Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-15
MANGLED AND SLAIN.
FRreHTFuL WRECK ON THE
FORT WAYNE ROAD.
Twelve People are Killed and a score
BADLY Injured Louisville Flyer. from
Chicago, Crashes Into q Milk Traln-Ds-
tails Of III Disaster.
Dashed to Death.

In a collision the other morning be-
tween a milk train of the Pittsburg,
Chicago and Fort Wayne Railway and
an east-bound passenger train out Of
Chicago on the Panhandle, or Pitts
burg, Cincinnati, Chicago and st. Louis
Railway, twelve persons were killed
outright n nineteen others were in
jured. The collision occurred on the
Y running from the main line just
south of Colehour to East Hammond,
Ind, at the point of q curve, and in q
eparsely settled locality. The baggage
car of the east-bound passenger train
was ground into pieces, and from this
most of the killed and injured were
taken.
The scene of the wreck being far re-
moved from immediate police and sur
gical aid made the calamity q most dis
tressing one, ard it was more than an
hour before the first of those rescued,
manned and bleeding, could be. carried
to houses in Colehour and South Chi
cago for treatment. Physicians were
summoned from tho latter place and
engines and unused cars were hastily
prepared and rushed to the scene of the
wreck.
Terrible Force of the Collision.
The trains met on tho single track
of the "Y," or East Hammond branch,
just whero there is q heavy curve. The
contact OF The moving masses OF cars
was tremendous and hardly a standing
portion was left OF the e%ast-bound bag
age a l. The twisted and torn pieces
OF this car arc penetrated in every di-
rection by the jagged iron points of
The milk train locomotive, and when
tho residents of Colehour came hurry
ing to tho scene they foun1 the fruit
cars of both trains heaped over tho
bodies OF passengers buried beneath.
The cries OF those not yes dead and
the exposed portions of more than one
great loss of life. All tho horrible de.
tails of q railway collision wore present
tho great heap of torn and collapsed
cars, the hot fragments of iron, and the
hiss OF escaping steam. Even the lat
ter could not drown the means of the
wounded. who were helpless, while the
uninjured passengers and those of the
train crew not buried in the wreck
made preparations for their relief.
Word Of the calamity having reached
South Chicago, the police notified the
surgeons of that city, and by 10 o'clock
o procession of these and many citizens
was on its way to the death field.
Twelve dead bodies were taken out
the wreck. The list of the killed is:
ANsoN TEMPLE, Manager of Schiller Theater.
Chicago.
Unknown man with Manager Temple. Prob.
WILLIAM R1aNEy, Travelling Passeneey
Agent Wisconsin Central Railroad.
. G: A. HINES. V~incennes, Ind.
MILLIAM SHoNICKER, New Albany, Ind.
WILLIAM RICHARDSON, Chicago.
r. D. ADAMS, Fairfield, Ill.
r.. A. BARNARD, Terre Haute, Ind.
Four unknown men.
Nineteen people were badly hurt.
Colehour, a settlement that is prac-
tically a southern continuation of
South Chicago, and which contains
many OF the latter's shipping interests,
lies between the lake shore and the
Calumet River at 1O5th street. 1t
is but a short distance north
OF Roby, and is cut by thres rail-
ways, the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and
Chicago, the Lake Shore, and the Bal
timore and Ohio. The Indiana State
line touches the lake shore just south.
east OF Colehour, which is thirteen
miles from the city hall. The town
concentrates it's business along the
river front, where there are salt. lum.
her and coal docks and ship-building
yards.