3 KILLED IN CHICAGO WRECK

Theater Train Crashes Into A Loaded Car

TWELVE ARE INJURED

Crowds of People Were Returning From a Theater Party

By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Feb. 12.-A theater train on the Pennsylvania, running at the rate of twenty miles an hour, crashed into a crowded street car in South Chicago last night, instantly killing two persons and injuring twelve. The killed and injured were occupants of the street car. The engine and first coach of the passenger train left the rails and were overturned.

The dead:
MRS WILLIAM BACON, South Chicago.
MINNIE WARSUEL, 12 years old, Chicago.

The injured include the following:
J. C. MACK, East Chicago, engineer; severaly cut about the face and head.
EDWARD M. DAY, motorman of the street car; hurt about the head and body.
C. R. BOLLAR, conductor of street car; cut about neck and head.
MRS. Blanch E. WARSUEL, severely injured about the body.
MRS. LOUIS LUCY, injured internally.
W. B. LINCH, injured internally.

The passenger train was a local, leaving Chicago at 11:34 p.m. for East Chicago, Ind. It was well filled with passengers, who were thrown into a panic by the collision. The street car was hurled into the air, overturned and ground to splinters by the locomotive. The crash came almost without warning, and but few occupants of the street car had an opportunity to leap from the car before it was struck. The passengers of the railway train, however, rushed to the assistance of those imprisoned in the debris and began the work of rescue. Physicians were summoned to aid the injured. The conductor of the railroad train and the crew of the street car were placed under arrest.

The Fort Worth Telegram, Ft. Worth, TX 12 Feb 1906
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