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(Continued from Page 1)the stopped train, said he waited more than 30 minutes in zero degree weather before being helped from the disabled train.“THERE WAS NO damage inside the car except for the window next to me. People had fallen in the aisle and there was some groaning in anguish from the pain. I saw a lot of bloodied lips and teeth knocked out,” he said.The rear car in Johnson’s train was a hulk of mangled metal and splintered glass tipped upward at a 45-degree angle. Rescue workers had to use torches to free at least two of the trapped passengers. Others scrambled out through shattered windows.Other passengers reported screams and panic-stricken efforts to escape. But Chicago Police Sgt. Lawrence Schreiber, one of the first on the scene, said it was strangely quiet moments after the crash.“There was blood and .broken bones,” he said. “I could see one woman who looked like her legs werecompletely crushed, but even she was not screaming.”BLOODIED SURVIVORS were carried off on stretchers and taken by ambulances to eight different hospitals. Other passengers, apparently less seriously hurt, stumbled away in the bitter cold.Johnson said normally he would not have been riding on the CTA’s Jefferson Park rapid transit line that runs down the center of the Kennedy Expressway. He said he usually boards a Chicago and North Western Ry. train at the Arlington Park station.But Friday morning he drove to the CTA’s Montrose Avenue station where he climbed aboard the ill-fated train.“I am damn thankful,” Johnson said from his Northwest Community Hospital bed. “It scared the hell out of me. When I saw the glass just totally knocked out of that window ... I looked for my hat, but it was lost between the two trains.”A complete list of the injured passengers was not available Friday.
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Arlington Heights Herald
Arlington Heights, Illinois, US
Sat, Jan 10, 1976
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