Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-01-12
FORTY DEAD OR MANNED
An Express Train Goes Down
a Sixty Foot Embankment.
A BROKEN RAIL CAUSED THBwRECK

A BROKEN RAIL CAUSED THE WRECK
Two OF the Passengers Were Killed Out
right Many Of the injured WIN Die.
The Accident Occurred I'm Indiana.
Near the Place OF the Recent smashup.
CRAwFoRDsvILLE, Ind, Jan i2.--The fast
nail running between Louisville and Chi
fago on the Monon line, consisting Of q mad
car, an express car, three coaches and
chair car, was wreclSed two miles north Of
here at Nicholson's crossing. The train was
rounding sharp curve when tho outer rail
broke and precipitated the train down an
smbanlment twenty feet steep The stove
in the first coach was overturned, and the
car was soon destroyed, but the passengers
escaped. The next coach was torn to pieces.
It was filed with people, not one Of whom
escaped injury. The parlor car toppled over
on top Of the coaches.
The following, as near as can be learned,
is the list Of the dead and the injured:
The Dead and Injured.
Dead Madame Ivan Rolzey, danseuse Of
the City Burlesque company; Ben Ham
burg, drummer for Lehman g. Schloss
Cincinnati
Injured-Macl Rogers Of the burlesque
company, badly injured in legs and back;
Gus Powers, same company, hurt In back;
Stella Clifton, same company, badly hurt in
legs and back; NJ G. Rutlege, porter OF par
Tor car, face badly bruised; Nellie Hanley,
Of New York city, badly crushed, viii die;
4 Il. IN ...I 4 ~
ids, OF Crawfordsville, cut about the head;
NJ. b. Fox, of New Albany, head and legs
badly crushed; Eugene Dyer, Lafayette,
head cut; c. w. Lowden, Salem, Ind, leg
badly crushed, r. c. Hoyt, head cut; Eva
Marshall, Ellisville, side and head crushed
Mrs Ann Hibbs, Wheatdeld, face crushed; /;
Ezra II. Hibbs Wheatfield, left arm broken
aud right hand cut of; Helen Love, bur
lesque company, injured internally; q. N.
Gardner, Of Ladoga, back slightly injured
and arm sprained.
j. J. Enright Chicago, knee and head
hurt; c. N. Cheek, Greencastle, lumber
merchant, right leg cut of just below the
knee, win die; Dave Malshury Rome, N.
Y, eye gouged out and arm and leg broken
@. ~ Cornwall, roadmnster, Bloomington,
back hurt and internally injured; John
Winchester Louisville, baggagemaster, back
hurt; Express Messenger Cutler, Louisville,
internal injuries; William Snyder, uewsboy,
Chicago, shoulder broken; Cora White, Of
the burlesque company, OF Syracuse, N. Y
slightly injured about the head; Fannie
Everett, Of the hurlesque company, intern
! ally injured; Ollie Lewis, Of the hurlesque
company, bruised about the head; Melvin
Mckee, Chicago, hip and back hurt.
Harry G. Bryant, Of the burlesque com
pany, Philadelphia, head bruised, neck bad
" sprained Madge Larner, Of the Bur
lesque company, Pittsburg, Pa, head badly
bruised; Paul Allen, head crushed; William
Bishop, brakeman, Lafayette, severely
burned about the shoulders; John Bills
conductor, internal injuries; Thomas Mo
naco, opera troupe, internal injuries; Mis-
J Biblo, Crawfordsyille face crushed Ma
Berry Crawfordsville, injured Internal,
and about the face; Miss Breyfogie, hea,
' and face badly bruised; Nat Beatty BIZ
Smith, Dave Jones and John F. Sullivan, o
this city, all bruised
The Wreck Was Complete.
That no others were killed outright seem
marvellous as the wreck was most com
I, plete. A large force Of men was engage'
!, in putting up ice a short distance iron
where the wreck occurred, and they ren
AtAin ENt4 uNtHtthAN' IA EAttAAH NAA NA
: 6res and saving lives c. n. Cheek, 0
|. Greencastle, had a leg cut of and wa
!. pinned beneath a pair Of trucks and j
Il seemed, despite the efforts Of the rescuers
that they could not release him before tn
fire, which was fast approaching, reaches
:. him.
I, He never lost his nerve though sufferin
intensely, and ordered the relief corps b
/, cut off both his legs if that was the onl
way they could release him. A block wa
finally procured from the engine and tia
unfortunate man was released just in th
!, nick Of time. He was removed TO this cit.
but cannot survive the night,
In its leap the leading coach encounters
q stump which penetrated the side Of tn
! car and probably caused the death Of Mime
I Ivan Rokey, OF the Burlesque company, am
OF Ben Hamburg, the Cincinnati drummer
The woman was found by the side Of tn
!, stump, her head crushed out Of all semhlanc
\ to humanity. She was also disemboweled
4 Hamburg was found lying on the Stun
mangled almost beyond recognition.
4 Mr. Breyfogle, ex-president Of the Mono
road, and his wife and son We're on th
= train on their way 20 Lafayette, but all q
!. capped with slight injuries.
= The wrecked train was bound north. Tn
scene of the wreck is less than one half mil
from the place Of the terrible freight co
lison a month ago.