The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-01-31
THE M0NON WRECK.
Seven Persons Now Known to
Have Lost Their Lives.
SIX WE'RE BURNED IN THE wReckAee.

ing Cars-Awful Trial of Mother, Who
Sees Her Two Babes Perish I'm the Flames
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 2S-The accident on
Che l.. N. A. & G. railway near Carmel Mon
day resulted in the death of seven persons,
| six of whom were burned to death while
pinioned in the wreck The names of the
dead are given as follows: Mrs. Nellie Eu-
bank, Broad Ripple, burned to death; 80
years DID, c. o. Deming, Frankfort City,
skull crushed; IS years old; died after res
cue; Mrs Olivia Oldham's two twin girls, Q
| years old; Sheridan, burned to death; Mrs.
Mary Hoover, Horton, Ind, "a years DID,
crushed to death; Mrs. Hattie Hensley, Cy-
clone; crushed and burned
The injured are: Engineer Wendell
Swope, slightly hurt; A. L. Clark, travelling
man, Of Westfield, cut in forehead; Henry
Slusher, jeweler, of Indianapolis, cut on
| head and right leg fractured; Otto Ores
ham, son of Judge Gresham, of Indian
apoiis, body cut and bruised, not seriously
| hurt; Abe Angle, conductor, cut ON head,
injured internally: Charles Angle, son of the
conductor badly cut on leg and forehead in
jured internally; b. G. Whitsett, of In
dianapolis cut OH the head and body badly
bruised; Julius ID. Pearson, of Sheridan,
Ind, travels for Frankling MacVeagh &
Co., of Chicago, badly cut on head and in
jured internally; S. w. Single, of Ross
vile, Ind, right arm broken and body
bruised; Lewis Nauman, of Cleveland, COM
mercial traveller right leg injured, head, face,
and arms considerably burned; Henry Miller,
Of New York, travelling man, hurt about
the head and large cash in region of each
temple, fears of internal injuries, supposed
to be fatally hurt; at ST. Vincents hospital;
Express Messenger Munger, of indianapolis,
injured internally by the safe falling on
him; Henry Clarke, of Eagletown, Ind,
badly bruised about the head and face;
Horace Carey, of Westfeld, spinal injuries;
f. jackson, colored porter Pullman car, in
jured about head and hips; N. B. Ingersoll,
of Detroit, head and face bruised; George
Good, of Frankfort, Ind, side hurt; -
Cowles, travelling salesman, brother of
j. E. Cowles of Chicago, collar-bone broken
and scalp cut; Miss May Fitzpatrick, of In
dianapolis, spinal injuries and head cut,
condition serious; George Miller, of Ter
hume, Ind, leg hurt, but not badly; Mrs.
Ella Douglass, of Frankfort Ind, injured
internally, condition unknown; j. p. Al
teizer, of Chicago, shoulder bruised and
otherwise slightly injured; Charles J. Writ,
Frankfort, severely bruised; George s. Bige-
low, Chicago leg strained; w. s. Halliday,
Boston, travels for 'Stoughton Rubber COM
pany side, back and arm injured; ID. III.
Justus, baggagemaster, slightly injured
senger agent of the road, forehead cut and
back hurt; Will H. Marker, travelling man
for Lord g. Thomas, Chicago, slight cut and
bruises; Michael Fitzsimmons, brakeman of
the train, head cut
The Work of Rescue.
The work of rescue was begun with oil
possible dispatch Charred bodies were car
ried out to the bank of the stream, recalling
the awful wreck at Broad Ripple, on the
same road, four years ago, when the bridge
over White river gave way and the train
was thrown to the bed of the stream and
burned, together with many persons. The
north bound passenger train leaving this city
at 1880 Monday morning reached the scene
of the wreck about o'clock and was at once
converted into relief train. Meantime
most terrifying reports were in circulation
in this city, among them being one to the eff
feet that M. E. Ingalls,, president Of the Big
Four railroad, was among the injured. This
was, of course, improbable, inasmuch as Mr..
Ingalls, was in Richmond, Va, Saturday.
Probably the injury of Abe Angle, conduct
or and the similarity in names were respon-
sble for the mistake.
How the Wreck Occurred.
The disaster occurred thus: The engine,
baggage car, and smoker passed over the
trestle in safety, although the rear truck of
the tender had jumped the track before the
trestle was reached. The roadmaster of the
Monon says this derailed truck was the cause
of the disaster. When the ladies' day coach
reached the center of the bridge it fell
through with a crash to the depths below
The wreck thus created took fire from the
stove and that car was entirely consumed.
1t was in this coach that all the casualties
occurred. The sleeper, rear car, also fell
from the bridge into the creek, but FORUM
ately did not take fire.
The Story as Told by Passenger.
w. j. Collins, passenger, said: "The first
intimation of anything unusual was a sway
ing of the cars, followed by the front end Of
the sleeper going over the enbankment.
There was a crash and shock that threw
the passengers from one end of the car to the
other and demolished everything in the car
A man kicked out window, through which
a number made their exit; others, seeing that
there was no immediate danger to those in
the sleeper, dressed themselves and then
sought the open air. On emerging from the
sleeper it was discovered that the coach inn
mediately in front had been badly wrecked,
because in leaving the bridge the front ends
struck the embankment approach, COM
pletely demolishing that end of the car
and overturning the stove, in which
brisk fire was burning. The car
Immediately took fire, the flames
spreading with great rapdity, and in a mo-
ment enveloping the entire structure. The
first persons taken out were two ladies, both
dead; then Mrs. Oldham and her little boy of
Sheridan Two other children of this lady
were still i'm the car and the mother, noting
this fact and although badly injured, made
desperate effort to return the now buring
coach Being dissuaded in this she appealed
to the bystanders to rescue her boys. Every
one who could worked with will, but eff
forts proved futile, as the flames spread so
rapidly that the work had to be abandoned
In a few minutes There was a scene of the
widest confusion. The deck Of the bridge
was completely demolished, the ties dis
placed, rails bent and twisted, and piles
splintered and broken off, and all the cars
so badly wrecked that no parts of them can