The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-09-23
A BRAKEMAN bLUNDEREO
Responsible for Another Frightful
Slaughter OF Visitors to the
Worlds Fair
Opened the Switch Too Soon and
the Passenger Crashed Into
Freight.
Eleven Bodies, Mangled Almost Beyond
Eecognition, Taken From tho Wreck
Many Others Injured.

CmcAao, Sept. 22-At Kingsbnry. Ind,
on the Wabash road, sixty miles east Of
Chicago the second section OF the west
bound passenger train + ON Detroit to Chi-
cago ran into an east bound freight on .
siding early this morning. wrecking both
engines. coaches and a sleeper. Engineer
Green and conductor Coulter, of the pas
senQer train, are among she killed, and tn
engineer of the freight was injured. The
accident was csussd by the freight brake
mansopening the switch to Let the freight
out of the aiding after tho first section of
the passenger had passed and just before
the arrival of the secoad section. Kolies
trains have gone TO the scene, taking phy-
! sicians. Most OF the passengers wero from
tho east bound for the Worlds fair.
OF the dead. three are trainmen, tho
others passengers, as follows: j. II. No
K,nna, HYDE Park. Mass.; Horny French.
Toronto. Canada; Charles Bsrbe, San
Francisco; Miss Alice II. Reed. East Boz
ton. Mass; Miss Netis B. Tucker. Now
ton. Mas; J. L. Coulter, conductor Of
passenger train; John Green. engineer Of
iassengsr train; ". g. Rider. Phoenix.
Ariz.; - Lyons. baagaeeman of Wabash
Dad; II. g. Zells. Germany; Mrs. Burbank.
New Orleans;J. ID. Roundy, Lameslle. la.
The injured in shs hospital at Perm. Ini..
are: Samuel Garfield and wife. of Utica.
N. Y; S. Oliver Hill, of Somsrsvarth. N.
H; Miss Anna Hill. Olives's sister; G. II.
Hodsden and wife, of Dover. N. h.; Frank
p. Dow, OF Fai haven. WASH. journalist
confusion of tho head and shoulder bruised;
W. Rider ard wife, of Phoenix, AriZ., and
their foster daughter. Mr. Rider is cut
about the head. Mrs. Riders thigh is fTac-
tured, the daughter 10 In jured inte nally;
Riders foster son was killed. Dow was in
the smoker. How he crawied out OF tho
wreck he doss not know. He eays he as
| then becsme exhs usted and tainted on ths
bank. He ia able to sit up but his face is a
terrible sight Willie Evans Edward Rush.
VIM. Hoskins and Albert Moulton, aged II
England; James b. Wookey, Henry Aaron.
Sidney Fleming, James Lane, Charles
Botham and Herbert Lane. members OF .
troupe of hnnd bell ringers.
Other injured are: Otto Honk, Ger
many; Mrs. Doughan. Aurdienne. Pa, w.
leg broken; MRS. Keller. of Massachusetts
may die; Mrs. seavey. of New Hampshire;
Fireman Walker, Fireman Barber.
Crushed and splintered simbers and
broken truss rods. warped and fractured
truoko. two giant locomotives dismantled
and literally welded together, attest in
fearful reality the awful results OF one
mans carelsssneGs. The casamity IL
ectly attributable to Bra keman Herbert
Thompson's carelessnesE. He has disnp-
reared and all enorts to IND him nave thus
far been In vain.
The vestibulsd limited train. No. 6b.
Detroit to Chicago. was running in two
sections and dus to pass this station At
4:40 q. m. Fast freight No. 90 was on q
siding here waiting TO lot No. IS pass. Tho
first section of IS passed at 6:15 4. M. and
by her whistle called the atsen-
tion Of the freight orew TO tho SEQ
ond section. The engineer replied. but II
seems Brakeman Thompson did not notice
switch for No. 80 to leave. He had hardly
done this before the second section was
seen bearing down. Thompson seemed to
be paralyzsd. sweHvina to the left tho
ponderous mass of steel, drawing its pre-
cious load. lunged heavily into ths waiting
freight train with a horrible crash.
The result Was fearful. and tho scene
thnt ensued was awful. Nearly all the pas
sengers vols asleep and the suddennsss of
the crash so dazed the unfortunates that
for a few minutes all was still. save for the
Wheeling of escaping steam. But soon the
agonixed Screams of the wounded and
dying rent tho cir. Few of the uninj jnred
had presence OF mind 10 mako an effort to
rescue the imprisoned Victims but with the
arrival of q number of residents the work
Ol 1Neluk Nuplebu NiS'iA" wan nopA
under way. Owing to the huge mass into
which the wreck piled ii WAS prodiRious
uni ertaking, and IL was some hours before
the last of the living we're removed and the
dead were finally exsrieated only after the
arrival of crew with apparatus.
4 he dead, as fast as takon from the
wreck, were laid beside the track pending
removal to tho undertakers, whiie the in
iur cd wore cared for at tho nearest resi-
dsnces. Such OF the wounded as would
consent were taken to the Wabash railway
hospital at Peru. Ind.
Wm. Sedel, of San Francisco. had an
almost miraculous escape from horrible
death. He was sitting near the middle Of
the smoker and in the same seat as his
friend Charles Birbs. Charlie and | were
about half asleep" said Seidsl to-day,
| when the crash came. l could not I'M
agine what had happened. l fslt myself
thrown high in the air, then struck the
ground fully sixty feet from whore our
coach was ,nd found myself badly bruised.
but not seriously hurt at once began
looking for Bifbe. and soon snw him taken
from under the ruins crushed frightfully.
He had been instantly killed. l think
WAS thrown through the roof OF the car.
NV clothes wsre torn and my face
| scratohs d"
Guilty of Crimina, Negligence.
KANkAKnE, H., Sept. 22.-The ooroner's
jury this evening rendered a vsrniet 6nd-
ing Engineer Thomas Ames of the second
! caction ,nd 0ryile Dunoau Nnpman of