Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-09-21
RAILROAD WRECK.
Terrible Calamity on the Big
Four Road.
A Rear-End Collision Near Kan
kakee, Illinois.

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yond Recovery and It Is Probable That
the List OF Fatalities VIII BE sweIled to
Fourteen-scven or Eight Crushed Be
yond Recognition-The Passengers Were
Mostly People Returning From the
Worlds Fair.
CHICAGO, Sept. 19.-Nine people were
killed and 20 injured by fearful rear
end collision between two sections of
the Big Four train known as No. 45
Cincinnati express). near the village of
Manteno, few miles north Of Kanka-
kee, on the line of the Illinois Central
railroad. The following is list of the
dead and injured:
The Dead.
Emil Kimmel, Dayton, o.
]. w. Powell. New Vienna, o.
L. L. Sweet, Louisville.
David Jackson, Carmel, 0.
Minnie DIVERS, Lower Albany, Ind.
Elderly man, unidentified.
Young man, unidentified.
Young woman, unidentified.
The Injured.
Blanche Belleson, Sinking Springs,
O., limbs badly bruised.
L. H. Blonton, Cincinnati. fatal.
George Brackney, Wilmington, o.,
limbs crushed.
James w. Brown, Wilmington, O.,
internal and head.
Mrs. James w. Brown, internal in
jury.
Anna Cowells, Lower Albany, Ind.
William Evans, Powellton, w. Va,
internal injury.
Miss Saliie Evans, Powellton, W. Va. /,
internal injury.
]. w. Foster, Springfield, o., scalp
wound and eye gouged.
Mrs. J. w. Foster, ribs broken, in
ternal injuries; probably fatal.
Mrs. Emma Gallatin, Columbus, o.,
back and limbs bruised.
Miss E. Gallatin, Columbus, o.,
limbs bruised.
Miss Libbie Jackson, Cynthiana, o.,
internal and other injuries, probably
fatal.
Mrs. Chris Mimmel, Dayton, O., head
and body injured.
j. W. Means, Chester, S. c., slightly
injured, back and head.
Jesse Morse, Cincinnati, badly inter.
nally.
bruised!
Albert ]. Sholter, Ripley, O., badly
cut face and head, probably fatal.
Emily Templeton, Sinking Springs
O., head and body.
G. B. Wisehart, Frankfort, O., in
ternal injury.
William Blain, Indianapolis, interna
injuries and cut around head anG
face
The accident happened in this way
An Illinois Central passenger train hat
stopped to take water at tank quar-
ter Of a mile north of Manteno. Tht
first section of train No. 40 came to /;
stop, but it is said that no fiagman wal
sent back to flag the second section O.
| No. As.
II is straight track for two or thre
miles, and If the fiagman had been sen
back the engineer of the second section
| could not have failed to see him. Oh
the other hand it is said the engineer o
the second section was asleep, and tina
the fireman was throwing coal into tn
frebox. Both engineer and tirepnal
saw the train ahead Of them just il
time to jump. They had narrow es
! cape for their lives.
| The first section of train No. 45 lef
| Chicago about 5:15 o'clock. 1t was fol
lowed few minutes later by the sec
| ond section. There was a dead
sleeper on the rear end of the frs
| train, or in other words, the car wa
| empty. The car ahead of it was tn
| day coach, and contained some 40 or 5
passengers. The second section of tn
train crashed into the dead" sleeper
driving it forward through the da
coach, and moving the passenger
down as if hit with a huge scythe,
Many Of the passengers had falle
asleep and they were killed outright
The empty sleeper went through th
roof of the day coach and it did nc
stop until it had completely torn th
car from end to end. The wreck wa
the worst that has occurred on the Ill
/ nois Central system for 20 years.
| Several of the injured are beyond RI
covery, and it is probable that the lii
of fatalities will be swelled to ID. Se'
eral of the unknown are thought to b
prominent men of Cincinnati and az
| joining cities in Indiana, Kentucky an
\ Ohio.
The bodies were badly mutilated an
unreconizable.
All the injured, excepting L. q. Blol
ton, Cineinnati; Oliver Patton, Carme
| o.; Emily Templeton, Sinking Spring
| O.; Anna Cowells, Lower Albany, Ind
Jessie Morse, Cincinnati; Emma Gall
tin, Columbus, o., and Miss E. Gall
tin, Columbus. o., were brought
this city and taken to st. Luke's hosp
. tai by the ambulances and patr
wagons.
Ample preparations had been MAJ
by the police department to remove Il
injured to the hospital, and with a
possible haste under the circumstanc
they were taken out of the cars, place
on stretchers, carried to the waitiI
patrol wagons and driven to st. Luke
where corps of physicians were reat
! to give them medical attention. III
dead had been removed to Kankakee.
NlTRoeLYcERlN EXPERIMENT.