The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-09-08


FLwsyne track and q south-bouRd Pan.
Handle passenger train en- route to Val
paraisO, Ind, collided on "Y" at 1Osth
street this morning. Ten people
were killed and many injured. The
scene Is an out of the way suburb called
Colehour, near the Indiana state line
and thirteen miles from the city hall. Z
The baggage car Of the east bound
passenger train was ground into pieces,
and from this car most OF the killed
and injured were taken. The removal
Of the scene Of the wreck from imme-
diate police and surgical aid made the
calamity most distressing one. and it
was more than an hour before the first
Of those rescued, manned and bleeding,
could be carried to houses in Colehour
and South Chicago for treatment
Physlclans were summoned from the
latter place, and engines and unused
cars were hastily prepared and rushed
TO the scene OF the wreck. Following
is a list OF the dead and injured:
The dead are:
Anson Temple, manager Schiller the
atre, Chicago:
ing, Worlds Fair.
+. N. Rigney. travelling passenger
agent Wisconsin Central.
6. A. Hines, Vincennes, Ind.
William Shoniker, New Albany, Ind.
william Richardson, 2l17 State street.
Id. Adams, Fairfield. III.
u pannord ,1taEra Hantn
Two unknown men.
The injured are: :.
Charles Lichte, Knox county, Indi-
ana, hurt about head and internally; J;
Michael Ball, Louisville, KY, internal
injuries; William Brewer, baggage mas
ter Pan Handle train, left leg crushed
and internal Injuries; Paul serber,
newsboy, Gasport, Ind. right foot
crushed; James Eckenberry, Camden,
O., hurt about chest; Joseph Ball,
Louisville, KY, left leg crushed aud In
ternal injuries; William Richter, West
Forks, Ind, internal injuries; Joseph
Dillingslen, Clyde, O., legs crushed and
internal injuries.
The Pan. .Hannle train was the st.
Louis fast express which left the Chi
cago union depot at s a. m. The Fort
WAYNE train was q local accommodation
running between Valparaiso, Ind, and
this city.
There will certainly be an investiga-
ton to fix the blame for the terrible
loss OF life. At present there is dis
pute between the operator at Colhour
and tho general Office OF the road in the
city as to what the train orders were,
each trying to fasten the blame upon
the other.
A BLuNDER CAUSED 1T.
Another dispatch says: The acci-
dent which occurred near Colehour,
ILL.,, fourteen miles from this city, APP
pears to have been the result Of q
blunder inexcusable by even the rail-
road officials. The trains were ached-
uled to pass south on q single track be-
tween Colehour. ILL.,, and Hammond,
Ind. At the same time train was
due north on the same track. II was
arranged to give the north-bound train
which carried milk and way passengers
from Valparaiso, Ind, the right Of way,
and it was ordered to proceed toward
Chicago, and did SO at the rate OF thir.
~ miles an hour. In the meantime
trains No. 100 and II, the latter the
Panhandle limited express, were sup
posed to have been held on the double
track at Colehour to await the passage
OF No. As, the milk train. Orders were
given to operator at Colehour, to hold
No. 100, but nothing was said to him
about No. u. He obeyed orders and No.
y was allowed to clear upon the
single track on its schedule time, run.
ning forty miles an hour, directly
toward the milk train, which had also
been given the right OF way in an oppo'
site direction on the same track. The
Pan Handle express had proceeded but
short distance when the milk train
was sighted ahead. Next the two
trains, scarcely Stacking in speed in the
short distance, dashed into each other,
The engine crews saved their lives by
jumping before the two locomotives
came together with crash that wreck
ed them both and drove the baggage
car Of the Panhandle train completely
through the smoking car behind 1t. In
this car were about forty people, and in
1t the loss Of life occurred.
THE MISTAKEN ORDER.
The Louisville express train No. L
left Chicago this morning. At Cole
hour 1T stopped for orders, and in &C
cordance with those received started on
over the single track. Train Dispatcher
0. X. Kennedy, at Colehour, had before
Its arrival received the following dis
patch from the train dispatcher's office
at Fort Wayne, Ind: -,
Number ono hundred and sixty (l60l
will wait at GelehoaF until $40 q. M
Tor number 40 ahead OF time"
(Signed) &c. D. L"
There was no order for train No. IL,
and Kennedy made no effort to stop It,
In the meantime tho Valparaiso &c
commodation, carrying milk, with 0
number OF passengers, was approach
Ing from the south at high speed, con-
siderAbly ahead OF time. The express,
running forty miles an hour over
level country had reached point
about 800 yards from curve
Wien suddenly from behind q
e'ump OF trees there burst in view the
accommodation train running at Q
speed almost as great. Tho crew ol
each engine sighted the other train and
IS quickly as possible the levers OF both
heAVy engines were reversed and the
VT brakes applied. The efforts Of the