. Annual report of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Illinois . Ry. Co. engine No. 430 wasin charge of engineer Moses Hinkle and fireman Whalen. 3. C. I. & L. Ry. Co., engine 430 struck the rear end of the sixth carfrom the engine in the Santa Fe train, tourist sleeper No. 1448, knocked itoff the track and against the interlocking tower, and crushed in the southside of the rear end of this sleeper. The seventh car, tourist sleeper was also damaged, the front platform and vestibule being smashed passengers in these two cars were injured, seven of these bein
. Annual report of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Illinois . Ry. Co. engine No. 430 wasin charge of engineer Moses Hinkle and fireman Whalen. 3. C. I. & L. Ry. Co., engine 430 struck the rear end of the sixth carfrom the engine in the Santa Fe train, tourist sleeper No. 1448, knocked itoff the track and against the interlocking tower, and crushed in the southside of the rear end of this sleeper. The seventh car, tourist sleeper was also damaged, the front platform and vestibule being smashed passengers in these two cars were injured, seven of these being takento hospitals, and the other four being but slightly injured. None of thepassengers were injured to any great extent, the most serious being onlybadly bruised and cut with glass. 4. The information gathered by the officials of the two roads concerneddeveloped the fact that C. I & L. engine No. 430 was being backed up towardthe crossing at a rate of from 18 to 20 miles per hour. When within about1500 or 1800 feet of the interlockcr, tlie engineer saw the semaphone. 261 governing movements on the C. & W I R R nnrth , „^showed a red light, indicating stoiT* TM= V;, /^ ^^ passenger trackuntil the engine was quite ci?se to th^ i.^^nf ^^^J-^ ^^ maintainedsouth of the crossing- frog where the acoidP^f^n ^^ ^^ * ^^ 1^5 feetgineer had misjudgell the^ dViancf or h speed ^^^^^l^^ ^ «^-Indiana R. R. Co. tracks on one of wh pt? L^ ^^ Chicago & Western curve to the east. Hadthe e^inerr of enine No^To^n; ^^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^^Pcaution in approaching the crossin^^ anri fh °- ^Z^ ^^^^ ^i°§^ due pre- tracks at this point, he should Sve been ablTo^f v^^ ^^ ^^ ti^^a very short distance. This is one nfth. i. f^ ^ ^^^^ ^^-^^e withinin the city of Chicago. The .mdersLned Tr. .^m^^T^ ^^^ crossings sto^p?ortL^;%^;ot nr ThfL-trtTo^^sf^^r r ^^^^ ^« -^^ ^^^ properWhen approaching sSch a dang^s po?nt n^nTt^^;!, ^^ °^ ^^^ J«°koutcertainly lays with these two men ^ ^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^°^ ^^^e acc
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