Evening journal., 1893-09-19
NINE KILLED IN A WRECK
Twenty or More Frightfully
Mangled and Crushed.
THE ENGINEER WAS ASLEEP

End CollIsion-Heads and Bodies of
Passengers Were Crushed and the
Timber DrIpped with the Blood of the
Dead and Dying.
CHICAGO, Sept, 19.-Two sections of
Big Four passenger train No. 40, came
together in a rear end collision near the
village of Manteno, few miles north of
Kankakee on the line of the Illinois Cen
trail railroad shortly before 10 o'clock last
night.
Nine people were killed and twenty or
more injured. The list of dead as far
as known is
JACKSON. DAVID, Cynthiana, o.
KINIsEL. CHRISTOPHER, Dayton, o.
The bodies of seven impossible as yet
to identify.
Injured.
BELLEsON, BLANCHE, Sinking Springs
o., limbs crushed.
BLANTON,. L. H., Cincinnati, fatally in
iured.
BROWN. JAMES w. Wilmington. o., in
ternally injured, and head crushed.
BROWN, MRS. JAMES W.. Wilmington,
Ohio, inteTnal'injuries.
COWELLs, ANNA, Lower Albany, Ind.
EVANS, WILLIAM, Powellton, w. Va, in
ternal injuries.
nal injuries.
FOSTER. J.. w. Springfield Ohio. scalp
wound and eye gouged.
Y FOSTER, MRS. J. W., wife Of last named,
ribs broken, injuries probably fatal.
GALLATIN, MRS. EMMA. Columbus, o.
back and limbs crushed
GALLATIN, MISS E., Columbus, o., limbs
bruised.
81 JACKSON. MISS { LIBBIE. Cynthiana, o..
internal injuries, probably fatal.
KINMEL. MRS. CHRISTOPHER, Dayton.
TO.. head and body crushed.
MEANs,J. W., Chester, S. c., head and
back slightly injured.
MORSE, JESSIE, Cincinnati, badly injured
internally.
SHELTER, ALBERT JAY. Ripley. o had
head cut and crushed. probably fatal.
TEMPLETON, EMILY, Sinking Springs.
o.. head and body badly cut.
wEsHART, c. B., Frankford, o., internal
injuries.
BLAlN, WILLIAM, Indianapolis, head and
face cut internal injuries.
The first section left Chicago at s.
followed shortly after by the second
section. The passengers were many of
then returning from the World sgFair.
The first section had to stop near
Manteno to let an the Illinois Central
train ahead get water It is said no flag.
man was sent back to flag the second
section.
The track is straight for. several miles
at this point, and had fagman gone
back, the engineer could not have failed
to see him. 1t is stated on the other
hand, however, that the engineer Of the
second train was asleep and the fireman
was throwing coal into the furnace.
Engineer and Fireman1Jumped.
The second train was going at terrif,
speed and the engineer and fireman saw
the train ahead just in time to Jump anC
save their lives, without attempting t,
stop their engine. On the rear of tn,
first train was an empty sleeping car
The car ahead was a day coach contain
ing forty or fifty passengers.
The second engine crashed into the
empty sleeper, drove it through the first
coach telescoping the car from end t.
end The passengers, most of whom
were awake and conversing, were swep
from their seats in a twinkhng anS
crushed and mangled. Limbs were tori
off, heads and bodies crushed, and tn
broken timbers dripped with the bioo'
of dead and dying.
The Killed MangIed Beyond Recognition
OF those killed seven were so badl
mutilated as to be unrecognizable
Several Of the unknown dead are be
lieved to be citizens of Cincinnati and aG
ioing towns in Indiana, Kentucky an
Ohio.
Several of the Injured VIII Die.
Several of the injured cannot live
with the exception of L. II. BlontoI
Olive Patton, Emily Templeton, Hanna
Cowells, Jessie Morse, Emma Gallati
and Miss e Gallatin. All the injure
were brought to the city hospitals here
The dead are at Kankakee.
A Passengers Account of the Wreck.
]. w. Means, of Chester, S. G
was In the car that was wrecke,
He was about to 90 to bed. 4
said when ne heard a rumble and
whistle shrieking dozen times. The
came crash which extinguished ever
light in the car. He was hurled und,
one of the lower berths where for a tim
he was pinned down.
Had to Work in Darkness.
Piteous cries for help arose from a
sides. These were answered by the frigh
ened passengers in the coaches ahea'
They came to the rescue quickly an
extracted the mangled and bleeding on'
from their horrible position. The wor
of rescue was greatly hampered by lac
Of lights
Mrs. Kimmers Pathetic Grief.
Mrs. Chris Kimmel. of Dayton, Q
herself probably fatally injured, wei
and mourned all night for her husban
who was killed at her side. A numb
of other people from Dayton. Cyntl
ana and other Ohio towns had bert
near that of the Kimmels
When rescued Mrs. Kimmel could on
whisper a heartrending appeal to sa
her husbands body, which she fear
would be burned.
Complete List of the Dead.
CHICAGO Later-The list of dead