The Irish standard., 1893-05-13
ED TO W WORK.
fatal Result Of Defective Air
Brakes on q Train. 81
The Engineer Loses Control and the Cars
Oemolish the Depot at Lafayette, Ind.
Ten Persons Killed and Many
Others Injured.
A RUNAWAY TRAIN.

De-
LAFAYETTE, Ind, May s.. One Of the
most horrible wrecks in the history of
Indiana occurred on the Big Four road
IN this city at 1:15, Sunday morning,
as result of which ten men are now
dead and many more injured. The train
was the east-bound passenger leaving
Chicago at 9 p. m. The accident was
caused by the failure of the air brakes
to work. The engineer undoubtedly
discovered this before reaching the cut
beyond the Wabash river, as the vigor-
Gus whistling of the engine for brakes
xuld be heard when the train was still
d mile west of the city
THE DEPOT WRECKED.
The engineers desperate effort to
stop the train was shown by the large
amount of sand thrown by him on the
bridge through which the train came
lust before the fatal crash. Tne train
dashed out of the bridge over the Wa
bash river at speed of not less than so
miles an hour when the engine left the
track, crashing into the depot building,
tearing off portion, of the depot and
train sheds, carrying them several hun
dred feet.
The engine when it left the track was
followed by the baggage car, two postal
cars and the express car and piled IN
one promiscuous mass, tota! and COM
pletc wreck, burying score or more OF
victims in the pile Of debris. The trucks
of the first day coach were dragged
out and the side of the car knocked
into fragments. but no passengers in
this car were injured. The chair car
and two Pullman sleepers renamed on
the track The wreck was a complete
one the engine and cars being torn to
pieces and piled up together with their
contents.
KILLED AND INJURED.
The list of the dead is as follows:
Michael Welch, engineer, indianapolis, fright
fully mangled, head crushed leg torn from
body, found under the engine; Fireman Nc
Innis indianapolis; E. D. Myers, Logansport,
mail clerk; T. F. Mcmahon, Cincinnati, ex-
press messenger; A. r. Chadwick, Cincinnati
mail clerk; Charles Myers. Lafayette, hack
man: John Lennon, Lafayette, mail-cart
driver; Jesse H. Long, Lebanon. Ind, mail
clerk; Charles Schahill, passenger. just bought
q ticket to Indianapolis; Otto Jerselson, AL
hambra hotel Chicago, passenger going to
train.
These were all frightfully crushed
and mangled, their limbs being severed
in several instances and bodies terribly
disfgured.
The injured are as follows:
Jefferson Reese, kempton, bruised and cut
about the head: Richard Jones. Pontiac, ILL.,,
cnt about head; Louis LETTER, Fowler, cut by
glass from breaking windows; Sephas Bergen
Gale, Milwaukee, cut about head and hand bad
~ bruised; William Place, living near Frank
fort, Ind, bruised and cut; Charles Roush, La
fayette, leg broken in two places; William
Rechtel Lebanon, Ind. passenger in waiting
room, arm and hand lacerated; c. A. Wissell,
A. W. Cornahan, L. A. Wetzler and J. N. Wick
cry, mail clerks, GIL from Cincinnati, were more
or less injured, but not seriously
The damage to property will be fully
$4,000, while the subsequent losses
which will grow out Of the disaster
will make the total a very large sum-