The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-21

Powell's body embalmed and forwarded,
and that the interment will occur at
New Vienna, tomorrow, under Masonic
auspices.
From the Cincinnati dailies Of Wed.
nesday, we CLEAN the following partic.
ulars:
The g. @. c. & st. L. Road uses the
tracks of the Central between Kankakee
and Chicago, the travel on both roads
has increased tremendously since the
opening of the Fair, and passenger
trains follow each other in very short
succession. On the evening in question
Train No. 45, of the g. G. O. and st. L.,
left Chicago in two sections.
First section of Big Four Train No.
As, drawn by engine 935, Sam Phillips
engineer, and Conductor Tyner pulled
out OF the Illinois Central Passenger
Station at Twelfth street, at $40 p. M,
having train consisting of mail, two
baggage cars, smoker, two day coaches,
two Pullman sleepers and a "deadhead"
coach in the rear. This train was fol.
lowed two minutes later by its second
section, drawn by engine No. $50, Engi
neer Charley Ames, Conductor Tom
Eden, and followed them closely all the
way down to the scene of the catastro.
phe.
The train register at Chicago bears q
notice to all passenger trainmen that
there is no water at Kankakee Station I;
hence it became necessary for Engine
935 To stop at the water tank just south
of Manteno to take supply. To this
stop is directly attributed the calamity
of last night. AS the first section haul.
ed up at the water tank, Conductor
Tyner Immediately sent his brakeman
back with red light to flag the second
section, knowing that they were follow.
ing him closely, but before the fagman
had got back hundred yards the sec.
ond section could be heard rapidly ap.
preaching, though hidden behind a
curve in the track, where signal could
not be seen.
An instant later it dashed rapidly into
view, and seeing the frantic signals Of
the fagmap from the first section, en-
gineer Ames reversed his engine and
applied the air brake. But, at the high
speed, this did not Immediately check
its rate, and an instant later the engine
crashed into the rear of the forward sec
tion. The wrecked rear car fell back or
the locomotive. The sleeper crushed
into the crowded day coach ahead, ant
the engine plowed it's dreadful way lit
orally through the bodies of sleeping
men and women.
The passengers in the rear train es
capped with nothing more than a slight
shaking up. Many of them dressed anG
hurried forward to assist in the work O
recuing the unfortunates who were still
pinioned in the wreck.
The crash of the collision was plainly
heard in Manteno and in few minutes
the residents of that village were upoI
the scene in force. Houses near tn,
spot were hastily thrown open and eacl
became an improvised hospital. Loca
surgeons from Kankakee were hastily
summoned and several of them, to
gether with other residents, OF Kanka
kee, fastened to Manteno.
Capt. Geo. W. Schachleiter, of Ironton
says:
When the train left Chicago ther
were but few people in the sleeping ca
and coach Immediately ahead, and ther
was some talk of cutting them off a
Grand Crossing. At Sixty third street
near the Worlds Fair grounds, abou
thirty people got aboard of the trair
and most of them went into the coac
next to the Pullman car. He was in tn
car Immediately forward of the ill-fate
coach in question, and occupied ses
about three rows from the end.
Mr.. Schachleiter noticed that most
the passengers were smuggling down
slumber. There was a crash, and b
found himself in the aisle. He ws
knocked down and thrown beneath
pile of rubbish. The contents of tn
. water cooler and Babcock extlnguish,
soaked him through and through. Hal
stunned, he scrambled out and realize
t his narrow escape when he saw that tw
people who occupied the seat in front
him had been killed. The Pullman, a
ter tearing clear through one coach, hs
j, come obliquely to that in which he ss
shearing off about onethird of
. length. He had been in wrecks befor
> and through the carnage of war, b
this scene with it's dead and dying sill
t nly appalled him,