Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-01-23
TRAIN WRECKED.
a Fast Express Train Goes Over
An E'mbanment.
Two Passengers Killed and Many Others
Seriously Injured - Hardly Pas.
senger Escaped-A Broken Rail
the Cause.-The Victims

D0OKef E8c8peO-A orOk0n hoAA
the Cause.-The Victims
Another Bad Wreck.
CRAwFoRDsvnLE, Ind.,- Jan. 1a-Be
tween and o'clock yesterday after
noon the north bound Monon train raj
of the track about two miles north OF
here at Nicholson crossing and foul
cars rolled down a fifty foot embank
ment, the engine andfone baggage cal
keeping the track. The trouble is sup
posed to be due to broken rail The
first passenger coach rolled over three
times. It was full of passengers, and
caught fire from the stove, but all oc
cupants escaped alive. The express
car went over, but no one in it was
severely hurt The ladies' coach was
literally torn to pieces. as was also the
parlor car. Here was the greatest
damage There was hardly passen.
ger on the train who escaped injury.
Help was soon at hand aud in few
moments the road was full of the
manned on their way to town
The following were killed:
Ben Hamburg, Cincinnati, travel
ing man, and Madame Eina Van Rokey,
of the ''City Club Opera Co.
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 Lewis, bruised about head.
Henry C. Bryant, Philadelphia, back
sprained and head hurt.
Madge Barner, Pittsburgh, head
bruised
The other injured are:
M. G. Rutledge, porter chair car, face
mashed.
C. N Cornwell, roadmaster, internal
injuries
John Winshecter, Louisville, bag
gagemaster, injured about shoulders
and back.
George Cutter, express messenger,
Louisville, internal injuries.
w. M. Snyder, newsboy, Chicago,
shoulder broken.
William Bishop, brakeman, Lafayette,
Ind. severely burned.
John Bills, conductor, hurt internally.
Nellie Hanley, crushed; will die.
Ezra Hibbs, Wheatfeld, left arm
broken. right hand cut off.
Mrs. Ann Hibbs, Wheatfeld, face
DR.. E. whitesides, spine seriously
fractured.
Dave Malsbury, Romney, eye gouged
out, arm and leg broken.
C. N. Creek, Greencastle, right leg cut
off below the knee.
- Fox, New Albany, head cut and
leg mashed.
Paul Allen, head crushed.
Thomas Monase of the opera troupe,
hurt internally.
c. F. Hoyt, side and back and head
badly injured.
C. w. Loeveden, Salem, leg badly
crushed.
Eva Marshall Ellettsville, side and
face crushed.
]. ]. Enright, Chicago, knee and head
hurt.
Melvin Mckee, Chicago. head, hip
and back injured.
OF this city there were also eight per-
sons injured, but none seriously.
Rescuers are now searching for the
body of little girl supposed to be
buried in the debris.
The cause was the breaking of rail
The piece broken eff was eight feet
long. The locomotive and baggage
cars moved it out of position and es-
capped.
The mail and express made header
down the steep fill, which was ninety
feet high, and stopped right side up,
resting on the sleeper. The smoker,
the ladies' coach and the Pullman chair
car went over and over sidewise and
stopped 100 feet from the track.
Forty passengers were in the smoker
and it took fire and burned up. One
end of the Pullman fell on the ladies'
car, in which were the ''City Club
Opera Co Then the trucks came
rolling down the steep slope. One
struck the Pullman and smashed it and
another crashed through the ladies' car.
Fifty men cutting ice few feet away
rushed to the rescue and prevented
holocaust They got every body out of
the cars and saved those at the smoker
from fire. The train was running
thirty miles an hour when the accident
happened.
jackson Day.
: NEwYoRK, Jan. 10-The seventy sew
enth anniversary of the battle of New
Orleans, which brought to a close the
war of 1919 and mas Can Iaclrson,s