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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">From the <em>Railroad Gazette</em>:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"><span style="font-size: large;">November 1893</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></o:p></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-size: large;">7<sup>th</sup>, on South Chicago & Southern (a short branch or loop line of the Pittburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago, operated by the Pennsylvania Company), near Colehour, Ill., butting collision between eastbound passenger train No. 12 and westbound passenger train No. 49, making a very bad wreck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eleven passengers and 1 tramp were killed, and 7 passengers and 3 trainmen were injured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The smoking car of train No. 12 was practically demolished, and most of the fatal injuries were in this car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The train dispatcher at Fort Wayne had to make a meeting point for these trains every morning, but on this occasion he sent the order to train 160 instead of train 12.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This order was useless, and on his attention being called to the fact by the conductor of train 49 he altered the order (or issued a new one) for train 49, but postponed the duty of altering the order which had been issued for the eastbound train.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was the fatal error, as the eastbound was the ruling train; and No. 12 passed Colehour on time without orders.</span></span></p>
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