The morning call., 1893-09-23
ONE MANS cARELEssNEss.
Paralyzed When He Saw the
Error He Had Made.
TWO TRAINS CRASHED TOGETHER
And Brakeman Thompson Stood By,
Seemingly Unable to Raise a
Hand to Save Them.

KINGsBURY. Ind, Sept. 22.-Eleven
bloody objects, some torn and mangled
beyond all semblance of humanity. score
of bleeding and bruised victims. such are
the awful results of this mornings horror,
occurring at this little village, on the De-
tr0it division of the Wabash Railway. The
list of dead is as follows:
Charles Bierbe of San Francisco, % years
old and unmarried.
Miss Nellie B. Tucker of Newton, Mass.
II. E. Seeley of Germany
Harry French of Toronto.
Engineer John Green of Ashley, Ind,
leaves wife and four children.
j. II. McKenna of Hyde Park, Mass.
Miss Alice II. Reed of East Boston, Mass.
Warren c. Ryder. aged years, Of
Arizona.
Mrs. Burbank of New Orleans. La.
Baggage-master Lyons of D Dstroit.
j. D. Roundy of La Moille, Iowa.
Conductor j. E. Coulter of Detroit
The injured in the hospital at Peru,
Ind. are:
Samuel Garfield ana wife of Utica. NY.
S. Olive Hill of Somersworth. n. II.
Miss Anna Hill, Olives sister.
G. II. Hodsden and wife of Dover, n. 81.
Frank 2. Dow of Fairhayen, Wash,
journalist has a confusion of the head
and his shoulder bruised. Dow was in
the smoker. How he crawled out of the
wreck he does not know. He says he as
sisted in pulling out two young women;
then, exhausted. he tainted on the bank.
He is able to sit up. but his face is terri
bic signt.
w. Ryder and wife of Phoenix, Arlz.,
and their daughter. Mr.. RYDER is cut
about the head. Mrs. Ryder's thigh is frac-
tured. and their daughter is injured inter-
ternally. The little boy killed, Warren
6. Ryder. was the son of this couple.
Willie Evans. Edward Rush, William
Hoskins and Albert Mouton, aged from
II to Ii years, orphan home boys of
London, England.
James B. Wookey.
Henry Aaron. ..-s.-.-. ......
Sidney Fleming. t"
James Lane.
Charles BOtham and Herbert Lane.
members Of troupe of handbell ringers.
The others Injured are
Otto Houk of Germany.
Mrs. DOugan of Aurainne, Pa.
W. j. Hotchkiss.
Mrs. ROundy of La Moille, Iowa, leg
broken.
Mrs. Keller of Massachusetts, NAV die.
Mrs. Seavey of New Hampshire.
Fireman Walker.
Fireman Barber.
Crushed and splintered timbers and
broken trussrods. warped and fractured
trucks. two giant locomotives dismantled
and literally welded together, attest in
fearful fatality the awful results of one
mans carelessness. The calamity is
directly attributable TO Brakeman Herbert
Thompson's carelessness. He has dis.
appeared, and all efforts to tiud him have
thus far been in vain.
The story OF the wreck is told as follows:
Train So, from Detroit to Chicago. running
in two sections, was due to pass this sta
ton at 4:40 A NJ, and fast freight No, 90
was on siding here waiting to let No. 80
pass. The first section CT No 55 passed AZ
5:15, and by whistle called the attention of
the freight crew to the second section.
The engineer replied, but it seems that
Brakeman Thompson did not notice the
signal and went ahead to open the switch
for No. 93 to leave. He had hardly done
this when the second section of No. 55
was seen bearing down. The sight seems
to have rendered him utterly unable to
correct the false move he had made, and
he stood as one daZed.
Swerving to the left the pondrous mass
of steel, drawing its precious load, lunged
heavily into the waiting freight train with
horrible crash. The result of the crash
was fearful, and the scene that ensued was
awful. Nearly all the passengers were
asleep, and the suddenness of the crash
so dazed the unfortunates for a few min
utes that all was still save for the kissing
of the escaping steam. but soon the ago.
nized screams of the wounded and dying
rent the air.
Few of the uniniured had presence of
mind sufficient to make an effort to rescue
the imprisoned victims, but with the
arrival of a number OF residents If the i'm