The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-08
A FRIGHTFIIL ACCIDENT.
Caused by laundering Train
Dispatcher.
TWO TRAINS TELESC0PED.
Twelve Persons Killed and Many
Wounded.
Ordered to Pass on Single Track-List
of the Dead and Wounded-The
Crews and Operators
Under Arrest.

CHICAGO, Sept. IA blunder made in
the office of the train dispatcher Of the
Pennsylvania railroad bore fruit in the
loss OF twelve lives and the injury of a score
OF people. The accident, which occurred
near Colehour, only fourteen miles from
this city, appears to be the result of an
inexcusable blunder. The two trains
were scheduled to pass south on a
single track between Colehour and Hum
mond, Ind, at the same time the train
was due north on the same track. Or
ders were given the operator at Colehour
for two Of the trains, but none for the
through express train, which left this
city about 8 O'Clock, which was allowed
to enter the single track, running at the
rate of forty miles an hour, directly to-
ward the milk train, which had been
given the right Of way in an op-
po5ite direction on the same track.
The Panhandle express had proceeded
but short distance when the collision
occurred. The engine crews saved their
lives by jumping before the two locomo-
tlves came together with crash that
wrecked them and drove the baggage car
of the Panhandle express completely
through the smoking car behind it. In
this car were about forty people, and in il
the loss of life occurred.
Following is a list of the killed and ins
jured:
DEAD.
CHESTER E. COFFIN, Carthage, Ind.
A. s. TEMPLE, manager Schiller thea
tire, Chicago.
EMIL GoDoNRATH.
E. NJ. RIGNY, travelling freight agent
Wisconsin Central railway.
MICHAEL VALE. Louisville. ky
j. d. ADAMS, Fairfield, Ill.
F. M. BoMBARD, Terre Haute, Ind
F. D. FLEMING, Fairfield, Ill.
w. r. RICHARDSON, Chicago.
ALBERT HEINZ, VincenDes, Ind.
WILLIAM SHoNICKER, New Albany
Ind.
An unknown man, supposed to be
tramp.
INJURED.
WILLIAM RICHTER, Edwardsport, Ind,
WILLIAM BREWER, baggage master Of
the Louisville train.
JOSEPH VALE, Louisville, KY.
CLAUD DERBER, train neWsboy.
HERMAN LIGHTER, Freelandsville, Ind.
HARRY KLEIN, Vincennes, Ind.
w. A. HILL, Concierge, Ind; may die.
HENRY RoGENMEYER, Sanburn, Ind.
JOHN BRIsCoE, Logausport, Ind.
W. H TURNER, Chicago.
CASPER MEYER, Vincennes, Ind.
WILLIAM BELLINGsERA, Clyde, o.
JOSEPH ECHMBoM, Camden, o.
When the engineers of the colIiding
trains sighted each other coming round
a curve they made every effort to check
the trains, but with little effect, and when
about 100 yards from each other jumped.
The scenes around the wreck were
agonizing. The dead and wounded were
pinned down in such manner that be-
fore the Wreckage train arrived it was al
most impossible to extract any of the
bodies. In the meantime the cries of the
dying were terrible to hear. Blood from
the mangled ones soaked its way down
ward and made puddles of red sand. Ont
side, through fragments of clothes, could
be seen arms and legs, mangled heads
and discolored bodies.
Arson Temple of Chicago, one of the
killed, was manager OF the Schiller
theatre, and one of the best known young
rnen in the city. Tonight the crew of
both trains and a. B. Kennedy, the
operator at Colehour, were placed under
arrest pending an inquest.