Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-01-14
STILL ANOTHER.
A Fast Express Train Hurled Down an I'm.
bankmcnt la Indiana-TwO Killed and
Many Injured.


A FAST Express. Train Hurled Down an Elm.
bankmcnt Ia Indiana Two Killed and
Many Injured.
CRAwFoRDsvnLE, Ind, Jan. ~ BE.
tween and o'clock yesterday after
noon the north bound Monon train ran
off the track about two miles north OF
here at Nicholson crossing and four
cars rolled down fifty foot embanlS.
ment, the engine and one baggage ear
keeping the track. The trouble is sup
posed TO he due 10 broken rail The
first passenger coach rolled over three
times. II was full Of passengers, aud
cupants escaped alive. The express
car went over, but no one In IL was
severely hurt The ladies' coach was
literally torn 70 pieces, as was also the
parlor car. Here was the greatest
damage Theirs was hardly passen-
ger on the train who escaped injury.
Help was soon at han and in few
moments the road was full of the
maimed On their way 10 town.
The following were killed:
Ben Hamburg Cincinnati a travel
ing man, and Madame Eina Van Rokey,
Of the City Club Opera Co
THE INJURED.
The injured OF the City Club" Co.
are:
Mack Rogers, badly hurt in leg and
back.
Gus Rogers, back injured
Stella Clifton, legs and back hurt
Helen Love, internally injured.
Cora White, Syracuse, n. Y, slightly
injured about the head
Fannie Everett, st. Louis, internally
injured
OLA Lewi', bruised about head.
Henry C. Bryant, Philadelphia, back
sprained and head hurt
Madgc Barner Pittsburgh, head
bruised
The other injured are:
NJ G.. Rutledge, porter chair car, face
mashed
C. n. Cornwell, roadmaster, internal
injuries
John Winshecter, Louisville, bag
gagemaster, injured about shoulders
and back.
lie 7rge Cutter, express messenger,
Louisville, internal injuries
w. NJ. Snyder, newsboy, Chicago,
shoulder broken.
William Bishop brakeman, Lafayette,
Ind. severely burned
Joha Bills, conductor, hurt internally.
Nellie Hanley, crushed; will die.
Ezra Hibbs, Wheatdeld, left arm
broken, right hand cut of.
Mrs. Ann Ilibbs, Wheatfield, face
mashed.
DR.. +. whitesidfs, spine seriously
fractured.
Dave Malsbury, Romney, eye gouged
out, arm and leg broken,
C. y. Creek, Qreencastle, right leg cut
off below the Inee.
- Fox, Hew Albany, head cut and
leg mashed
Paul AllSn. head crushed.
ThomayMonase Of the opera troupe,
hurt internally.
G. f. Aoyt, side and back and head
badly Injured
cru.,st
Eva Marshall, Ellettsville, side and
face crushed
j. J. Enright, Chicago, knee and head
hurt
Melvin Mckee, Chicago, head hip
aud bac.S injured
Ofth.s city there were also eight per-
sons IN ured. bat none seriously.
Rescuers are now searching for the
body Il lit e girl supposed to be
buried the debris,
The cause was the breaking OF a rail.
The piece broken q II was eight feet
long. The locomotive and baggage
cars moved it out Of position and es-
caped.
The mail and express made header
down the steep fiji, which was ninety
feethi- h, and stopped right side up,
resting "a ,hc sleeper. The smoker,
the ladi ; coach and the Pullman chair
car went over and over sidewise and
stopped 100 feet from the track
Forty pa, sengers were in the smoker
and it 1ok fire and burned up One
end OF the Pullman fell on the ladies'
car, a. which were the City Club
opera Co Then the trucks came
-ollmg down the steep slope. One
truck the Pullman and smashed il and
another crashed through the ladies' car.
Fifty mcn cutting ice few feet away
rushed 20 the rescue and prevented a
l1locuust They got every body out OF
tie ear aud saved those at the smoker
rom ire The train was running
thirty ! lies an hour when the accident
happen,