The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-16
| They Were Riding on Locomotive When 1t
Left the Track and Plunged Into Round
House, Burying Them and the Engineer.
Three Victims of the B. & 0. Accident
Dead and Others Fatally Mangled.
Ten Employees of New Hampshire Factory
Terribly Injured BY the Bursting Of o
y-Wheel-0ther Casualties.
FATAL RIDE ON AN ENGINE.
Three Chicago Reporters and an Engines
Killed I'm an Accident at Crete, Ill.

Three Chicago Reporters and an Engineer
Killed In an Accident at Crete, Ill.
CHICAGO, Oct. 15.-A horrible accident.
resulting In the death of three members of
the Inter Ocean staff. and tho serious in
jury of several other passengers, occurred
on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad
this morning, about IL o'clock, ut Crete. Ill.
The dead are:
LEONARD wAsHBURNE. sporting reporter
FRED ". HENRY. n reporter who came here
recently from Louisville.
j. a. MCAFFERTY, an artist. recently from
JAMES CLARK, engineer.
The train left Evansville early this
morning and proceeded safely to Crete.
where it ran into an open switch. The
three reporters who were killed were on
the engine Henry McAfferty having gone
out for the purpose of writing mp and illus
Jrating midnight ride on the fast train,
and Washburne. who was returning to Chi
cago from an Indiana trip, having joined
his friends on the engine. The accident
came without warning. and. as the loco
motive plunged from tho track, the four
men were caught aud completely buried
beneath the wreck.
Instructions were sent from Chicago to
have the bodies shipped to this city i'm.
mediately. Immediately upon the receipt
of a telegram telling of the accident, Presi-
dent &. w. Saul. of the Chicago e. Eastern
Illinois railroad, started with a spe-
ciaI train for tho scene of the
wreck Medical aid accompanied the
president and everything possible
was done for the injured. The engine and
baggage car were destroyed. Two passen-
ger coaches and the sleeper were more or
less damaged. The round-house at the
switch was destroyed and fell upon the
wrecked engine. which had plunged into
it. Fireman Lafferty jumped from the
engine and is slightly injured about the
breast and stomach.
ARRIVAL OF THE REMAINS.
Tonight sad scene was witnessed ct the
Chicago depot of the Eastern Illinois road.
The man gled corpses of the trio Of news
paper men were being patiently awaited
by large number of their CO. o-workers. Mr..
ii. ii. Kohlsaat. one Of the proprietors of
the Inter Oceag, was al1ong those present.
When at last the train bearing the bodies
arrived, all silently lent assistance in re-
moving the remains to an undertaker's.
Friends of the dead in other cities were
telegraphed to by city editor Ballard and
every thing possible done, pending instruc-
tions from relatives. At the Inter Ocean
office tonight conversation seemed some
how restricted to nosyllsbles, and the
lights at three of the desks were out.
Leonard ID. Washburn was the sporting
editor of the Inter Ocean. He was espe-
cially we'll known in base-ba circles. He
travelled with the Chicago club in their
Journeys, and his articles attracted wide
spread attention. His homo was at Clin-
ton. Ind.
McAtferty came to Chicago about two
weeks ago from st. Louis, where he had
been employed on the Post-Dispatoh for a
number of years. Previous to going to st.
Louis he worked on the Philadelphia Press.
Fred Henry was thlrty-seven years old.
and had been employed on the Inter Ocean
for about two weekS, having como here
from Louisville.
MIR. Washburn was to have been best
man tonight ut the wedding of one of his
associates, Mr. Thomas X. Weddell. assist
ant city editor of the Inter Ocean. The
news of his tragic end was kept from MIR.
Weddell and his BRIDE and the ceremony
took place shortly after poor Washburn's
body reached the city.
Washburne known In Indiana