The evening world., 1893-09-19
EIGHT PEOPLE DEAD.
And Twenty Injured in a Wreck
on the Illinois Central.
Second Section Of an Express
Crashes Into the First.
a "Dead q" sleeper Telescoped-was
an Engineer Asleep?

CHICAGO. Sept. l9-Eight people were
killed and twenty injured by a fearful
rear-end collision between two sections
OF the big Four" train known as No.
40 near the village OF Manteno, II few
miles north OF Kankakee. on the line
OF the Illionis Central Railway. late last
night.
The list OF dead reported at the Illinois
Central headquarters In this city is as
follows:
EMIL KIMMELL. Dayton, O.
j. W. POWELL. New Vienna. o.
l.. L. SWEET. Louisville, Ky.
DAVID JACKSON. Carmel. ..
MINNIE DIVERS. Lower Alba ny.
Ind.
CHARLES DECKENDASHER TWEEN
ty years old. Columbus. o.
JACOB SIMPSON, blacksmith, Column
bus. o.
Miss O. EDWARDS. Chicago.
The injured are:
Belleson. blanche. sinking Springs, o., limbs
badly bruised; Bionton, L.. H., CIncnnati. fatal
Brown, James w, Wilmington. D.. internal and
head; Brown. Mrs James W., internal injuries
Coweils. Anna Lower Albany. Ind. Evans. Will
Miss sailie. Poweliton. internr injuries; Foster.
J. w. Springfield. o.. scalp wound and eye
gouged Foster. Mrs. J. W, ribs broken. in
ternal and probably fatal: Gsllatin Mrs. Emma.
Columbus. o.. back and limbs bruised: GRllatin.
Miss f.. Columbus, o.. limbs bruised: Jackson.
Miss Lbbic. Cynthiana, o., internal and other
injuries. probably fatal: Kimmei, Mrs Chris.
Dayton, o. head and body injured: Means }.
W. Chester, =. C.. slightly injured back and
head; Morse Jessie. Cincinnati. badly injured
internally: Patton. Olive. Carmel. o.. body
bruised: Shelter. ALDER, jay. Ripley. o.. badly
cut face and head. probably fatal: Templston,
Emily, Sinking Springs o., head and body; Wise
hart. c. b., Frankfort, o. internal injury; Biain.
william. Indianapolis, Ind. internal injuries and
cuts around head and face.
The accident happened in this way:
An Illinois Central passenger train
had stopped 10 take water at q tank q
+ quarter Of a mile north of Manteno.
The first section Of train No. 45 came
tosh Stop. bur 1t is said that no flagman
was sent back to nag the second sec
or three miles. and il a fisgmsn had
been sent back the engineer of the sec
ond section could not have failed to see
him.
on the other hand. 1t is said the en-
gineer OF the second train was asleep
and that the fireman was throwing coal
into the firebox.
train ahead of them just in time TO
jump, They had narrow escape for
their lives.
The first section left Chicago about
minutes later by the second section. e
There was a dead" sleeper on the
rear end OF the first train, or. In other
words. the car was empty. The car
I ahead OF It was the day coach. and con-
tained some forty or fifty passengers.
The second section OF the train crashed
! into the dead" sleeper. driving II for
ward through the day coach. 1t com.
! pletely te,escoped the car from end &c
end.
| The wreck was the worst that has &C.
CURED on the Illinois Central system fol-
| twenty years.
One Of the pitiful sights around the
! wreck was the grief OF Mrs. Chris Kim.
| mel. herself probably fatally injured.
| When she was Jescued the light OF the
lantern shone ON the features of heI
husband who. had been killed by hel
side. She WIS SO badly crushed shl
could scarcely make sound. but thi
words she-tould articulate were tearfu
appeals to the rescuers and nursev te
find her husbands body.
/ She knew he was dead, but feared tho
cars would catch fire and his body b.