The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-01-04
4 Mistake in Reading Orders Causes Terri
bic Railroad COLLISION.
Two Cincinnati Southern "CGnnon-blN"
Trains Completely Wrecked.
LIST Of the Passengers and Ttiinm,n
Kutwn to DO Klllsd or Ipjlrsd.
Aid Sent to the scene ofthe DIsaster-BOth
Engines Closely Locked-RsmOy-
ing the Dead and Wounded.

Oh the Cincinnati Southern took place one
mile south of Greenwood, KY, on a sixty
foot exnbankment, midway between tun-
nels and 8. The following are the killed:
Lee Withrow, baggagemaster, Ludlow,
KY, head crushed and throat cut with
IRON bar; James Severens, postal clerk.
Stanford, KY, conclusion of brain, died
tonight; L. Candee, fireman, Chattanooga,
Tenn, thrown on top of ire-box of train
No. / and contents of fire-box of train No.
2 emptied on him, burning body to crisp;
Lawrence Callan, bsggsgemaster, Ludlow,
KY, body crushed under smoker; w. p.
Powell, express messenger, Madisonvi!le,
Ohio, crushed under wreck; Miss Jessie
Green, skull crushed, died at Green wood.
Among the injured are: Mr.. and Mrs.
Alvey, Covington, KY, scalded and inhaled
steam, will both prCbably die; taken to
Covington Tonight; Sam Shrumm, con-
ductor, internally injured; J. B. Gibson,
Cincinnati. en- route home from Florida,
badly scRlded, face and hands, probably
fatal; Joe Nelsnd, colored porter, No. 2,
liberation of the hip and hands; William
ID. Eichaels, engineer of No. 2, who jumped
from the engine, sprslned ankle, hand
scalded and cheek gashed; Pat Taylor, of
Somerset, KY, engineer o.. No. l, bruised
and suffering from conclusion, badly
hurt; Pat Murphy, Junction City, KY,
fireman of No. l, leg broken below the knee;
w. r. Roberts, Riceville, Tenn, mail ser.
vice, leg and arm broken; W. E. Jackson,
Ludlow, Ky, express messenger, hand,
head back sprsined and Bruised L. Sack
EFT, No. Al Richmond street, Cincinnati,
news agent, head, face, back and legs
bruised; J. G. Burch, Sidney, o., travelling
passenger sgent of the Chicago and Alton
railroad, badly scalded, head and face aud
hands cut; Joe Hepp, Covington, KY,
scalded and bruised; Dick Patton. Lud-
IL a.
f CAMPBELL, Hanoverton, o., scaided face,
neck and hands.
REFUSING INFORMATION.
In addition to the above, train No. 2,
which came north this evening, carried TO
Cincinnati five or six badly injured pas
seDgers. These passengers were in the
boudoir car, and the railroad officials re-
fused 10 allow the Associated Press re-
porter access to them, or to give their
names or injuries.
DR.. Reddish, of Frankfort, in charge ct
the Greenwood coal mines, left Green wood
with the wounded and the body of Miss
Green for Cincinnati. A later train fol-
lowed, carrying all the dead except Miss
Green, who was left at Somerset. Very
shortly after the collision a wrecking train
left Somerset in charge of Superintendent
W. w. Wells, carrying DR.. i. J. o Tens and
all the Somerset physicians, for the scene
of the disaster. Two cars the mail and
baggage, of No. l, took fire and burned up.
Atthe tine of the crash, WithroT and
Jackson were talking in the baggage car,
when the car split open from end to end,
the mail car and smoker shooting over
them, the other cars cutting loose and
dropping back grade. II is reported that
an unknown passenger was crushed and
burned in a water closet of the train of No.
2. Mr.. Alvey, Of CoVington, threw his
wife through the window and jumped out
after her, both rolling down the embank-
ment.
The collision was caused by Conductor
Sbrumm misresding orders delivered 10
him at Winfield. He mistook Su mmit for
Somerset, and hurried his train down the
grade at fifty miles an hour to make the
point, probably running at that rate when
the collision occurred. After the collision,
Conductor Bennett ran up 10 Shrumm and
said: "Tm not to blame for this; read your
orders and see." ShTumm took out his
orders and looking carefully, thew up his
hands, exclaimsng, "Oh, my God, have
made mistake!"
A PASSENGERS STATEMENT.
Sharkey Withers, formerly of this city,
but now of Edwards, Miss, was on the
train going South, and made this state
ment: I'VE left Somerset half an hour late,
and were running about thirty miles an
hour up grade. l was in the coach next
in front Of the sleeper, close to the front
door, when shTill whistling alarmed me.
! ran out on the platform and was pitched
down an embalkmsnt Of fifty fest. ]
Jumped up and went TO work.
We helped to extricate the vic.
tims. 1 helped take out three alive,
two dead; one OF them, Pat Murphy, l
helped to dig ont of the mud into which
ha ua Jar mad raarlv 10 his
The next man we got out was an express
messenger who was crushed under the
trucks; next baggageman who was under
the tender of No. 1. We could hear his
groans, and dug him out. He died in an
hour. Then we got the injured man out
of the mailcar of No. /. Withrov died
in few minutes after he was put on the
relief train"
POSTAL agent james Seyerns, who was APP
pointed one month ago, lay at one end OF
his car, blood streaming from his mouth.
We reached Somerset at 10 p. N. With
rows dead body was laid in the baggage
room and the Injured on our train were
placed in the hotel"
The baggage car sad smoker OF No.
rolled down the embankment. The ladies'
car Of this train was thrown on the engine,
the inmates being thereby scalded. Joe
Hepp stated that young couple that had
got on at Chattanooga were badly cut and
scaIded. The regular passing point of Nos.
1 and 2 is Flat Rock, Just south of the
wreck. The two engines collided with
such force that they were impacted TO-
gether, the boilers SCATTERING and dis
charging all their contents In few min
utes- An attempt to pull the engines
apart tailed, and they were rolled over the
embsnkment to clear the track