Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-09-19
ASLEEP AT HIS POST,
An Engineers Negligence Blamed
for a Terrible Disaster.
NINE KILLED In A COLLISION,
Worst Wreck on the Road ir
Years.
THE KILLED AND INJURED,

CHICAGO. Sept ls.-Nine people wers
killed and twenty injured last night by a
fearful rear-end collision between two sec
tions Of the Big Four train known as 5 at
the village Of Manteno. a few miles north
OF kankakee, on the line Of the Illinois Gen.
trail railway.
The Victims.
The following is a list of the dead SO far
as known:
David Jaskson. Cynthiana, Ohio; Chris
kimmel Dayton. Ohio; seven others dead,
but impossible to ascertain names at pres
ent
The injured are: Blanche Bellson Sinking
Springs, Ohio. limbs badly bruised; L. II.
Blanton. Cincinnati. fatally; George Brack-
ney, Wilmington, Ohio, limbs crushed
probably fatal: Jas. w. Brown. Wilmington.
Ohio. internal and head: Mrs. Jas. w.
Brown. internal injury; Anna Cowell, New
Lower Albany. Indiana; VIM. Evans, Pow
ellton,W. Va. internal injury; Miss Salie
Evans, Powellton, internal injury; J. w.
Foster. Springfield. Ohio. scalp wound and
eye gouged; Mrs. J. W. Foster, ribs broken,
internal and probably fatal: Mrs. Emma
Gallatin. Columbus Ohio. back and limbs
bruised: Miss E. Gallstin. Columbus, Ohio
limbs bruised; Miss Libbie jackson, Gym
thiana, Ohio. internal and other injuries
probably fatal; Mrs. Chris Kimmel. Dayton.
Ohio. head and body injured: J. w. Means
Chester. South Carolina. slightly in
tured back and head; Jessie Moses.
Cincinnati. badly injured internally:
Olive Patton, Carmel Ohio. body bruised:
Albert Jay Sholter. Ripley. Ohio. bad cut
face and head. probably fatal: Emily Tenn
pleton. Sinking Springs. Ohio. head and
body; C B. Wisehart. Frankfort, Ohio. in
ternal injury: VIM. Blain. Indianapolis.
Ind, internal injuries and cut around head
and face.
How II Happened.
The accident happened in this way; An
Illinois Central passenger train had stopped
to take water at a tank a quarter OF a mile
north OF Manteno. The first section Of the
train. No. As. came to q stop. but II is said
that no fagman was sent back to flag
the second section of No. 4. 1t is a
straight track for two or three miles. and
II a flagman had been sent back the eng1-
neer Of the second section could not
fail to have seen him. On the other
hand. 1t is said the engineer Of the second
train was asleep. and that the fireman was
throwing coal into the fire box. Both en-
gineer and fireman saw the train ahead OF
them just In time to jump. They lad .
narrow escape for their lives.
The first section Of train No. Is left Chi
cago about s15 o'clock. 1t was followed a
few minutes later by the second section.
There was dead sleeper on the rear
end OF the first train. or, In other words.
the car was empty. The car ahead of IL
was the day coach. and contained some
forty or fifty passengers.
The second section of the train crashed
into the dead" sleeper. driving It forward
through the day coach, and moving the
passengers down as II hit with a huge
scythe.
Many Of the passengers had fallen asleep,
and they were killed outright. The empty
sleeper went through the roof OF the day
coach. and n did not stop until it had COM
pletely teiescoped the car from end to end
Worst Wreck I'm Years.
The wreck was the worst that has oc-
CURED on the Illinois Central system for
twenty years. Several Of the injured are
the list Of fatalities win be swelled to four
teen.
Several Of the unknown dead are thought
to be prominent men Of Cincinnati and ad-
joining cities In Indiana, Kentucky and
Ohio.
The bodies were badly mutilated ani IN
recognizable. Only two Of the entire list Of
killed could be identified
All the injured. excepting L. II. Blontol.
Cincinnati; Olive Patton, Carmel. Ohio;
Emily Templeton, Sinking Springs. Ohio;
Anna Cowell Lower Albany, Ind; Jesse
Morse. Cincinnati. Ohio; Emma Gallatin,
Columbus. Ohio. and Miss e. Gallatin, Co.
lumbus. Ohio, were brought to this city and
taken to ST. Luke's Hospital by the city
ambulances and patrol wagons The train
conveying them to the city arrived at s
o'clock this morning.
Ample preparations have been made by
the police department to remove the in
| Jured to the hospital, and with al possible
haste under the circumstances they were
taken out Of the cars. placed on stretcners.
carried to the waiting patrol wagons and
driven TO St Luke's. where a corps Of ply
sicians was ready to give them medical at
tendance. The dead had been removed to
Kankakee.
A Passenger's Story.
J. w, Means Of Chester, 8. C, one Of the
| least injured. was an occupant OF the first
| sleeper in the wrecked train. 'I was tust
ready to go to bed he said. '-and had
| told the porter to flx my section, when our
| train stopped / I'D not attach any particu-
| lar attention to that as l supposed e was
| merely a stop on signal or for a water sta
| tion. We had oeen stanilng stin perhaps
| four minutes when / heard a rumble be-
| hind us, and a moment after the whistle OF
| q locomotive a half dozen times repeated.
| turned toward the rear OF the sleeper, and
| then there came q crash which put out
| every light In the car. l was hurled head
| long to the aisle, sni under one Of the
lower berths. II seemed an age to me be-
| fore could get out. ] heard cries all about
| me for help, and answering cries from reo-
| pie outside who were beginning to come
| back from the day coaches and aid In the
work Of rescuing. As crawled out from
| the wrecked sleeper everything was In to-
| tai darkness, but 1 could see outlined
| against the sky the cars, as they were
| wedged together. broken and splintercd. ]
| helped to pull out a NUMBER OF the injured
before discovered that i, too. was hurt.
Then my arm and back began to pain. and
felt the blood running from my head"
| Mrs. kimmers Grief.
One Of the most pitiful sights around the
| wreck was the grief of Mrs. Chris Kimmel,
herself probably fatally injured.
A number Of those on board were from
Dayton, Cynthiana, and other Ohio points
| and they had secured berths near together
| In the sleeper worst wrecked. the one next