The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-11-29
Frightful Accident at the Mouth of a
Tunnel Near TOledO's Union Depot.
Flint & Pere Marquette Train Crashes Into
the Rear Car of Lake Shore Special that
Had Just Stopped Running.
Four Persons Killed and Sixteen In
jured, Some Probably Fatally.
Bill Nye Hurt by Falling Out the Back Door of
the 0pera-HO at Jackson. Miss
Twenty-Five Laborers Killed.
RUN INTO THE REAR COACH.
Lake Shore Passenger Car Telescoped-For

RUN INTO THE REAR COACH.
Lake Shore Passenger Car Telescoped-Four
Persons Killed and Sixteen Hurt.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
TOLEDO. o., Nov. 2S.-A passenger train
on the Flint & Pere Marquette road crashed
into the rear of the Lake Shore express in
this city, tonight, causing the death or in
jury of score of persons. The collision
occurred about forty rods from the Union
Station, at 5 o'clock, and by IL four dead
and sixteen terribly mangled and scalded
people had been taken from the
wreck. Besides these a CHASTITY hand
without body lies in the su-
perintendent's office in the Union
Depot and nobody without hand has yet
been found. A babe scalded until it was an
unrecognizable mass and several women
whose limbs and features were cooked be-
yond recognition, added to the horrors.
Ambulances and the patrol-wagon con-
veyed the dead and wounded either to St.
Vincent's Hospital or to different houses,
and it was with the greatest difficulty that
names could be obtained. The list of
casualties, as far as could be obtained, is as
follows:
MRS. NJ. ]. MDoNALD. of New York, burned
on the face and hands-not fatally.
INFANT CHILD of Mrs. Mcdonald, eighteen
months old; killed.
son of Mrs. Mcdonald, aged eight years, bad
> MRS. SUSAN MCCOY. dead, She had in her
pocket a card of DIR. Mccoy, Saginaw. Mich, and
two diamond rings.
Cleveland. badly iDiured will probably die.
MRS. NELSON, Toledo, badly scalded.
S. L. WALKER. Goshen. Ind, injured, but left
c. ANDERSON, Riverside. ILL.,, bruised and
D. TAYLOR, HYDE Park. Boston, not fatally.
domen.
WARREN L. POTTER. scalded.
H. VAUGHN, Auburn, n. Y, en- route for
Cambridge. Mass, bruised and scalded.
THOMAS MCQUEEN, Elkhart Ind, will die
JOHN c. CONWAY. bruised.
MISS DOLLIE FISHER, Toledo, severely
MRS. GALLOWAY. Toledo severely bruised.
CONDUCTOR HUNTER, of the Flint & Pere
CHRISTOPHER HENDERSON, Goshen. Ind,
severely burned about the face and hands.
MISS ANNIE MACK, New York city, slightly
burned.
The Pere Marquette train In due In To-
ledo at 4.53. and the Lake Shore follows it
at 4:55 from the ir-line junction. the trains
using the same track. Tonight the Lake
Shore was several minutes late. and the
Pere Marquette train nine minutes late.
The Lake Shore train pulled down
from the junction ahead of the
Marquette, though there was but
little room between them. About
forty rods from the Union Depot is tun-
mel fifty feet long. The Lake Shore had
gone nearly through this with its seven
heavy vestibuleG parlor cars and the day
coach on the rear, when q freight ahead
made it pull up. The brakeman ran
back to give the signal to the
Pere Marquette engineer, but it was too
late. The trains were too close. The fire.
man and engineer of the oncoming train
the dImly lighted tunnel into the rear of
the Boston and Chicago special.
The steam escaping in volumes hid the
wreck from the view of the big crowd
which had run out of the stores and houses
on the high bank, along which ran the
street above Miss Dolly Fisher, the
daughter of Health Officer Fisher, mad
dened by the pain of the scald-
ing steam. leaped from the win
dow AID was cut and slightly bruised
Help came Immediately and the
wounded were drawn out. One man, War
rem L. Potter. himself slightly scalded. at
tempted to pull Mrs. Mccoy from the car,
and the flesh came off in great shreds from
the woman's arms. The baby of Mrs. Nc
Donald was scalded to death and taken out
of the smashed car a cooked and blistcred
mass of flesh. almost bey ond recognition as
q human form.
CHASTITY hand was found after the
wreck Lad been cleared away and the
wrecked car taken off. but no body has
been found without hand. At
IL o'clock another search was COM
menced to find the body to which the
hand belonged. There was no fire and
steam. Mrs. Mcdonald and her two chill
dren occupied seats near the rear of the
coach, and the babe was tOddlIng along the
aisles when the accident occurred, accord
ing 10 one of the eye-witnesses.
BY 9 p. VI. all the debris had been cleared
away. and the trains began running again
as usual. No one was hurt on the Mar
quette train. The car entirely enveloped
the engine as far as the cab the two being
wedged closely together. No one In either
train was hurt, save those in the wrecked
day coach, and the conductor of the Flint
& Pere Marquette train.
The Lake Shore officials are inclined to
put the blame on the Flint ~ Pere Mar
quette train. The engineer of that train is
q new man and it was his first run over the
road. An investigation will be made at
once to the cause of the wreck, and the
Lake Shore officials will see if 1t is not DOS
sible to make the Pere Marquette people