The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-27
The Train Heavily Loaded with Grand Army
Veterans and Their Friends, En- Route to
the Milwaukee Encampment.
Three of the Injured Reported to Have
Since Died in the Hospital at StreatOr.
Eleven Men, More or Less, Hurt by Con-
struction Train Leaving the Track-Acci-
dentata Coal Triple Other Casualties.
SERIOUS RAILWAY WRECK.
Vestibule Train Derailed in Illinois and
Fifty Persons Seriously Injured.

vestibule Train Derailed in Illinois and
Fifty Persons Seriously Injured.
STREATOR, ILL.,, Aug. 26.-The vestibule
train on the Santa Fe route, running be-
tween Kansas City and Chicago. met with
a serious accident at Kinsman, a small sta
tion about fifteen miles north of here, at s
o'clock this morning. The train was
heavily loaded with Grand Army veterans
and their friends. bound for the Milwaukee
encampment, and consisted of several
extra coaches By the spreading of the
rails three coaches, two Pullman sleepers
and the dining car were thrown from the
track and down steep embankment, a
distance of probably forty feet. Word
was Immediately telegraphed to this city
for medical assistance, and special train
was sent at once, with dozen surgeons on
board. The wrecker was also sent out to
clear up the track. The most seriously
injured were brought to this city and taken
to st. Mary's Hospital. where their wounds
were properly attended to. In all there
were probably fifty persons hurt, and
though none were killed outright. the fol-
lowing are in a very dangerous condition:
Mrs. s. s. Dickerman, Lawrence, Kan,
chest and head badly cut; little son hurt
about back and face: Lillian Il. Fish, To-
peka. seriously, head injured; Mrs. Fish, To-
peka, head, back and arm; S. +. Gould, Null
vane, Kan, back and face terribly cut; Mrs.
X. X. Tuckerman, Topeka, face badly cut
and internally injured: Mrs. Edward Ands-
ley, lives near CarrOHtOn, Mo-, arm, head
and back badly bruised and lacerated; Mrs
George B. Peters, EmpOria, Kan. head and
face mashed and cut; George Peters. En-
poria, hurt about the chest and face, also
internally injured; Mrs. 5. s. johnson, Nor
folk, Conn.,, badly hurt internally and head
and face cut.
In addition to these, Ben Levy, of Streator.
had his face cut and arm dislocated, but
his injuries are not dangerous. Three of
the injured are reported to have since died.
one of the three being Mrs. George Peters.
of Emporia. Exact information is hard to
obtain, the railroad authorities being ex-
tremely uncommunicative.
The accident was caused by the chair car,
the third behind the engine, jumping from
the track. Itwas ditched instantly, taking
with it three sleepers behind. A rail was
found projecting through the bottom of the
chair car and coming out the side about
three feet from the bottom. a man who
was hunting in q field near by and saw the
accident occur said the chair car jumped
fully ten feet high and landed in the ditch
over one hundred feet from where it left
the track.
The car was full of passengers. every seat
being occupied, and the scene which en-
sued was intensely exciting. Mr.. Robin
son. of Mulvane. Kan, had just passed into
the smoking-roOm of the chair car and
when he felt the jarIe clutched the lamp
and held himself in position, thus escaping
serious injury. He at once commenced to
rescue those who were helpless, but the
sight of the bruised heads. broken limbs,
and streams of blood were too much fol
him, and he had to give up. Others soon
came, however, and the sufferers were re-
lieved as rapidly as possible.
The train was running at a high rate OF
speed. probably sixty miles an hour. The
road-bed where the derailment occurred is
in very poor condition, and probably the
engine and two cars which passed over the
loose rail bent it out of shape so as to cause
it to catch where it did. The chair car and
two of the sieepers are a total loss 1t is be-
lieved that if the train had been of the
ordinary pattern instead of vestibuled the
loss of life would have been at least fifty,