The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-04
A DRIVING ROD BREAKS
Hurting Four People Down
to Their Death.
Many Others Are Manqled
and Crushed.
Terrible Accident on the
Panhandle Road.
Prominent Richmond PeO-
pie the Victims.
Three OF the Dead Employed
by the Railroad.
Great Eek citementin Richmond
over the Disaster.
The Work OF Rescue and Relief
Prompt and Effective.
Prominent Richmond PeO-
pie the Victims.
Three OF the Dead Employed
by the Railroad.
Great Ex element in Richmond
Over the Disaster.
The Work ofRescue and Relief
Prompt and Effective.
Cause OF the Accident-The Killed and
Injured.

R1cHMoYp, Feb. 25.-[Special.] -Hagers-
town, a village sixteen miles west OF
this city on the Logansport division of
the Panhandle, was this afternoon the
scene OF a most frightful wreck resulting
in the death of four persons, two more
being probably fatally injured and twenty
more others more or less severely hurt
as follows:
CHARLES B. CASE, conductor. LOgans
o. F. DEAL. engineer for the maintenance
Of way p C., G., G. & 81, l. railway, Rich
mond. Ind.
s. q. NEEDHAM, claim agent T.. c., C., c.
& ST. L. railway. Richmond.
ARTHUR NJ. REEVES. banker. Richmond.
PROBABLY FATALLY HURT.
MRs. GEoRE McGREw. Richmond. cut about
head and body and severely bruised and
thought to be injured internally.
Mrs. J. c. BUsIM, Sacramento City. out over
left ear and serious confusion OF chest
OTHERS INJURED.
NJ. HIP, 427 ". Front-st.. Cinci matt. head
sud arms praised and hurt.
q. w. WEBSTER, Newport, ny, porter Pull
man car, "Eugenia," left ankle dislocated and
cus on forehead.
- sTAxT. Chicago, grandchild Of Mrs.
McGrew BADLY injured.
JOHN W. EDWARDS, Richmond, Ind, hurt
about the head.
WILEY STExSBERsER, Westville. o.. cut on
FRANK ". EDDY. west6sld, Mass. back
badly sDrained.
Miss RoTH, Dayton, o., right hand cut
Mrs. C. r. DUDLEY. Dayton, o., sister of
above, severe confusion OF right side.
Nd. and Mrs. MAY BENSON, Logansport.
Ind. badly bruised.
HERBERT and EARL BENSON, children OF
above, badly bruised.
Mrs. ANNA ESGLEBREcHT. Logansport,
Ind, and three children, bruised; not serious
HESRY c. Fox. Richmond, Ind, severe
scalp wound and confusion of spine.
ASA KELLEY. Richmond, bad cut over left
eye.
wv. GuP1S, 251 W. Fourth-st, Philadel-
phia, Pa, cut on left forearm and internally
injured.
JOHN CROKER. Chicago. confusion of back
and face.
CHARLES PAGE, Richmond. cut on head
and injured about hips
6. II. EDNoNDs, Troy, o.. cut on head and
finger broken.
Mrs. SUSAN UTABAUeH, Trenton. No.. both
OPHA EVANS, New Castle. Ind. confusion
of right arm
DORA CLARKE. Newcastle. confusion of
head.
CLIFTON IRWIN. Martins Ferry. o.. right
foot hurt.
J. P. STANGA, Eaton. o., right cheek bone
broken and left arm badly bruised.
=. ". KRAMER, brakeman. Logansport con-
fusion Of left arm, left leg bruised and severe
HARRIET s. LOMBARD, Amherst, Wis, Sc
we're confusion back of head.
JAMES T. BOoIEs, Richmond, Ind, very Sc
we're confusion of left side OF head and ear.
Bob HoDGIS, road foreman of engines, hand
scalded, abrasion of right leg.
How IL Occurred.
The train wrecked was No. Is, known as
the Cincinnati express, due in this city at
AIS p. m. II was hauled by engine 494,
in charge of w. W. Bartlett, engineer, and
Noah Dunn, fireman. The train does not
stop at Hagerstown and at 1851 o'clock
was coming around the curve at the
Hagerstown station at the rate OF fifty
miles en- hour, when the framework of
the engine broke, derailing every car of
the train.
The train, however. held together until
past the station and to the canal bridge. a
short distance beyond, where there is a
fifteen-foot einbankment Here the smoker
turned over, followed by the day coach
and parlor car ''Eugenia" which, in its de-
scent, turned completely over twice and
IN the smoking compartment of which
were all the killed.
The last two cars held together in their
descent but broke away from the smoker
Meanwhile, the derailed baggage car
held to the engine until some distance
further on, where it struck the guard of a
waRon-road crossing, again mounted the
track and escaped with scarcely an injury.
The engine, however, was nearly as COM
piete a wreck as the day and parlor
coaches, which, after rolling down the
embankment, caught fire, but, luckily,
the IRE was extinguished without serious
damage.
In leaving the track the cars tore down
the telegraph poles, rendering it impossi-
bic 70 get accurate news of the accident
until the trains bearing the dead and in
jured reached this city at $50 O'Clock.
Immediately after the accident wreck
and relief train bearing the company's
physicians, Drs. Weist and Bond. followed
shortly after by a special train bearing
Coroner Zimmerman ard friends OF some
of the killed and injured, leftfor the scene
of the wreck
A Pitifai Scene.
The scenes about the wreck were most
heartrending, the cries Of the unfortunate