THE ILLINOIS RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
[Special to Press Association. J A TERRIBLE SCENE. LONDON, August 13. (Received August 16,1887, »t 1.15 a.m.) The accident to the- train- at Illinois occurred at midnight. The first engine cleared the bridge ;out the second, to which was attached ten carriages crammed with passengers, wreoked, six of the carriages being telescoped. The wreckage ignited, and thosewho were not injured and the least wounded desperately combated the flames for four hours, smothering the fire with handfuls of earth, until a torrent of rain extinguished it. Meanwhile the wounded remained without attention and suffered great agony from want of water. Two of the male passengers who dreaded the approach of fire committed suicide. Prowlers robbed many of the dead and wounded, but desisted on a lynching party being organised. The driver of the second engine was beheaded. One hundred and fifty were killed, and 300 wounded, many fatally. The hindmost carriages, composed of sleeping cars, escaped from accident.
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Evening Star, Issue 7290, 15 August 1887, Page 2
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