Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-09-30
ELEVEN LOSE THEIR LIVES
Terrible Wreck on the Wabash
Road in Indiana.
Caused by the Turning of a Switch. The
Toronto and Montreal Express Crashes
Into a Fret ut Near kingsbury
..Wrect in AIab ANA.

KISasBURY, Ind, Sept. 23.-Eleven
persons lost their lives in a collision
betty cen a freight train and the
Toronto and Montreal express on the
Wabash railraad at this station at $3.50
a. m. Friday. A score were in
iured, many of whom will die. The
freight was on n c siding west
Of the depot and was bound east
The first section Of the express train
passed by on the main track at 5:25 n.
m. 1t IL said that the brakeman
supposed the freight would not move
and ran back to open the switch before
the cars had begun to move. The Sec
ond section of the fast express came
west at the rate of hfty-five miles an
hour and before the brakeman could
turn the switch dashed into the side
track and collided with the freight
train.
The wreck Is complete and the
houses for miles around are filled with
the dead and wounded.
The list of killed is as follows:
i. II. MrKENNA OF Hyde Park, Mass.
HARRY FRENCH. i3 years old, mem
Der of Orphan Bell Ringers, London, Eng
land.
CHARLES BERBo, San Francisco.
SAM FRANCIS, East Boston, Mass.
Mass.
MISS NELLIE b. RUCKER, Newton,
Mass.
CONDUCTOR JAMES COULTER
ENGINEER JOHN GREEN, Ashley,
Ind. passenger train.
WARRE ORDER, Phoenix. Ariz
r. Y. ZELLE. Berlin, Germany.
BAGGAGE MASTER LICENS, pas
senger tran.
Unknown man.
The injured are:
Mrs. i W. BURBANK. New Orleans, La,
GO years old, arms md one leg broken,
law zone fractured will die.
w LLIAM ADAMS, 10 years old, London.
Eng, member Orphan Bell Ringers, both
legs broken, injured internally; will die.
Miss HA TIE HUTCuISs, Phoniz, Ariz.
bruised about head and injured internally
recovery doubtful.
FIREMAN BARBER, OF Ashley, passenger
train. leg broken and severely burned
recovery doubtful.
II. j. Walk SEY, foreman ON freight
train. burned and scalded about head and
breast, may die.
WILLIAM j. HAsKINs. II years old, Lon
don, England, compound fracture of right
leg, left shoulder broken, recovery doubt
full.
EDWARD RusH, 10 years old, London,
bruised about body, head cut.
SwIEN CANFIELD, lronwood, Mich,
bruised about h.ad and shoulder dtslo'
Gated.
Mrs l.. CANPIELp. Ironwood, Mich.
left arm broken, shoulder dislocated and
head badly cut.
II. w. RYDER, Phoenix, Ariz.. head Gu,
and leg bruised, not seriously.
q 3. HoDGsoS, Dover, n. H., tcctl
knocked out, arm fractured and legs
bruised.
MRS. 5. A. SEVERELY, S~omerville, head
cut and arm dislocated.
I Albert MORTON. IL years did. London,
England, arm hurt and two deep scalp
wounds
FRANK Z. Dow. ~Fairhaven, Wash, face
cut and hip dislocated.
JAMES G.. WoKLEY, London, Eng head
cut and bach injured.
ENGINEER WHITMAN, on freight engine,
right arm broken and badly burned, seri
ously injured but may recover.
Miss HATTIE ROGERS, Phoenix, Ariz
left leg fractured and injured internally.
Mrs DoLBER, ASS Green avenue, Brook
Ign. leg fractured and cut about the head
Mis- OLIVE HILL. Summersworth, n.
injured internally and head cut.
Miss ME Hill, Summersworth, n. H.
slightly bruised.
Miss =. A KELLY, Boston, severe scalI
The Boiler Blew Up.
Ii was the worst wreck the Wabash
road has ever had. To add To the hor
rors of the terrible collision the boiler
of the passenger engine blew up scat
terlnQ human bodies and car yraakao.