The survivors mourn friends who died and wonder why they lived. They think about the outsize impact of small decisions or random twists of fate, like choosing where to sit.
Rescue operations are conducted after two Illinois Central trains crashed at 27th Street on Oct 30, 1972.
Then, Klare got a split-second warning, as the conductor yelled the train would crash. She remembers her friend leaning forward. The women yearned for someone to talk to who could understand what they went through and exchanged some correspondence.With the 50th anniversary in October, Lawarre got back in touch with Klare in the hopes that they can find a way to mark the event.
The train platform was transformed into an outdoor hospital, the paper reported, as emergency crews and personnel from the nearby medical center came to help. Together, the two trains carried nearly 1,000 people, with most of the dead and seriously injured in the rear car of the first train, media reports said.
“Each of them, when we finally got to them, insisted that the other girl be taken out first,” a doctor who responded to the scene told a reporter at the time.The two girls, according to newspaper accounts, were the last two survivors extricated.After the crash, Kathy Bennett eventually went back to work in a downtown building on the 21st floor with a big window. She recalls watching window washers one day, working up high above the city on scaffolding.
Lawarre has physical reminders of the crash too. She has visible dirt embedded in her forehead and a scar across her belly.Klare has had many surgeries since the crash; she continues to suffer from chronic pain and have difficulty with her ankles after both were injured.
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