Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-09-28


|mcAGo. Sept CIT is reported that
second section of the westbound YES
lie express on the Detroit division of
Wabash road. due in this city at 715
h.. was wrecked near Kingsbury this
lining and many persons were killed.
officials of the company in this city
nit that there has been an accident but
fess ignorance of the details. Kings
Is is 81 miles east of Chicago.
Twelve dead bodies have been taken from
wrecked train and it is believed there
still Is or % bodies to be removed.
\ Later Report.
ENGsBURY. Ind, Sept. 22.-Eleven dead
les rest upon improvised slabs and tables
cr the roof of the modest Masonic hall of
| village, and n score of injured persons
| registered a~ inmates of the city hospital
. Peru, 60 miles distant. as the result OF ii
| ision on the Wabash railroad at this
20 at daylight this morning. The re
i d list of dead and injured is nS follows;
bead. McKcnna butcher, Hyde Park,
s.: Harry French. aged II. of the Lon
charity school, London, Eng; Charles
bee. san Francisco; Alice Reed, East
ton: Miss Lille Il. Tucker. Boston. Mass.
lren G. Ryder. Phoenix. Arizona: H. {.
. H. Germany: j. y. Roundy, Lamoillc,
n; John Green engineer of the passenger
II. Ashley. Iowa: j. G.. Coulter. conduc-
of the passenger train. Detroit; W. L.
N. haggagemaSter of the passenger train,
roit
nuicd-Erank p. Dow Fair Haven.
| sh. scalp wound: Miss NJ. \. Kelley,
oklinc Mass. head cut and badly
iscd; otto Huck, Hamburg, Germany,
,cd and ankle ,prained; &. :. Hodson,
cr. \. H, chin gashed and injuries TO
X. Mrs :. 4. SeaVcy, SomerSworth, n.
back injured. general confusion and ner-
prostration Mrs. NJ W. Burbank, New
ans. right arm and both legs broken,
litiou critical; Mrs II. W. Ryder, PhU-
Arizona. face and body cut, right leg
ken: Simon Garfield, lronwood, Mich,
u,iono of the limbs and body; Mrs.
field. wife of Simon Garfield, left arm
ken. confusion of head; Mrs. D.ssDugan,
lcnrcid. Pa. Slight bruise; w. j. As
:. residence unknown, left leg fractured,
rual injuries, unconscious; Edward
h, London, Eng. youth, surface contu-
=. William Evans, London, Eng, aged
both Legs broken Albert Malten, youth,
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rcsS. slightly hruiscd Henry Nolking.
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he catastrophe was due to an instant or
etfulness or absent mlndedneSS ON the
of the brakeman who Is given the best
regulations 10y the Wabash Officers
Ght Tram NO. t. east bound from
ago was due at inns point at 4;Su a. m.
as under orders 10 take tine Sl1iliig ana
the arrival of west bound passenger
'eNN No. D. which according to the
DUE should nave passed the hlhSsbury
at 4;4o' Inc express however was
lih'lteN l''e ana OWNS TO tho heaVy
81 growing out OF the world lalr' IL
divided INTO Two sections, the second
ON running - minutes pehihd the
pth sections We're lhade up at bunaio'
pasSeIlSe IilcluiluS PeoPle Iroiil tii"'
as well as from the various INES centre
~ :. '''l "iI,, l,,,, w.
90 minnie, to snare. Engineer Whitman
10 frrirbt train procerded M the siding
"a main line to taLe water the switch
o. thrown omen by Herbert Thomson.
rackman Of the freight
liter tho engine had taken water the
Inf was hacked to the siding and Thomp.
closed the switch. REGARDING this lat
act there is no room for question. for AT
the first section s,ycpt mast ON fine main
k. giving the usual sicnal-one long and
short blasts-to intimate TO the FREIGHT
n second section was following close be.
The movements of Brakeman Thomp.
i'm tho next few moment, remain 10 Inc
lopod
rtau il i, that when - minutes later
section Of the west bound EXPRESS came
derinr along at a speed of 40 miles m
the switch was Oman I'm the carly
II fine red loht. ot the switch and IN,
ton whether either the engineer or fire
Of fine PASSENGER train looked for tbop,
re in their knowledge that week in anC
III "ut they had swept over the salh
NO "lUhouu hiiiorahce.
Like Flash of Lightning,
efore fine train took the siding and nj
before fine engineer and fireman roaI