Star Ohio 1893-01-14
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Researched and Transcribed by Stu Beitler. Thank you, Stu!