Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-01-14
DOWN A BANK.
Awful Plunge of a Train on the
Monon Route.
A Terrible Accident Near Crawfords-
vile, Ind, in Which Three Per-
sons Lose Their Lives.
MANY BADLY HURT.

MANY BADLY HURT.
CRAwFoRDsvILLE. Ind, Jan. 10
The north bound mail train on the
Monon road, en- route from Louisville
to Chicago, went over a steep 6O-foot
embankment . miles north of Craw-
louisville Monday afternoon at 3
o'clock. The accident occurred on a
curve, were the train was running at
rate of % miles an hour, and was due
to a loose rail, two section hands
being at work on it at the same time.
Broken Into Bits.
The engine and two baggage cars re-
manned on the embankment, the mail,
the smoker, the ladies' car and the
Rarlor car Minerva" going over and
tearing themselves to pieces in the mad
rush among the stumps, powders and
trees. The cars fortunately separated
as they rolled down the embankment
and were broken to pieces at different
points. The smoker and ladies' car
took fire and baby belonging to a
woman in the City Club Vaudeville
Burlesque Company of New York is
said to have been burned
Horrible Scenes.
The ladies' car rolled over three
times, and in this the slaughter was
done. At one of its turns a large
stump was struck, and this, crash
ing through the car, disem-
boweled Ben Hamburg and Nine
Van Rokay, passengers. AS soon
as the wreck occurred Engineer
James Doyles ran back to Craw-
louisville and announced the catas-
trophe. Hundreds of citizens were
soon upon the scene, lending every as
sistance to the wounded Nearly
every one on the train was more or
less injured and several are reported
dying.
The scenes at the wreck were terri
BILE. Bleeding and senseless bodies
were being carried from the burning
cars and frenzied men and women
rushed frantically to and fro looking
for mi sing friends and relatives.
Words Nould be bat barren sounds to
describe the horror, and it is best told
in the following list of killed and
wounded
int hiiieus
Nellie Hauleo, Of New York, smemner Of the
City Buriesque Company; Ben Hamburg
OF Cincinnati, drummer horribly mangled;
Nine Erina Van RolSay, dauseuse, City Bur
lesque Company, horribly manged.
All We re Injured.
Mrs Robert Fulton, stage name Stella Clifton.
Of the buresque company, spine fractured, legs
mutilated, dying; Mack Rogers, badly injured
in legs and back; Gus Rogers hurt in the back;
Cora White, OF Syracuse ear torn OF and side
badly crushed: Fannie Everett St Louis, in
ternally injured and bruised; Olive Lewis,
bruised about head; Helen Love spinal in.
tries; Harry c. Bryant Of Philadelphia head
bruised, back badly sprained; Madge LArned,
Pittsburgh, head badly hurt; Miss Lasaner,
arm and side injured; Miss Reynolds, leg
Hroh y Curtis Speck, fingers cut OFF, Paul
Aliens lead crushed Thomas Maico, internal
injuries. The above are all members of the
City Burlesque Company
Other Victims.
c. n Cheek. Greencastle, Ind; Mrs Rosa
Evans, Greencaste, Ind, head and side
crushed Mrs D. I3reyfoele, of Louisville, face
2aashed William Bishop brakeman from
faYette, severely burned about the
mead, shoulders and back; John Bills,
internal injarieS Melvin Mckee
of Chicago, hip and back hurt:
f. Whi;esides, spine fractured very serious;
j. }. Ehrlght, of Chicago knee and head hurt:
Nat Beatty, of Charlottesville, internally in
lured; John Fousu and William Hall, Of Craw-
cut about the head: Mr.. Fox, Of |
New Albany, two gashes in head and leg badly |
cut; Eugene Dyer Of Lafayette head cut: G. /
W Loden. Of Salem, Ind, badly crushed G r. /
Hoyt of indianapolis, head, side and back; Eva /
Marshall, OF Ellettsville, side and face /
crushed; Mrs Ann Hibbs, Wheatheld, face T
mashed Ira Hibbs, same address, left arm /
ria
Wheattield, side mashed; Charles Thompson |
yreston, head bruised NJ. G. Rutledge. porter
IF chair car, face mashed; Dave Mnlsbury. I
Romney, eye gouged cut and arm and leg
broken; c. f. Cornwel, roadmaster, Blooming
on, back hurt and internal injuries; John 1
Winchester, Louisville, baggagemaster back
1urt Express Messenger Cutler, Louisville in
ernal injuries: w N. Snyder, newsboy, Chi
ago. shoulder broken.
"Chop or My Leg"
Two mangled corpses were taken out
whose identity could scarcely be ascer-
aimed One poor mangled fellow was
ound pinned down under a pair of
rucks with both limbs mashed IF
he flames are going to reach me chop
IF my leg with the ak, he said coolly
md calmly. He was rescued from his
,eril
In Entire Block Burned at Muskegon.
MUSHROOM, Mich, Jan. l3.-Fire
broke out in the Dennis Snith block
IN Western avenue early Monday
morning and almost entirely destroyed
he block. The loss on the building
md stocks of goods, together with
amage of adjoining property, amounts