St. Paul daily globe., 1892-01-12
C0FFINED In COACHES
Travellers Meet With a Horri-
flying Accident On an In
diana Road.
TWO Killed Outright, and of
Two Score Injured Many
viii Die.
Limbs Cut Off, Eyes Gouged
Out, Limbs Broken and
Mashed.
Cars Literally Torn to Splin-
ters--Appalling Scenes at
the Wreck.

CRAwFoRDsvILLE, Ind, Jan. IL
Between and o'clock this afternoon
the nOrth-bound Monon train ran off the
track about two miles north of here at
Nicholson Crossing. The accident oc-
Cured on fifty-foOt embankment,
down which four cars rolled, the engine
and one baggage car keeping the track.
The trouble is supposed TO be due to
broken rail. The first passenger coach
rolled over three times. II was full of
passengers and caught fire from the
stove, but all occupants escaped alive.
The baggage and 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
passenger on the train who escaped
injury. Help was soon at hand. and i'll
few moments the road was full OF
manned on their way to town. There
were three theatrical troupS on board,
one of which. the City Club Burlesque
company, was completely broken up,
nearly every member sustaining serious
Injuries.
Allied and Injured.
BES. HAnBuRG, Cincinnati, travelling
man. dead.
Mime. ElNA VAN RoKEY, Of the City Club
company. dead.
The injured OF the City Cub company are:
Mack Rogers. badly hurt II The legs and
back
Gus Rogers back injured
Stella Clifton. legs ana back hurt.
Helen Love, internally injured.
Cora White, Syracuse, Y. Y. injured about
the head.
Fanny Everett, st. Louis, internally in
iured.
Ola Lewis, bruised about head.
Harry c. Bryant Philadelphia. back
sprained and head hurt
Biadge Larner. Pitlsburg. head bruised.
NJ. g. Rutedge, porter. chair car, face
slashed.
c. \ CornwelI, roadmaster, Internal in
juries.
John Winchester Loisville. baggagemaster,
injured about shoulder and back.
George Cutter, express messenger, Louis
vile. internal mi juries-
William Snyder. newsboy, Chicago, shoul-
der broken
William bishop. brakema n. Lafayette, Sc
verely burned.
John Bills. conductor. hurt Internally.
Nellie Ranley, crushed. viii die.
Ezra Wibbs, Whealheld, left arm broken
right hand cut Off
Mrs. Ann Hibbs. Wheetiield, face mashed
DR.. Z. Whitesides, Romney, eye gouged
out arm and leg broken.
c. y, Cheek, Greencastle, right leg cut off
below the knee.
= Fox, New Albany. head cut and leg
mashed.
Paul Allen. head crushed.
Thomas Monaco, of the opera troupe, hurt
internally.
G. F. Hoyt, side and back and head badly
G. W. Loevden, Salem. leg badly crushed.
Eva Marshall. Eiettsyiile, side and face
crushed
j. j. Enwright, Chicago. knee and head
hurt
Melvin Mckee, Chicago head. hip and
back injured. but not fatal.
OF this city there were injured: John
Foust, William Hall, j. NJ. Davidson Matt
Beatty, Mrs. Breyfogle, VIII Smith, Dave
Jones, j. T. sullivan.
a number of those hurt lie here in
the city and several will probably die
The excitement has been intense and
hundreds have visited the scene of the
accident. 1t was one of the most terri
bic cataStrophieS that ever occurred on
the road. The postal car went over,
cut. are not seriously hurt.
The scenes about the wreck were
heaItrendlng. Rescuers are nov search
ing for the body of little girl sup
posed to be buried In the debris.
That no others were killed outright
seems marvellous, as the wreck was most
complete.
A Hero Pinned Down.
a large force of men was engaged IN
putting up ice a short distance from
where the wreck occurred and thew
rendered good assistance in putting
out the fires and saving lives. G.
n. Cheek, of Greencastle. had q leg
pulled off and was pinned beneath
a pair of trucks, and 1t seemed. despite
efforts of The rescuers, that they could
not release him before the fire, which
was fast approaching him, reached
him. He never lost his nerve, though
suffering intensely, and ordered the re-
lief corps to cut off both of his legs if
could release him. him. A a. block
was finally procured from the
engine and the unfortunate man
was released just in the nick Or time.
He was removed to the city, but cannot
survive the night. In its leap the ladies'
coach encountered stump. which
penetrated the side of the car and pos
Sibly caused the death of Madame Van
Rokey and Ben Hamburg, the Cincir-
natl drummer.
The woman was found lying by the
side of z stump, her head crushed out of
all Semblance to humanity. She was
also disembOweled. Ben Hamburg was
found lying on the stump mangled al
most beyond recognition. The scene of
the wreck is less than ten miles of the
place of the terrible freight collision of
a month ago.
A BANK LOOTED.