The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-04
THE CINCINNATI SOUTHERN COLLISION,
Story that Additional Remains Have Been
Found-A Denial from the Roads Officials.
Is East Washington Street.

i CINCINNATI, Jan. "a telegram from Green
wood, KY, says: The fear grows hourly that
the most terrible part of the story of Saturdays
wreck remains to be told. AS time wears on
and the wreck is being cleared away. the pres
ence Of more victims id the debris become ap-
parent. When the wreck occurred q number of
passengers who were in the ladies' coach and
smoking-car on the north-bound train were
supposed to have succeeded in making their es-
cape from tho cars with trifiina injuries. just
who they were and how many was not known
Last night the horrible mistake was discovered
when the bon es of two unfortunates were found
reduced almost to ashes buried with the burned
cars. Mr.. c. c. Gillespie, of Beaver, a small
settlement near this place, visited the wreck last
night. While digging In the ruins he discovered
the hair attached to the scalp of a woman. The
flesh, OF course, was burned away. but the long
locks are in a good state Of preservation. There
is absolutely nothing by which they can be
identified, and it is not certain whether
the oones are those Q. ~ maze e. 10.
where the hair was found, Mr.. Gillespie found
chid's shoe. The other shoe has not yet been
found. neither has any account been given OF the
loss of child. A little deeper in the debris, in
the same spot where the hair and shoe were
found, Gillespie picked up letter: 1t was writ
ten in good plain feminine hand dated at St
Augustine, Fla, addressed to "Dear Lula" and
signed "Bena." There is nothing in the letter
to give any clue to the name Of the writer or re-
C6lVer' envelope
After the accident q search was made for an
unknown man who was seen to enter the toilet
room of the ladies' coach on the north bound
train an instant before the crash came. He was
never seen again. and all efforts to locate him
prove futile. It is believed that he was unable
to get out of the little apartment and was burned
to death in the It is believed that the
bones found last night are those of the man and
woman. The child was probably with its
mother. and died with her. its body being buried
in the debris The suspicion grows that there
are mos a h1r lad in a 20 ara
extricated
Referring to the special report from Green
wood, Ky, to the effect that additional remains
of victims had been found in the debris of Sat-
urdavs wreck on the Cincinnati Southern road
Superintendent Carroll says there is not q par
ticie of truth in the story. He says that every
empoye of the road connected with both trains
and all the passengers have been accounted for
Mrs. Aveys condition rem aims about the same.
j. II. Alvey died at his residence in Covington.
KY, and his wife is reported to be in dying
condition. The other wounded are doing we'll.
To set at rest all apprehension of greater IA
ta,ity than has been reported il the accident
Saturday the officers Of the Cincinnati South
ern have prepared a list of passengers on the
north bound train, with q statement Of what be-
came of each one.
This train was made up at CHATTANOOGA the
New Orleans train having missed connection.
There were in the train but thirteen passengers.
eleven of whom had tickets and two had passes.
Miss Green, who was killed. had a trip pass, her
brother being one Of the head clerks in the
freight department of the road. Mr.. Burch, of
sidney, O., NAG an annuaI DaeS. on account OF
being passing agent of the Chicago e. Alton
railroad He injured. Those who had
tickets as follows:
John r. Gibson. of Cincinnati, who is at his
home badly injured; Mr.. j. 81. Alvey who died
at Covington; Mrs. j. Fl. Avey, now very low
at her home in Covington; Mr.. Campbell. of
Hanoverton, Ohio. who is st the Good Samara-
tin Hospital. doing well; A lady and gentleman
and little child of Lexington, whose tickets read
from Tuscumbia Ala; they were not injured;
Miss Bena Koche, of Ripley, Ohio, who was not
injured; Mr.. Burnett and child. OF Cincinnati,
who were not injured; Mr.. Sternberger, of
Piqua. Ohio, who escaped injury; Mrs. Traub,
of Indianapolis. not injured; Mr.. JOS Hepp, of
Covington, KY. injured. but doing well.
In addition to these passengers the following
employees were on the train: Engineer Michaels,
fireman Murphy. both injured; express messen-
ger Powell, killed; baggage master Callan
killed; fireman on his way to Somerset, not
hurt; newsboy Sackett, slightly hurt; brake
man Patton, slightly hurt: porter Joe Nolan,
scratched; Conductor Shrum, not hurt; and the
employees of the Pullman and Mann cars. none
of whom were Injured.
The officials of the road say further that if
any charred bodies have been found, they were
the bodies of tramps who might have been
stealing ride on the trucks. but the crew saw
no one riding there The only body burned was
that of fireman Cande. who was the engine
of the south-bound train. No passengers were
injured on the south bound train, but some Of
the crew were killed and some were injured.